Datura. | XCI. SOLANACEE (WRIGHT). 257 
samb. Bot. 231; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356; Kirtikar in Journ. Bomb. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. 20, t. U.—D. “gyptia, Ves. Pl. Aigypt. 202. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: near Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1235! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: throughout the Mozambique 
district, ex Peters, 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
Var, alba, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 243. A larger plant than 
the type; corolla quite white ; capsule with shorter spines.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 753. D. alba, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc, xvii. 73; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. i. 541; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 334; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 356. D. fastuosa, 
Welw. Apont, Phyto-Geogr. 551, not of Linn. 
Upper Guinea. (old Coast: near Accra, Moloney ! 
Nile Land. Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 7288! British East Africa: near Mazeras, 
300 ft. Kaessner, 280! Witu, Thomas, 154! 
Lower Guinea. Banana, at the mouth of the Congo, Monteiro! Angola: 
Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6061! Loando; Imbondeiro dos Lobos, Welwitsch, 6042! 
shore of Cazanga Island, Welwitsch, 6043! Benguela; sea shore near Benguela, 
Welwitsch, 6028! Mossamedes; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 6029! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk, 64! Hildebrandt, 1196! British Central 
Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Kirk! Buchanun! Mount Chiradzulu and 
near Magomero, Meller ! 
3. D. inermis, Jacy. Hort. Vind. iii. 44, t. 82. Annual. Stem 
erect, 4 ft. high, branched, fistular, terete, glabrous. Leaves ovate, 
acute, incised-lobed; lobes acute ; petiole long. Flowers| shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx pentagonal, glabrous ; teeth 5. Corolla white, twice 
as long as the calyx; lobes 5, rounded, acutely cuspidate. Capsule 
Smooth, erect, 4-valved.—D. levis, Linn. f. Suppl. 146; Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 276. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, ex Linnaeus ; cultivated specimens ! 
4. D. Stramonium, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 179. A robust erect 
annual. Stem terete, smooth, dichotomously branched above. Leaves 
ovate, more or less coarsely toothed or lobed, up to 9 in. long and 34 in. 
Wide, acuminate, unequal at the base, flaccid, slightly hairy when young. 
Flowers erect in the forks of the branches ; pedicels short. Calyx 1} in. 
long, persistent at the base; teeth 5, triangular. Corolla 3-4 in. long, 
plicate in bud, tubular-funnel-shaped, white; lobes 9, spreading or 
recurved, acuminate. Stamens included. Ovary pyramidal, 4-lobed. 
Capsule about 2 in. long, erect, ovoid, thickly clothed with spines. 
Seeds about 4 in. long, reniform.—Dunal in DU. Prodr. xiii. i, 540; 
Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 163; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 88 ; 
Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. t. 192; C. B, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
iv. 242; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 753; Cummins in Kew 
Bulletin, 1898, 77 ; O. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 118. 
Upper Guinea. Ashanti: Assin yan Kumassi, Cummins, 8! Togo: near 
Lome, Warnecke, 364! Northern Nigeria ;: Kuka, on Lake Chad, Vogel, 56! 
Wile Lana. Nubia: Kotschy, 232! Bugdoo, above New Dongola, Bromfield, 
26! near New Dongola, Ehrenberg. Sennar : near Rosieres, Cienkowsky. oo : 
hear Matamma, Schweinfurth, 1369! 1370! Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
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