﻿98 soLANACE-E (WHght). [Solaiium. 



Eastern Begion : Nubal ; near Durban, under 500 ft,, Brege, Beie% near 

 Durban, Cooper, 1272! 1273 ! and without precise locality, Geriurd, 2do] 



19. S. dupIosiiiTiatiiiii (Klotzseh in Peters, Raise Mossamb. Bot. 

 233); suffrnticose ; stem covered with stellate hairs and straight 

 spines 3 lin. long ; leaves subsessile, bi- to tri-pinnatifid, 8 in. long, 

 5 in. broad, with straight spines 6 lin. long on both surfaces of the 

 principal veins, upper surface with simple straight hairs, under 

 svirface with stellate hairs ; cymes racemose, few-flowered ; flowers 

 5-merous ; calyx campanulate, spiny, clothed with long-rayed 

 stellate hairs ; lobes lanceolate-subulate ; corolla mauve, broadly 

 campanulate, 16-18 lin. in di;^m. ; filaments very short ; anthers 

 3 lin. long, oblong, attenuate, and with 2 small pores at the apex ; 

 ovary globose ; style as long as the stamens ; fruit globose, 1|- m. in 

 diam., "white in the upper third, green at the base, with many 

 green branching lines from base to apex" (Wood). Ear/1. Pfl. Od- 

 Afr. G. 354 ; Wood, Natal PL i. 39, t. 49. S. Farini, Dammann in 

 Wien. 111. Gartz. 1896, 405,^1^. 59. 



Eastern Eegion: Natal; Berea, near Durban, Cooper, 127-i! and without 

 precise locality, Gerrard, 294 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. Berries used as a remedy for ringworm (Wood). 



20. S. acanthoideum (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Documente, 159); branches herbaceous ? brown, hirsute with stellate 

 hairs; spines few, scarcely 1 lin. long, subulate, straight, acute, 

 yellowish-brown, polished ; leaves sinuately pinnatifid, the lobes 

 gradually decreasing in size downwards, 7-8 in. long, 5-6 lin. wide, 

 tapering into the petiole, green and hirsute with adpressed simple 

 gland-based hairs above, pale reddish and hirsute with adpressed 

 stellate hairs beneath, bearing straight subulate compressed yellow 

 spines 3-4 lin. long on both sides ; petiole 5-7 lin. long, subterete, 

 stellately hirsute, spiny ; cymes racemose, few-flowered, stellately 

 hirsute ; upper flowers sterile ; calyx cup-shaped, stellately pilose, 

 spiny, accresceot; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute; berry globose, 1 in. 

 in diam., yellow ; seeds obovoid -elliptic, scrobiculate, subcompressed, 

 14 lin. long, pale chestnut. Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 364. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; in woods and forests near Durban, Drege, 4862. 



The corolla of this species has not been de3cribed, but its other characters 

 much resemble those of S. duplosinuatum, Klotzseh. 



; 21. S. didymanthum, var. pluriflorum (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 



/ i. 290) ; branches minutely glandular verrucose ; spines few, conical, 

 -^-1 lin. long, dull brown ; leaves up to 3^ in. by 2|- in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, sinuately 5-7-lobed ; lobes acute, 

 stellately hairy on both surfaces, more densely so beneath ; cymes 

 at length racemose, 4-S-flowered ; pedicels 6 lin. long, thickened 

 upwards, stellately hairy ; calyx 5-partite, stellately \airy ; lobes 

 lanceolate, long cuspidate, 2 lin. long; corolla 5-9 lin. in diam., 

 plicate, hairy outside ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, pink {Wood) ; 



