246 XCI, SOLANACEA (WRIGHT). [ Solanum. 
long, 7 lin. wide, stellately tomentose on both surfaces ; petiole about 
} in. long, stellately tomentose. Inflorescence extra-axillary ; peduncle, 
pedicels, and calyx stellately tomentose ; fruiting pedicels 3% in. long, 
incrassate at the apex. Calyx 5-partite ; segments linear-lanceolate, 1} 
lin. long in fruit. Corolla and stamens unknown. Berry brick-red, 
globose, + in. in diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: near the River Dehu, at the foot of 
Kilimanjaro, 3000 ft., Volkens, 2202. 
102. S. togoense, Dammer in Schlechter, West-Afr. Kautschuk- 
Exped. 312, name only. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: amongst climbing shrubs near Badja, Schlechter, 
12974. 
103, S. uncinatum, 2. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64; oem. 
& Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 669; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 376, name 
only. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Salt. 
104. S. usaramense, Dummer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 353. 
Branches woody, terete, slender, stellately tomentose ; spines numerous, 
sharp, recurved, less than 1 lin. long. Leaves elliptic, green and 
stellately pilose above, stellately tomentose and with scattered spines 
beneath ; petiole 4 in. long. Inflorescence extra-axillary ; pedicels 
stellately tomentose, spiny. Calyx cupular, 5-partite, stellately tomen- 
tose, spiny; lobes lanceolate. Corolla and stamens unknown. Berry 
globose, 5 lin. in diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. German Kast Africa: Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 7066. 
2. PHYSALIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 890. 
Calyx campanulate, or pyramidal, shortly or to the middle 5-lobed, 
enlarged in fruit, inflated, membranous, 5-angled or prominently 10- 
ribbed, often 5-auricled at the base; teeth conniving. Corolla sub- 
rotate or very widely campanulate, 5-angled or shortly and widely 
d-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted near the corolla-base ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers erect, usually shorter than the filaments; cells parallel, dehiscing 
longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma shortly 2-lobed ; 
ovules numerous. Berry globose, enclosed in and much smaller than 
the inflated calyx. Seeds many or few, smooth or slenderly tubercu- 
late-rugose, compressed ; embryo near the margin, curved ; cotyledons 
semiterete.— Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or more often clothed 
with simple or stellate hairs. Leaves entire, sinuate or more rarely 
pinnatifid. Flowers small, solitary, axillary, pedicellate, violet, yellow 
or white, often purple at the base. 
Species about 30, chiefly in the warmer parts of America. 
Anthers yellow . : : : : : : . L. P. minima. 
Anthers blue or violet. 
