Lijcopersicon] Lxxxviii. soLANACE.f:. 745 



Baiuia no Bencu), Loanda, etc.— An annual prostrate herb ; 

 branchlets ascending ; flowers yellow ; fruit globose, as l)ig 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. 1H58. No. 6046. 



This plant is "especially frequent about the fundas (caravan en- 

 campments) in company with Chonie and Psidiitm. 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. PI. ii. 88S. 



1. S. nigrum L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 186 (1753), partly. 

 GoLU.NCo Alto. — Stems ascending. Varzea grande of the Coango ; 



fl. and yoimg fr. June 185G. Xo. 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 

 1855. No. 6100- An annual herb, sometimes ascending, sometimes 

 erect ; stem angular ; flowers mostly 5-clef t 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. 185o. 

 No. 6101. In fl. June 1857. Only one specimen. No. 6101 />• 



Var. villosum L., I.e. 



PuNGO ANDON(iO. — 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. 



MossA>n:DE.s. — An annual herb, h to 2 ft. high. In damp sandy 

 places at the banks of the river Bero, near Mossamedes ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1859. No. 6036^. 



Hrii.LA. — Leaves coarsely toothed. In bushy places at cataracts 

 near Lopollo ; fl. 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., I.e. 



GoLUNco Alto. — Varzea near Camilungo : fl. and young fr. ^lay 

 1855. No. 6102. 



2. S. suffruticosum Scliousboo ex Willd. Euum. llort. Berol. 

 p. 236 (1809). 



Icoi.o E Ben(;(). — In palm-groves at the river Bengo ; fl. and fr. 

 Dec. 1853. No. 6053. 



Perhaps only a shrubby variety of 5^. iiigrtoii. 



3. S. nodiflorum Jacq. Ic PI. R-.n: ii. p. 11, t. 326 (1786-1793). 

 *S'. tinctorium Welw. Apontam. pp. 551, 590, n. 95 (1859), and 



Synopse Explic. p. 29, n. 70(1862); Picalho,Pl. Utei.s, p. 232(1884). 



GoLDNeiO Alto.— An annual or biennial, decumbent herb, 2 to 3 ft. 



high, with the aspect of S. nignim but with smaller flowers and in 



