Solanum | LXXXVIII, SOLANACER. 749 
the left bank of the river Cuango ; fl. and fr. May 1855. No. 6092. 
A stout undershrub, 4 or rarely 5 ft. high, unarmed, with irregularly 
divaricate branches; flowers whitish; calyx usually 6- or 7-cleft : 
berry depresso-globose, deeply furrowed, orange-scarlet, edible, even 
the unripe fruit being greedily consumed by the negroes, the ribs 
obtuse and unequal like those in Lycopersicon. Wild here and there 
about the village and deserted dwellings, and cultivated; at an 
abandoned sensala (native village) on the bank of the river Luinha in 
Queta ; fl. and fr. July 1856. Native name ‘“‘ N-gilla.” No. 6093. A 
diffusely branched shrub or undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high; flowers 
white ; fruit as large as a small pigeon’s egg, at first ivory-coloured, 
afterwards turning yellow, edible. About Banza do Sobato Bango ; 
fl. and fr. 7 Sept. 1855. No. 6094. 
14. S. sealare Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 93 (1894). 
GoLuNGO ALTO.—Flowers violet in colour ; berries reddening. In 
rough places on rubbish heaps and by roadsides near Sange ; fr. 
No. 6088. A patently branched herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, whitish-lepidote 
throughout ; flowers white, occasionally a little purplish ; berries 
scarlet, as big as peas. In rather dry bushy places near Camilungo, 
etc., frequent but always solitary; fl. Feb. 1856. No. 6089. No 
notes. In fl. 'and fr. No. 6089). A herb, 25 to 35 or rarely 4 ft. 
high ; stem straight, patently branched ; flowers whitish ; berries 
cinnabar-red. In ‘somewhat shady parts of palm groves on the left 
bank of the river Quibolo ; fl. and fr. March and July 1856. No. 6090. 
A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high; leaves tomentose ; flowers white; fruit 
orange-red. In sunny places near Aldea do Golungo Alto ; fr. Sept. 
Apparently this species. Conti. Carp. 799. 
PunGco ANDONGO,—A branched undershrub, 4 ft. high ; stems and 
flowers violaceous-purpurascent ; berries scarlet. In thickets to the 
south of the presidium at the banks of the river Casabalé ; fl. and fr. 
Jan. 1857. No. 6104. 
15. §. insigne Lowe in Journ. Hort. Soc., n.s. i. p. 178 (1867). 
MossaMEDES.—A small tree, 5 to 7 ft. high, with a broad head ; 
branches erect ; branchlets spreading ; leaves rather fleshy, dull green ; 
flowers from whitish to purplish ; berries ellipsoidal, orange-cinnabar 
in colour. Cultivated in gardens at Mossamedes, which was said to 
have recently been introduced from Oporto; fl. and fr, June 1859. 
No. 6037. 
In the study set the inflorescence is 3 in. long and pedunculate, and 
the berry is fusiform, 2 in. long, shining, and glabrous. 
16. S. Mannii Wright in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 129. 
Var. compactum Wright, /.c. 
AMBRIZ.—Hills near Ambriz; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 6079. 
Lizoneo.—An annual erect herb, nearly simple, 7 in. high, with the 
habit of S. nigrum. In sandy places at the river Lifune near Banza 
de Libongo, in company with Physalis ; fl. and young fr. Sept. 1858. 
No. 6080. 
Barra DO Danpe.—A strongly branched shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; 
branches tomentose, prickly ; flowers white ; berries cinnabar-red. 
In gravelly places at the mouth of the river Dande; fl. and fr. Nov. 
1853. No. 6052. 
ZENZA DO GOLUNGO.—In dry bushy places near Calumguembo ; frag- 
mentary, apparently of this species; fi. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 6087. 
AmpBaca.—An erect undershrub, woody at the base, 3 to 4 ft. 
