﻿92 soLANACEiE (Wright). [Solamim, 



dehiscing bv longitudinal slits ; style curved, slightly longer than 

 the stamens". Thunh. Prodr. 3fi ; Fh Cap. ed. Schult. 188; Willd. 

 Sp. PL i. 1032 ; Bmial, Syn. Sol 13 ; Drege, Zioei Fflainengeogr. 

 JDocumente, 111, and in Linncea, xx. 203 ; DC- Prod. xiii. i. 77, 

 iiicl. vars. iniegrifolium, Dunal, and sinuaio-angulatum, Bunal. 



Coast Region -. Cape Div. ; Zekoe Valley and Hout Bay, Thunlerg I between 

 Cape Town and Stellenbosch, under 500 ft., Dreje! Diep River near Muizenberg, 

 100 ft., MacOican, Herh. Anst.-Ajr., 1930: by the railway at Muizenbtrg, 

 WMey Doci, 1018 ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Thunherg ! Uiten- 

 hage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, 50-500 ft., Zeyher, 3472; by Van Stadeus 

 River, in tbe forest near the ford, Burclxell, 466S ! and witliout precise locality, 

 Zeyher, 75 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, Burchell, i^Zll) ! near the 

 blockhouse, Port Eliznbeth, JBurchell, 4342 t at Krakttkamnia, Burchell, 4534! 

 at Cape Recife, Burchell, 4389! 



6. S. exasperatnm (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Doeumentej 158) ; a shrub ; stem rough ; branches slightly angular, 

 very rough, pilose towards the apex, blackish, " rough and pilose 

 with very numerous woody, usually hair-bearing, unequal poly- 

 morphic glands " ; leaves obovate, tapering into the petiole, 1|^-1 J in- 

 long (including the petiole), 9-11 lin. wide, obsoletely erose-toothed, 

 slightly revolute at the margins, thick, obtuse or rather acute, 

 em alginate or mucronate, intense green above, paler beneatli ; midrib 

 rather prominent ; petioles pubescent, rather rough, 2-4 lin. long, 

 rounded on the back, channelled on the face ; cymes terminal, sub- 

 umbellate, 5-7-flowered ; pednncles pilose ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, 

 thickened towards the apex, angular, glabrous ; calyx glabrous, rather 

 shiny, hemispherical, lj-1'2- Hn. in diam., 5-toothed; teeth acute, 

 mucronate ; mucro white-villous ; corolla 3-4 lin. in diam., deeply 

 5-lobed ; lohes ovate-lanceolate, acute, villous-ciliate on the margins ; 

 stamens uniform ; anthers orange-yellow, dark purple at the middle 

 outside, connivent, thick, scarcely 1 Jin. long, with 2 oblique apical 

 pores ; style longer than the stamens ; stigma bifid, thick. Dunal 

 in DO. Prod. xiii. i. 104. 



Easteen Region: Natal; between Umkoniunzi River and Umlazi River, 

 Drege, 1838 (ex Bunal). 



? 7. S. Aggerum (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 103) ; branches 

 / woody, scarcely angled, subterete, bearing minute glands, dull 

 greenish-brown, covered with scars ; branchJets herbaceous, winged 

 at the angles, glabrous, green ; leaves ovate, ovate-elliptic or ovate- 

 lanceolate, repand-undulate, obtuse or subacute, unequal and sub- 

 cordate or acute at the base, but always tapering into the petiole, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, 8-16 lin. long, 7-9 lin. wide, green above, 

 paler beneath; primary veins 3-4 pairs, as well as the midrib dark 

 purple and rather prominent beneath \ petiole winged, channelled 

 above, gibbous at the base, green, usually coloured, °2-4 lin. long ; 

 cymes corymbose or racemose, terminal, entirely glabrous, l.> in. 

 long; peduncle 7-8 lin. long; pedicels capillary, curved, slightly 

 thickened at the apex, articulated at the base, 3-4 lin. Ion" ; flowers 



