﻿Solanum.] solanace^ (WrigLt). 95 



or ovate oblong, 9 in. by 3| in., velvety with stellate hairs on the 

 upper surface, acuminate, cuneate at the base; petiole 1} in. long; 

 young axillary leaves semicircular, recurved and resembling stipules ; 

 inflorescence terminal, corymbose; peduncle 4 in. long; calyx-tube 

 campanulate, l} lin. long ; lobes triangular, obtuse, 1 lin. long ; 

 corolla violet, glabrous inside, 6 lin. in diam. ; tube 1 lin. long; 

 lobes triangular, acute; filaments very short; anthers 1^ lin. long, 

 oblong, obtuse, dehiscing by two oblique apical pores ; ovary densely 

 clothed with straight simple hairs ; style much overtopping the 

 stamens, clavate at the apex ; fruit globose, 8 lin. in diam. Diinal, 

 Sol. Sijn. 17, andinBC. Prod. xiii. i. 115; Sendtner in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. X. 40; Baker, Fl. Maur. 215; Hemsl. Biol. Amer. Centr. 

 ii. 405. S. tabaccifoUum, Veil. Fl. Flum. ii. t. 89, 



Eastern Rfgion : Natal ; edge of hush near Durban, 100 ft., Wood, 119 I 

 1298 ! and without precise locality. Cooper, 1222 ! 



Also in the Mascarene Islands, and Central and South Tropical Americii. 



/ 13. S. aculeastrum (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 366) ; a shrub ; 

 / branches terete, densely white stellate tomentose when young, 

 glabrous and dark brown in age ; spines many, up to 7 lin. long, 

 curved, very sharp, laterally eompre-sed, tomentose at the broad 

 base ; leaves 3|- in. by 2^ in., somewhat deltoid in general outline, 

 irregularly sinuately lobed, more or less spiny on both surfaces, 

 glabrous and green above, densely pubescent with white stellate 

 hairs beneath, acute, more or less unequal at the base; peduncle 

 short ; lowest flower of cyme alone fertde ; calyx 5 lin. long, cup- 

 shaped, stellately tomentose outside, spiny ; lobes triangular, acute ; 

 corolla deeply 5-partite, stellately tomentose outside, more sparingly 

 so inside; lobes oblong, 8 lin. by 3 lin.; filaments short; anthers 

 oblong-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, with 2 small apical pores ; style 5 lin. 

 long, sulcate ; berry globose, smooth, If in. in diam. S. sodoiiueum, 

 Brkje, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 147, not of Linn. 



Coast Region: Cape Div. ; Xewlands, near Cape Town, 5oZ(w, 47.">t! W-'Hey 

 -Docf, 409! Kloof near the Rouudliouse, near Cape Town, Wilms, 345d ! Koudc- 

 bosch, BarUy! George Div. ; entrance to Montagu Pass, Lady Barkly ! and 

 without precise localiry, Frihat ! Konigha Div. ; margins of woods near Komglia, 

 2003 ft., Flanagan, 1290 I 



Kastern Region: Tembuland; between Ba;,hec River and Morlcy, 1000- 

 2o00 it., Drige .' 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



1 14. S. snpinum (Dunal in DC Prod. xiii. i. 289); stem woody; 

 /branches terete, with scattered stellate hair.s when young ; spines on 

 '^ stem and leaves straight, subulate from a broad base, up to 4 lin. 

 long; leaves 2 in. by Ii in., deeply sinuately and obtusely lobed, 

 Avith scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces ; petiole short ; flowers 

 solitary ; peduncles short, thick, erect in flower, cernuous in fruit ; 

 calyx shortly campanulate, 2 lin. in diam., spiny and stellately hairy 

 outside, enlarging in fruit; lobes ovate-triangnlar, acute; corolla 



