﻿100 SOLANACE/E (Wright). [8olanum. 



wide, with stellate tomentum on both surfaces, unarmed, rarely- 

 spiny ; petiole long, spiny ; flowers solitary, or few in a cyme with 

 one only fertile, 5-9-merous ; calyx often spiny, 4 lin. in diam., 

 enlarging in fruit; lobes unequal, linear-lanceolate; corolla violet - 

 purple, 1-li in. in diam., with stellate hairs on both sides ; lobes 

 4-5 lin. long, triangular, acute ; filaments short ; anthers 3-4 lin, 

 long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, with 2 small apical pores ; style 

 2-3 lin. long, slightly curved, stellately hairy at the base ; berry 

 oblong or slightly enlarged above, 6 in. long, blackish-purple; 

 placentas fleshy. Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 48 ; Sendtn. in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 77 ; HooJc.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 235 partly ; DutMe, 

 Field Sf Gard. Crops, m.^l, t. 95. S. insanum, Linn. Mant. 46; 

 Thunh. Prodr. 36, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 189 ; Willi. Sp. PI i. 

 1037. (S. esculentum, Dunal, Hist. Solan. 208, t. 'i,fig. E, and in 

 DC. Prod. xiii. i. 355. S. melanocarpum, Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 

 i. 355. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; on hills near Cape Town, Thunberg. 



Cultivated or naturalized throughout the tropics, introduced in South 

 Africa. There is no specimen of S. insanum, Liun., in Thunberg's herbarium. 



? 24. S. tomentosim (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 188, ed. 2, 269) ; a shrub 

 1^-2 ft. high, densely clothed in all its parts with yellowish stellate 

 hairs ; branches terete ; spines 1-2 lin. long, subulate, straight or 

 very slightly curved ; leaves ovate, sinuate, more rarely entire, 

 obtuse, unequal and rounded or cordate at the base, 1-3 in. long, 

 ^-2 in. broad, unarmed or with a few spines on the midrib ; cymes 

 umbellate, few-flowered ; peduncle short ; pedicels thickened up- 

 wards ; calyx 3 lin. in diam., spiny outside ; tube campanulate ; 

 lobes unequal, oblong, obtuse; corolla deep purple (Galpin), blue 

 (Dunal), 6 lin. in diam.; lobes ovate, acute; filaments short; 

 anthers 1^ lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with 2 small apical pores ; style 

 straight, filiform, hairy below, longer than the stamens ; truit globose, 

 up to 9 lin. in diam., at first stellately hairy, finally glabrous. 

 TImnb. Prodr. 36, and Fl. Gap. ed. Schult. 189 ; Drege, Zwei Pflan- 

 znngeogr. Documente, 62, 64, 93, 124, and in Linncea, xx. 203 {incl. 

 var. macrophyllum, Nees) ; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 299. 



Var. /8, Burchellii (C. H. Wright) ; leaves not so obtuse at the base as in the 

 type; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate; fruit rather smaller than in the 

 type. S. Btirchellii, Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 291. 



South Atkica : without locality, Forster ! Forhes ! Waldegrave '. 



Coast Eegion : Clanwilliam Div.; Zekoe Vley, 400 ft., ScUecliier,S'oOO\ 

 Worcester Div. ; mountains above Worcester, Behmann, 2465 ! Paarl Div. ; 

 Paavl Mountain, Dr^ge / Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, Thunherg ! G&m'ps Bay, 

 Burchell, 373 ! Caledon Div. ? Ezeljagts Poort, Lady BarUy ! Swellendam Div. ; 

 Bnffeljagts River, Gill] Mossel Bay Div. ; banks of the Gauritz River, Bowie! 

 Knysna Dir. ; Ruigte Vallei, under 500 ft., Brege ; Humansdorp Div.; Lange 

 Kluof, mountain sides near the west bank of Wagenbooms River, Burchell, 

 4903! Uitenhage Div.; valley of Zwartkops River, 50-500 ft., Zeyher, 458! 

 3-167! Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, near Gvahamstown, 2000-3000 ft.. 

 Zeyher, 3468, Grahauistown, MacOwan ! Fort Btanfort Div., Cooper, 482 .' 

 Qutenstown Div. ; rocky summits near Queenstown, 4500 ft., Galpin, 2006! 



