750 LXXXVIII, SOLANACE. [Solanum 
high ; leaves membranous but rather fleshy ; flowers from whitish to 
lilac ; anthers yellow ; berries at first yellowish, at length turning 
black. On bushy hills near Puri-Cacarambola, sparingly ; fl. and fr, 
middle of Oct. 1856. No. 6082. 
Punco ANDONGO.—An undershrub, 3 ft. high ; flowers white ; 
berries cinnabar-red, scarcely as big as peas. In bushy pastures in the 
Nag a and at Pedra Cabondo ; fl. and young fr. end of Novy. 1856. 
0. B. 
17. S. indicum L. Sp. Pl., edit, i., p. 187 (1753), partly. 
Hui1LLa.—A strongly branched and prickly shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high ; 
flowers violet in colour ; berries scarlet. Usually growing in dense 
masses on the sites of previous negro-huts, flowering nearly throughout 
the year ; at Embala de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and April 1860. 
No. 6038. A shrublet, 3 to 4 ft. high ; leaves sinuate ; berries cinnabar- 
red, pea-shaped. May 1860. Determination doubtful. Cou. Carp. 81. 
18. §. duplosinuatum K1]. in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. p. 233 (1861). 
GoLuNGO ALTO.—An undershrub or rarely a shrub, 2 to 34 ft. high, 
sometimes almost unarmed, sometimes bristling with white-yellowish 
prickles ; corolla deep violet in colour, usually 5- but not rarely 
6-cleft, In rather dry sunny places at the outskirts of thickets 
throughout ‘the district, plentiful ; at Sange, fi. beginning of Aug. 
1855. No. 6096. A much branched, very prickly undershrub ; 
flowers large, violet in colour ; berries deep yellow, as large as a 
pigeon’s egg. In rough sunny places near Sange; seeds July 1857. 
Apparently this species. Cox. Carp. 800. 
Prince’s Istanp. In fr. Sept. 1853. A poor specimen, apparently 
of this species. No. 6085. 
19. S. fuseatum L. Sp. Pl., edit. 2, i. p. 268 (1762). 
CAPE DE VERDE IstaNps.—At Villa da Praia in the island of San 
Thiago ; fl. Jan. 1861. No. 6086. 
3. PHYSALIS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 890. 
1. P. minima L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 183 (1753); Dunal in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 445 (1852). 
P. divaricata D. Don, Prodr. p. 97 (1825) ; Dunal, l.c., p. 444. 
Lizonco.—An annual, erect herb, branched from the base ; flowers 
from whitish to yellowish ; fruit pale yellow, in size (without the 
calyx) like a very large pea, eaten by the negroes and found by 
Welwitsch not altogether unpleasant. In damp sandy places at the 
banks of the river Lifune, near Banza de Libongo; fl. and fr. 
Sept. 1858. Negro name “ Cabéboad.” No. 6055. 
GoLunco ALTo.—Stem angular, 2 to 3 ft. high; ripening calyx 
acutely angular, the keels of the angles somewhat crenate and beset 
with long hyaline hairs ; corolla pale sulphur in colour, small. In 
the rather shady parts of thickets, also at roadside ; road towards 
Capopa ; fl. and young fr. 1 Dec. 1854. No. 6057. A prostrate herb, 
with a mouse-like smell throughout; stems divaricately branched, 
densely shaggy ; flowers yellowish. In places neglected after cultiva- 
tion, on a moist sandy soil, in company with species of Cyperus, etc., 
in Sobato Cabanga-Cacalungo ; fl. and fr. beginning of Feb. 1855. 
No. 6058. In like situations at the base of the Cungulungulo moun- 
tains; fl. and fr. Feb. 1855. No. 6059. Stem at first erect, afterwards 
weakened by the rapid development of the lower branches ; the basal 
