﻿104 SOLANACE.^. (Wright). [Solamim. 



BarUy ! Qneenst.own Div. ; Qamata, Baiir, 482 ! plains near Queeastown, 

 S475 ft., Galpin, 2601 ! 2602 ! 



Centbal Rkgiox : Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Boivker ! 



Kalahari Eegion : Trausviial; Jeppestown Kidges, near Jobannesburg, 

 Gtlfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6240 ! 



30. S. mcestum (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 28'!:); a spiny shrub ; 

 branches brownish -red, terete, stellalelj' hairy, scabrid ; spines 

 1-3 lin. long, straight, slightly reflexed, acute, yellowish from a 

 broad purplish base ; leaves obtusely and sinuately 5-lobed, 1 in. long, 

 5-0 lin. wide, very unequal and obtuse or subacute at the base, green 

 and rather scabrid with stellate hairs above, hispid with yellowish 

 stellate haiis beneath, spiny on both surfaces of the midrib ; petiole 

 2-4 lin. long, terete, spiny, stellately tomentose ; cymes lacemose, 

 lateral, 4-5-flowered, 1} in. long; pedicels 5-6 lin. long, distant, 

 thickened upAvards, erect in flower, pendulous in fruit; calyx 2-2|- 

 lin. in diam., cyathifoim, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes ovate, long acuoai- 

 nate, acute, spiny or unarmed ; corolla 5-partite, stellately pilose 

 outside ; lobes oblong, rather obtuse ; stamens rather shorter than 

 the corolla ; filaments short, filiform ; anthers yellow, oblong, 

 acuminate, 3-3^ lin. long, with 2 apical pores ; ovary ovoid-oblong, 

 glabrous; style filiform, straight, 4 lin. long; berry globose-elliptic, 

 3 lin, long, 2} lin. in diam. 



South Africa -. without locality, Brege, 9355. 



31. S. giftbergense (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 288) ; branches 

 somewhat shining, sparingly stellately hairy ; spines numerous, 

 3 J -6 lin. long, straight, subulate from a dilated base, glabrous, 

 yellow or reddish ; leaves ovate, sinuately and obtusely lobed, obtuse, 

 unequal and slightly rounded or acute at the base, with scattered 

 stellate hairs on both surfaces and straight spines on the chief nerve^ ; 

 petiole 1-2 lin. long ; peduncles 2-4 lin. long, usually solitary, 

 1- (rarely 2-) flowered, stellately tomentose, spiny ; calyx 2 lin. in 

 diam., subcyathiform, 5-partite, spiny on the tube ; lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, acute, unarmed ; corolla ochraceous, 5 lin. 

 long, 5-fid, stellately tomentose outside and on the midribs inside, 

 glabrovis elsewhere ; lobes ovate, acute ; stamens 5, inserted at the 

 top of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, filiform ; anthers ovate- 

 linear, chestnut-brown, yellow and Avith 2 pores at the apex ; ovary 

 globose, stellately hairy, umbilicate after the fall of the style ; style 

 filiform, slightly thickened above, 3-3} lin. long, erect or nearly so, 

 with white stellate hairs at the base, longer than the stamens, 

 recurved at the apex. 



Coast Region : Gift Berg: i" Vanrhynsdorp Div. or Drukensteln Mountaiaa in 

 Worcester Div. (ex Bunal), Brege, 7863 ! 



This plant is not mentioned in Drege's Zvvei Pflanzeiigeogr. Documente. 



Imperfectly hnoicn species. 



32. S. lichtensteinii (Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 238) ; a 

 climbing shrub ; stem spiny ; leaves oblong, cordate, sinuately 



