250 XCI. SOLANACEA (WRIGHT). | Withania. 
Bero, Welwitsch, 6027 b.! German South-west Africa; Amboland; Kunkiyeo, 
Schinz, 404! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 3564; 
Uhehe; Ruaha River, Goetze, 473! british Central Africa: North Nyasaland, 
Whyte! Matabeleland: Tati River drift, Holub ! 
Also in the drier subtropical parts of India, Arabia, Persia, and in the Mediter- 
ranean region, the Canaries, and South Africa. 
2. W. Holstii, Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 351, Stem erect, 
flexuose, tomentose. Leaves lanceolate or oval, acute or acuminate, 
6 in. long, 2? in. wide, at first pubescent above, at length glabrous, 
white tomentose beneath ; petiole 7-9 lin. long, tomentose. Pedicels 
4-7 lin. long, clustered. Calyx cupular, sub-5-lobed, puberulous ; lobes 
obtuse. Corolla three times as large as the calyx, 4 in. long, campanu- 
late, 5-lobed, tomentose outside above the calyx; lobes lanceolate. 
Stamens short; filaments very short; anthers cordate-ovoid, 1 lin. 
long. Ovary globose ; style cylindrical, 14 lin. long; stigma sub- 
globose. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa; Usambara; Magamba, Holst, 3843. 
3. W. aristata, Paug. Diss. Bellad. 15. A shrub; branches 
slightly angled, when young hirsute with yellow hairs. Leaves solitary 
or geminate, ovate-oblong, acuminate, nearly glabrous, green and 
somewhat shining above, green and pubescent or white and tomentose 
beneath, the lower (including the petiole) nearly 1 ft. long by 4 in- 
wide, the upper 2—5 in. long by }-14 in. wide; primary nerves 5-9 each 
side. Pedicels 1 to several in subaxillary fascicles, filiform, $ in. long- 
Calyx cup-shaped, 5-angled, } in. long, } in. wide, acerescent, sub- 
puberulous ; lobes filiform, aristate, }-} in. long. Corolla campanulate, 
yellow, 6-7 lin. long, deeply lobed; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
stellately hairy outside. Filaments short, dilated at the base ; anthers 
ovate-oblong, longer than the filaments, yellow. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; 
style filiform. Berry globose, subsulcate. Seeds subreniform, scrobicu- 
late.—Webb & Berthel. Phyt. Canar. iii. iii. 284, t. 175; Dunal m 
DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 456, 686; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 118, and Glied. 
Veg. Usambara, 69. Physalis aristata, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 244. 
ee aristata, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. i. 609; G. Don, Gen. Syst. 1v- 
D6. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa; Usambara, in woods above 5500 ft.. 
ex Engler. 
Also in the Canary Islands. 
4. CAPSICUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 892. 
Calyx shortly campanulate, truncate or with 5 teeth or sete, 
accrescent. Corolla subrotate, 5-partite; lobes valvate. Stamens 9%, 
inserted near the corolla-base ; filaments filiform ; anthers shorter than 
or about as long as the filaments, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk small. 
Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled; style filiform ; stigma more or less clavate ; 
ovules many. Berry from small and globose to large and conical or 
almost linear. Seeds compressed, rugose or nearly smooth; embryo 
