Capsicum. | XCI. SOLANACE (WRIGHT). 253 
nodding. thickened upwards. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-6-angled; teeth 
5-6, short, obtuse, thickened at the apex. Corolla yellowish or dirty 
white, usually 6-fid; lobes ovate, subacuminate, inflexed at the apex. 
Ovary ovoid, rounded at the apex, glabrous; style thickened upwards ; 
stigma obtuse. Berry ovoid-rotundate, cordate and surrounded at the 
base by the enlarged calyx, shining scarlet or yellow, 3- (rarely 2-) celled. 
—Fingerhuth, Monogr. Capsic. 29, t. 9, figs. c~e ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. i. 427 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i.751. C. annuum, var. cordi- 
forme, Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 148. (. sp., Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 233. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6065! Mubango, Welwitsch, 
6067! at Quilombo between Camama and Calumbo, Welwitsch, 6047! Golungo 
Alto, Welwitsch, 6097 ! 
5. DISCOPODIUM, Hochst. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 893. 
Calyx shortly and broadly campanulate, scarcely accrescent, 5- 
toothed. Corolla urceolate ; tube ovoid ; lobes 5, short, patent, indupli- 
cate-valvate in bud. Stamens inserted above the middle of the corolla- 
tube ; filaments short, filiform ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
2-celled ; styleshort ; stigma peltate; ovulesnumerous. Berry globose 
Seeds much compressed, immersed in pulp; embryo near the circum- 
ference, much curved ; cotyledons semiterete.—A sbrub or small tree. 
Leaves entire. Flowers rather small in axillary fascicles. 
Monotypic, endemic. 
1. D. penninervium, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 22. A shrub or 
small tree, 15-20 ft. high. Leaves alternate or geminate, oblong- 
elliptic, acuminate, acute at the base, glabrous or slightly puberulous, 
up to 8 in. long and 4 in. wide; petiole about 1 in. long.  Fascicles 
many-flowered; peduncles about 5 lin. long. Calyx 1} lin. in diam. ; 
teeth broadly triangular. Corolla puberulous outside, } in. long, 
white or yellowish ; lobes nearly } as long as the tube, oblong, sub- 
obtuse. Filaments 1 lin. long; anthers oblong, 1 lin. long. Ovary 
conical; style terete, hairy; stigma ? lin. in diam.—Dunal in DC. 
Prodr, xiii, i, 478. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 
Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1236! 2178! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Ghaba Valley, Steudner, 914! near Bahara, Schimper, 
917! and without exact locality, Quartin-Dillon § Petit, 224! Uganda: West 
Ankole forest, 5000 ft:, Dawe, 409 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Masuka Plateau, 
6500-7000 ft., Whyte ! 
300! Cameroons; Cameroon 
6. LYCIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 900. 
Calyx campanulate or tubular, truncate or irregularly 3—5-toothed, 
hot or but slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped, 
campanulate or urceolate; tube short or long, often swollen at the 
throat ; lobes 4-5, flat, imbricate, patent. Stamens 4-9, inserted in 
the corolla-tube, included or exserted ; filaments filiform, often dilated 
