Solanum. | XCI. SOLANACEA (WRIGHT). 245 
96. S. congense, Link, Hnum. i. 187. Stem tomentose; spines 
straight, } in. long. Leaves ovate, sinuate, tapering into the petiole, 
6 in. long, 5 in. wide, tomentose, spiny on the midrib. Peduncle many- 
flowered, thick, much shorter than the pedicels. Calyx 4 in. long, 
tomentose ; lobes obtuse. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, blue; lobes tomen- 
tose outside. Anthers distinct, equal. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, ex Link. 
97. S. Crepini, Van Heurck, Obs. Bot. 89. A shrub, armed iu 
all its parts with stout straight prickles. Branches terete, with short 
deciduous hairs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, sinuately lobed, acute, trun- 
cate and unequal at the base, 2—4 in. long, clothed with numerous short 
stellate hairs and bearing straight spines on both surfaces. Cyme heli- 
coid ; basal flower hermaphrodite, the others male. Calyx } in. long, 
5-partite; lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 7 lin. long, 
‘-lobed. Stamens 5; anthers } in. long, subsessile. Ovary conical ; 
style slightly longer than the stamens. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieder. 
38. S. Hildebrandtii, 4. Br. & Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 
1874, 18; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 325, name only. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Ahl Mountains, Hildebrandt, 865 ; Maid, Hilde- 
brandt, 1412. 
Native name “ Aio.” 
99. S. macilentum, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 105. A spiny 
shrub. Branches slender, ashy-tomentose; spines compressed, re- 
curved. Leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, subentire or 
slightly sinuate, thinly membranous, pilose, petioled. Cymes lateral on 
a long peduncle, usually 2-forked, many-tlowered, tomentose ; flowers 
polygamous, the basai on each branch hermaphrodite and long-pedicelled. 
Calyx unarmed, obsoletely 5-toothed. Corolla-lobes oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, tomentose outside. Anthers uniform. Berry globose, glabrous, 
fusiform. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Shoho, Quarlin Dillon, 
100. S, pruinosun, var. pilosulum, Dunal in DC. Prodi. xiii. 1. 
99. Herbaceous. Branches finely white pruinose. Leaves cuneate- 
thomboid, 2-3 in. long, about 1 in. wide, almost glabrcus above, 
Minutely white hairy beneath. Racemes 6—7-flowered. Peduncle, 
pedicels, calyx and corolla hispid with short white hairs. Corolla white, 
5-fid, 5 lin. wide. Anthers conniving, dehiscing by two apical slits. 
Berry globose, size of a pea. 
Nile Land. Sennar, Acerbi. 
101. S. setaceum, Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. BOB. A 
shrub. Branches slender, densely covered with sete about 4 11. Jong, 
deciduous except at the hardened base. Leaves ovate, cordate. 1 in. 
