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one, nor venture to describe as new in the present state of con- 
fusion which prevails among the five or six hundred species of 
the genus. 
3. Solanum distichum, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 122 ?— 
Accra, Ansell; a single small specimen, allied to the last- 
mentioned species of Vogel’s, but shrubby, and bears a single 
small prickle. 
4. Solanum Melongena, Linn.—N. ab E. Linn. Trans. 17. 
P. 48.—Common in cultivated grounds. 
The native country of this, the Bringall or Aubergine, is 
doubtful, it being in universal cultivation and frequently natu- 
ralized all over the Tropics, as well as in Southern and some 
parts of Central Europe. The S. edule and S. Atropa of 
Schum. et Thonn., are probably very near it, if not mere 
varieties, 
5. Solanum anomalum, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 126.— 
Grand Bassa, Cape Palmas, and Fernando Po, Vogel ; Sierra 
Leone, Don. 
Vogel says that the flowers are nodding, and usually penta- 
merous, although sometimes tetramerous, as described by Thon- 
ning. "The berries scarlet and erect. 
Two other species of Solanum, from Guinea, are published by 
Schum. et Thonn., under the names of S. dasyphyllum, and 
S. geminifolium. 
LXXX. ScROPHULARINEJE. 
l. Schwenckia Americana, Linn.— Benth. in DC. Prod. 10. 
P. 194.—Sierra Leone, Cape Coast, and on the Quorra, 
Vogel, Don; Senegambia, and common in East Tropical 
America. 
One species of Linaria, L. spartioides, Brouss., is found at 
Cape Verd, within the extreme northern limits of Senegambia. 
l. Alectra Vogelii, Benth., in DC. Prod. 10. p. 339.—On the 
Quorra, at Patteh, Vogel. Flowers yellow. 
The Alectra Senegalensis, Benth., is confined to Senegal. 
