746 LXXXVIII. SOLANACES. [Solanum 
other respects more robust ; stem thick, marked with two acute wings 
by the decurrent base of the leaves, branched ; leaves broadly ovate ; 
flowers small, white ; berries globose, black, or when ripe atro- 
purpureous, in size like a very large pea or the grape called in 
Portugal Bastardo, valued for their deep purple juice, which the 
negroes use as an ink (and with which Welwitsch wrote his notes 
relating to the specimens). In places neglected after cultivation and 
about negro villages in Sobatos Bango, Quilombo, etc., not uncommon ; 
fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1855, in July and middle of Aug. 1856, and in 
June 1857. No. 6103 and Coir. Carp. 138, 789, 790, 791. 
Punco ANpDoNGO.—A slender, erect, annual herb, in habit more or 
less like S. nigrum ; flowers white ; fruit from black to atropurpureous. 
In manioc plantations near Luxillo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. A slender 
form of the species. No. 6108. 
MossaAMEDES.—At Cavalheiros ; fl. July 1859. ‘‘ Herba Moira.” 
No. 6033. 
HoviLia.—In moist herbaceous places by the banks of the Lopollo 
river ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 6034. 
In Golungo Alto this herb is called by the natives “ Diste,” 
Welwitsch stated that the writing on some documents in the govern- 
ment office there, after having been written with the purple ink of 
the berries upwards of forty years, preserved their original colour. 
Perhaps only a variety of S. nigrum, the Portuguese name of which 
is “‘ herva moira.” 
4. §. Thonningianum Jacq. f. Eclog. i. p. 123, t. 83 (1816); 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 232 (1884). 
S. Atropo Schum. & Thonn, in Dansk, Vid. Selsk. iii. 144 (1828). 
Loanpa.—A herb, 3 or rarely 4 ft. high, nearly glabrous through- 
out, divaricately branched; stem and leaf-nerves atropurpureous ; 
flowers large, of a deep violet colour ; berries good to eat, depresso- 
globose, hollowed at the apex, like a tangerine orange in shape and 
colour. In places neglected after cultivation, between Loanda and 
Camama ; at Bemposta in company with Marsilea ; fl. 18 May 1859. 
Negro name “ Mamote,” No. 6076. 
5. §. pauperum Wright in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 127. 
Loanpa.—A shrublet, 3 ft. high, branched from the base ; branches 
spreading ; leaves membranous, deep green ; flowers from whitish to 
pomegranate-purple, berries brick-red. In thickets near Imbondeiro 
dos Lobos, here and there ; fl. and young fr. June 1858 ; at Alto das 
Cruzes and near Museque de L. Gomez ; fl. Feb. 1854. No. 6054. No 
notes. Nos. 6074 and 6075. An evergreen shrub ; leaves green, more 
or less oblong ; flowers clear blue; berries scarlet, By thickets, sporadic ; 
fr, beginning of March 1854. Apparently this species. CoLi. Carp. 796. 
6. S. bifureum Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. i. n. 201 (U. 7. 
1840); A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 98 (1851) (¢fureatum) ; Dunal in 
DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 77 (1852), 
Punco ANDONGO.—Mata de Cabondo; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 6107. A 
shrub, climbing to a great height ; flower clear blue ; berries brick-red. 
In the dense primitive forests of Pungo; fl.and fr. April 1857. No. 6106. 
The following No., which is represented in the British Museum 
by a fragmentary specimen, should be compared with this species ; 
in the study set the inflorescence is leaf-opposed, cymose, peduncu- 
late, and rather slender :— 
