﻿94 soLWiACEiE (Wright). [Solamivi. 



10. S. bifircum (Hoehst. in Flora, 1841, i. Tntell. 24); stem 

 sarmento«e, glabrous, smooth ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, sparingly pilose, pale green, membranous ; petiole 

 short ; cymes terminal, many-flowered, umbellate, racemosely arranged ; 

 calyx cyathiform, 5-fid, more or less glandular ; corolU o-partite ; 

 segments oblong, acute, 3-4 times as long as the calyx, tomentose 

 outside, glabrous within ; stamens 5 ; anthers yellow, dehiscins by 

 oblique pores near the apex ; stigma punctiform ; berry small, 

 globose. Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 77 ; JEngl Pfl. Ost-Afr. C 

 352. S. hifurcatum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 98. 



Ea^teen Ekgion : Natal; Tnanda, Wood, 559! without precise locality, 

 Gerrard, 1413! Gerrard ^ McKen, 502! Cooper, 2813! Zululaud; Esliowe, 

 Mrs. Saunders, 9 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



11. S. giganteum (.Jaeq. Coll. iv. 125) ; a tree, 15 ft. high ; stem 

 erect, as thick as the arm ; branches ashy grey, terete, armed with 

 short conical broad-based spines ; leaves unarmed, lanceolate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous above, white tomen- 

 tose beneath, up to 6 in. by 2 in. ; veins pinnate, moderately close 

 together ; petiole about 1 in. long, stellately hairy ; cymes pseudo- 

 terminal, corymbose, unarmed, many-flowered ; pedicels erect in 

 fruit ; calyx campanulate in flower, saucer-shaped in fruit, densely 

 white tomento=e outside, 2 lin. long; lobes as long as the tube, 

 triangular ; corolla violet-purple, rotate, 5 lin. in diam. ; lobes 

 oblong, acute, stellately white hairy outside in bud ; filaments very 

 short; anthers 1} lin. long, oblong, with small terminal pores; 

 style much longer than the anthers, curved at the apex ; berry globo.«e, 

 3 lin. in diam., shining red. Ic. t 328 ; Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Bocumente, m , lU, 149; Bot. Mag. t. 1921; Wight, Ic. t. 8 9S ; 

 Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 258 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. lad. iv. 233 ; 

 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 226. S. niveum, Thunb. Prodr. 36, 

 and Fl. Cap. ed. iSchult. 189. S. argentetm, Beyne ex Dunal, I.e., 

 mt of Dunal S. favinosum, Wall. Cat. 2610; Eoxh. Fl. Lid. ed. 

 Carey, ii. 255. 



South Africa : without locality, Thom, 629 ! 630 ! Pappe ! 



Coast Region: Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., Drege .' Knysna 

 Div.; Ruigte Vallei, iiuder 500 ft., Drege! Humansdorp Div. ; in woods afc 

 Es.-^eubosch in Lunge Kloof, Thunherg ! between Gamtoos River and Van t-tadens 

 River, BoJus, 2407! Uiteuhage Div. ; Van dtadeosberg Pass, MacOwan, 1460 ! 

 1 ort Elizabeth Div. ; at and near the Lmd-mine, Bmchell, 4495 ' Albany Div. ; 

 PerieBu8h, Kuntze f near Gralvunstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1460! Hovvisons 

 loort, Baur, 1040! and witliout precise locality, Zeyher, 903 ! 



Eastekn Hegiox: Pondoland ; between Cmtata' River and St. Johns 

 River, 1000-2000 ft., Drege ! 



AUo in Tropical Africa and Tropical Asia. 



12. S. auriculatum (A.it. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 246) ; an unarmed 

 shrub, 15 ft. high; branches, inflorescence, petiole and underside of 

 leaves densely covered Avith stellate floccose tomentum ; leaves ovate 



