﻿Ctiscuta.] convolvulacej: (Baker & Wright), 87 



Central Begion : Somerset DIv. ; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 31/8 ! MacOwan, 

 1959! ' 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Sehmann, 5884 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Krelis Country, Bowker, 492 ! between Gi^kau 

 (Gcua) River and Bashee River, Drerie. 8037 ! Natal ; Noodsberg, Wood, 929 ! 

 and without precise locality, Cooper, 1134 ! 2782 ! 2783 : 2784 1 Gerrard. 



240! 



Order XCIV. SOLANACE-aE. 



(By C. H. Wright.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or slightly irregular. Calyx 4-5- 

 (rarely 6-7-) toothed or lobed ; lobes imbricate or valvate. Corolla 

 tubular, funnel-shaped, campanulate or rotate, sometimes plicate ; 

 lobes 4-6 (rarely 6-7), induplicate-valvate in bud, patent or more 

 rarely erect, equal or subequal. Stamens as many as the corolla- 

 lobes, rarely fewer, inserted in the corolla-tube ; filaments short or 

 long ; anthers distinct or conniving in a cone, cells parallel or 

 diverging, dehiscing by terminal or oblique pores or longitudinal 

 slitg. Disk annular, entire or lobed or absent. Ovary superior, 

 sessile or shortly stipitate, 2-5-celled ; style terminal, filiform ; 

 stigma terminal, small or slightly expanded and bilamellate ; ovules 

 numerous, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit an indehiscent berry, 

 or a capsule dehiscing by valves or circumscissile. Seeds numerous, 

 email ; albumen fleshy ; embryo often terete, near the outside 

 of the albumen ; cotyledons semiterete, rarely wider than the 

 radicle. 



Herbs, erect or climbing shrubs, more rarely trees, glabrous, pubescent or 

 stellately toaientose, sometimes spiny; leaves alternate, geminate or verticillate, 

 entire or variously divided; inflorescence cymose, terminal, leaf-opposed or 

 extra-axillary, sometimes appearing umbellate or fasciculate or reduced to one 

 flower. 



DiSTRiB. Genera about 66, species about 1400, absent only from arctic and 

 alpiue regions, very abundant in tropical and extra- tropical South America. 



* Fruit baccate. 

 t Anthers dehiscing by pores (in the South African species). 

 I. Solanum.' — Only South African genus. 



tt Anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits. 

 X Calyx much enlarged in fruit. 

 II. Physalis.— Herbs ; flowers solitary ; corolla rotate or widely campanu- 

 late, plicate; ovary 2-celled. 



III. Withania.— A s^hrub ; flowers fascicled; corolla narrowly campanulate; 



valvate; ovary 2-ceJle(i, 



IV. Nicandra.— A herb: flowers solitary; corolla widely campanulate, 



plicate; ovary 3-t-celled. 



XX Calyx not or but slightly enlarged in fruit. 

 V. Lytium.— Ouly South African geuus. 



** Fruit capsular. 

 ■j- Leaves alternate. 



