Withania. | XCI. SOLANACEE (WRIGHT). 249 
serted near the corolla-base; filaments slightly flattened; anthers 
erect ; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk annular, crenulate 
or none. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma shortly and widely 
2-lamellate or subglobose ; ovules many. Berry globose, shorter than 
the enlarged calyx. Seeds compressed ; embryo near the margin, and 
incurved or spiral; cotyledons semiterete.—Hoary shrubs, loosely 
tomentose, woolly or glabrescent. Leaves entire or slightly sinuate. 
Flowers usually fascicled, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, medium- 
sized. 
Species about 5, extending from Southern Europe and Western Asia through 
North Africa, the Canary Islands, and South Africa. 
Pedicels 3-2 lin. long : : . : - 1. W. somnifera. 
Pedicels 4—7 lin. long 
Calyx-lobes obtuse . . . . . : - 2. W, Holsti. 
Calyx-lobes filiform, aristate . ; . . - 3. W. aristata. 
1. W. somnifera, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 453. An erect 
much-branched shrub, 3-4 ft. high. Stem terete, tomentose. Leaves 
ovate, obovate or oblong, obtuse, tapering towards the base, entire or 
very slightly sinuate, variable in size, averaging 24 by 1 in., more or 
less tomentose on both surfaces; petiole 4 in. long, tomentose, chan- 
nelled above. Flowers 4—6 in axillary fascicles; pedicels 2 lin. long in 
flower, elongating afterwards. Calyx 1 lin. in diam., campanulate, 
densely tomentose outside; lobes 5, lanceolate. Corolla 24 lin. long, 
divided nearly to the middle into 5 triangular lobes. Filaments inserted 
near the corolla-base, 14 lin. long, filiform ; anthers oval, } lin. long. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style shorter than the stamens. Berry globose, 
glabrous, tin. in diam., enclosed in the much inflated calyx. Seeds 
compressed.— Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 287; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 239; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 333; Engl. PH. Ost-Afr. C. 
351, and Glied. Fl. Usamb. 39; C. H. Wright in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. ii. 
107. W.? arborescens, Dunal, l.c. 455. Physalis somnifera, Linn. Sp. 
Pl. ed. 1, 182; Sibth. Fl. Greea, t. 233; var. communis, Nees in 
Linnea, vi. 455; var. flexuosa, Nees, l.c. 454; Wight, Ic. t. 853. 
P. tomentosa. Thunb. Prodr. 37, and Fl. Cap. ed. Sehult. 191. - 
arborescens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 261. Hypnoticum somniferum, Rodrig. 
Me Dunal, l.c. 453. Physaloides somnifera, Moench, Meth. 473; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw, i. 752. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Cape Palmas, Vogel, 35! Norihern Nigeria : 
Kuka on Lake Chad, Vogel, 58! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Singat, Schweinfurth, 218! Merowa, Broomfield, 21! 
Fashoda, Muriel, 97! Bahr el Jebel, Broun, 35! Darfur, Purdy, 125! Kordofan, 
Pfund, 106! Kotschy, 374! Eritrea, Schweinfurth, 1065! Abyssinia, Roth, 453 
(86)! Quartin-Dillon §- Petit, 234! Somalilend : Zafarug, James s° Thrupp! 
Uganda: various localit'es, Speke & Grant, 664! Whyte! Scott-Elliot, 1277 « 
Dawe, 316! Brown, 271! British East Africa; Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6315! 
Kibwezi River, Késsner, 688 ! Shimoni, Whyte! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopolla, Welwitsch, 6025! Benguella ; 
near the mouth of the River Cavaco, Welwitsch, 6027! Mossamedes, by the River 
