Lycopersicon | LXXXVIII. SOLANACER, 745 
Barra pO BenGo, Loanpa, ete.—An annual prostrate herb ; 
branchlets ascending ; flowers yellow ; fruit globose, as big as a very 
large cherry, glossy, of an orange-cinnabar colour, soft when ripe, 
quickly rotting. Perfectly spherical fruits and other fruits ribbed- 
sulcate and a little larger were frequently seen by Welwitsch to occur 
on the same individual plants. Wild but not indigenous, very 
plentifully occurring in all neglected formerly cultivated places and 
about dwellings, also at the stations (called Quilombo) of the migratory 
negroes, from the Atlantic shore to Condo ; in fields between Quicuxe 
and Cacuaco ; fl. and fr. beginning of Aug. 1858. No. 6046. 
This plant is especially frequent about the fundas (caravan en- 
campments) in company with Cleome and Psidium. There is a rapid 
transition from the large-sized berries to those no bigger than cherries, 
with several instead of only two cells. 
2. SOLANUM Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 888. 
1. S. nigrum L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 186 (1753), partly. 
GoLuNGo AtTro.—Stems ascending. WVarzea grande of the Coango ; 
fl. and young fr. June 1856. No. 6099. Stem at the base ascending, 
cylindrical, glossy, nodose at the ramification, angular above ; flowers 
white ; anthers yellow ; berries black. Among plants of manioc and 
beans in the varzea of Isidoro at the river Coango; fl. and fr. July 
18535. No. 6100. An annual herb, sometimes ascending, sometimes 
erect ; stem angular; flowers mostly 5-cleft but not rarely 4-cleft, 
white ; anthers yellow ; berries black. In plots planted with beans 
and maize, near Sange, sporadic ; fl. and fr. beginning of Aug. 1855. 
No. 6101. In fl. June 1857. Only one specimen. No. 61010. 
Var. villosum L., /.c. 
Puneo AnponGo.—An annual, ascending herb; stem angular ; 
flowers white, small; berries black. In damp and also in dry fields 
and in uncultivated places, tolerably plentiful near Cabondo ; also in 
localities far removed from dwellings ; fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 6109. 
MossaMepes.—An annual herb, } to 2 ft. high. In damp sandy 
places at the banks of the river Bero, near Mossamedes ; fl. and fr. 
July 1859. No. 60360. 
Hvui1iitA.—Leaves coarsely toothed. In bushy places at cataracts 
near Lopollo; fi. 11 Jan. 1860. No. 6036. An annual, erect herb, 
2 to 3 ft. high ; flowers white. In moist places by fields near Lopollo, 
Embala ; fl. 8 Nov. 1859. No. 6035. 
Var. guineensis L.., /.c. 
GoLuNGO ALTO.—Varzea near Camilungo ; fl. and young fr. May 
1855. No. 6102. 
2. 8. suffruticosum Schousboe ex Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 
p. 236 (1809). 
IcoLo E BenGo.—In palm-groves at the river Bengo ; fl. and fr. 
Dec. 1853. No. 6053. 
Perhaps only a shrubby variety of S. nigrum. 
3. §. nodiflorum Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. ii. p. 11, t. 326 (1786-1793). 
S. tinctoriwum Welw. Apontam. pp. 551, 590, n. 95 (1859), and 
Synopse Explic. p. 29, n. 70 (1862); Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 232 (1884). 
GoLuNGO ALTO.—An annual or biennial, decumbent herb, 2 to 3 ft. 
high, with the aspect of S. nigrum but with smaller flowers and in 
