﻿Fhijsalis.] SOLANACE^ (Wright). 107 



rounded or shortly cuneate at the base, entire or sinuate-dentate, 

 IJ- in. long, 9 lin. wide; petiole slender, 4 lin. long; flowers 

 solitary ; pedicels slender, inserted by the side of the petiole ; calyx- 

 tube cainpanulate, f lin. long, enlarging in fruit to 6 lin. in diam. and 

 becoming glabrous ; lobes lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long ; corolla 

 narrowly campanulate, yellow (white. Wood), not spotted, 3 lin. 

 long, 2i lin. wide, shortly 5-lobed ; filaments 1^ lin. long, filiform; 

 anthers oblong, |- lin. long; ovary globose; style l-i lin. long, 

 slightly thickened upwards ; stigma subcapitato ; berry globose, 

 3 lin. in diam., smooth. Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documenfe, 

 198; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 445 ; Benth. Fl. Austral iv. -ieG ; 

 Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 238. F. parvijlora, R. Br. Prodr. 447. 

 P. Hermanni, Dunal, I.e. 444; Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. PL ed. 2, 

 257. 



South Africa : without locality, Forster! 



Easteen Region: Natnl ; Umlazi River Heiofhts, under 500 ft., Drege! in 

 a vhIIov at Umhlaiiga, 300-400 ft., JFood, 6352! aud without precise locality, 

 &errard, 1415 ! 



Also in Tropical Asia and Australia. 



III. WITHANIA, Pauq. 



Calijx campanulate, 5-6-toothed, enlarged and inflated in fruit. 

 Corolla narrowly campanulate, 3-6-fid ; lobes vallate. Stamens 

 inserted near the corolla-base ; filaments slightly flattened ; anthers 

 erect ; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk annular, crenu- 

 late or 0. Ovarij 2-celIed ; style filiform ; stigma shortly and widely 

 2-laniellate ; ovules many. Berry globose, shorter than the enlarged 

 calyx. Seeds compressed ; embryo near the margin, and incurved or 

 spiral ; cotyledons semi terete. 



Hoary shrubs, loosely tomentose, woolly or glabreseent ; leaves quite entire; 

 flowers usually fascicled, gubsessile or shortly pedicellate, medium-sized. 



DiSTRiB. Species about 4, extending from Southern Europe and Western Asia 

 through JSorth and Tropical Africa and the Canary Islands. 



■^ 1. W. somnifera (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 453, incl. var.'?.) ; 

 an erect much-branched shrub, 3-4 ft. high ; stem terete, tomentose ; 

 leaves ovate, obovate or oblong, obtuse, tapering towards the base, 

 entire or very slightly sinuate, variable in size, averaging 2.} by 1 in., 

 more or less tomentose on both surfaces; petiole 6 lin. long, tomen- 

 tose, channelled above; flowers 4-6 in axillary fascicles; pedicels 

 2 lin. long in flower, elongating afterwards ; calyx 1 lin. in diam., 

 campanulate, densely tomentose outside ; lobes 5, lanceolate ; 

 corolla 2\ lin. long, divided nearly to the middle into 5 triangular 

 lobes ; fiaments inserted near the corolla-base, l\ lin. long, filiform ; 

 anthers oval, -]- lin. long ; ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style shorter than 

 the stamens ; berry globose, glabrous, 3 lin. in diam., enclosed in the 



