﻿Solanum.] solanace^e (Wright). ]01 



Central Eegion: Prince Albert Di v. ; Great Zwarte Bergen, near Yrolylc, 

 3000-4000 ft., Drege ! Somerset Div. ; at Platte River, Burchell, 2958 ! 

 Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuwveld Mountains, near Beaufort West, 3000-5003 ft., 

 Drege ! Colesberg: Div. ; near Colesberg, Shmv ! Var, 0, Calviiiia Div. ; Brand 

 Vley, Johanssen, 23! Frazerber^ Div.; at Dwaal River, Burchell, 1467! 



Western Region: Little Namaqualand ; Orange River near Verleptpram, 

 under 500 ft , Drege. Var. fi, Great ^'anlaqua]a^d : Ausis, Schenck, 75 ! Gubub. 

 Schinz, 871 ! 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; Orange River. Burke! Var. 8, 

 Griqualand West; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof Village, Burchell, 2045/1 I 

 at Klip Fontein, Burchell, 2623 ! 



Eastern Region: Katal; without precise locality, Cooper, 2814! Gerrard, 

 53 ! 



The locality " in Ameriea Boreali " given in Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 188, is 

 corrected to "in ^Ethiopia " in ed. 2, 269. 



25. S. indicum (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 187) ; shrubby ; stem erect, 

 branched, terete, densely clothed when young with floccose stellate 

 tomentum ; spines straight ; leaves solitary or geminate, ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, more or less sinuately lobed, acute, 4 in. long, 2 in. 

 wide ; stellate hairs on the upper surface with one ray much longer 

 than the rest, those on the lower with equal rays ; cymes racemose, 

 few-flowered ; pedicels thickened upwards ; calyx shortly cani- 

 panulate, densely stellately hairy outside ; lobes shortly triangular ; 

 corolla violet-purple, 6-8 lin. in diam., densely stellate-hairy outside 

 when young, less so inside ; lobes lanceolate, acute ; filaments .short ; 

 anthers 2 lin. long, lanceolate, with 2 minute terminal pores; style 

 longer than the anthers ; berries globose, 5 lin. in diam., usually 

 several matured on one cyme, glabrous ; seeds compressed, minutely 

 pitted. Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 55; Wight Ic. t. ^40; 

 Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 309 ; HooTc. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 234. 

 8. violaceum, J acq. Fragm. 82, t. 132, Jig. 1. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 561 ! 

 Also in Tropical Africa, Malaya, and India. 



7 26. S. incanum (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 188); a shrub 3-5 ft. high, 

 with dense stellate tomentum on the branches, petioles, underside of 

 leaves, and outside of calyx and corolla ; branches terete ; spines 

 iew or many, 2 lin. long, curved, broad at the base ; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-elliptic, sinuate, 5 in. by 2-3 in., obtuse, green and minutely 

 stellately hairy on the upper surface, unequal at the base, sometimes 

 spiny on the midrib and nerves; petiole I| in. long; flowers 

 solitary or few together (the lower only fertile), cernuous ; peduncle 

 short ; calyx spiny outside, cup-shaped ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 corolla purple or white, 9-15 lin. in diam. ; lobes ovate, acute ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers 2^ lin. long, oblong, with 2 small 

 apical pores; style longer than the stamens; fruit subglobose, ]J in. 

 in diam., yellow\ S. sanctum, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 269. S. coagulans, 

 ForsTc. Fl. JEgijpt.-Arah. 47 ; Bel. Fl. Egypte, 63, t. 23, Jig. 1 . -S". 

 esculentum, Drer/e, Zirei Pflanzengeogr. Doctimrnte, 49, 138, 139, 

 151, not of Dunal. iS. suhexarmatim, Bunul in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 



