l6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 68 



SOLANUM KENIENSE Standley, sp. nov. 



Caules scandentes, inermes, juventute pilis hispidulis vel laxe 

 ramulosis fulvo-tomentosi, glabrescentes ; folia petiolata, laminis 

 ovali-ovatis vel rotundato-ovatis, apice obtusis vel breviter acumi- 

 natis, basi truncatis vel late rotundatis, subcoriaceis, integris, supra 

 sparse, subtus dense pilis fulvis, ramulosis vel hispidulis praeditis ; 

 cymae multiflorae, paniculas terminales formantes ; calyx 5-lobatus, 

 stellato-tomentosus, lobis tubum aequantibus, triangulari-ovatis ; 

 corollae lobi deltoidei, acuti. 



Stems scandent, subangulate, unarmed, when young- fulvous- 

 tomentose with long, matted, hispidulous or loosely branched hairs, 

 soon glabrate ; petioles 1-2 cm. long, densely tomentose like the 

 stems ; leaf blades oval-ovate or rounded-ovate, 3.5-9 cm. long, 

 2.5-6.5 cm. wide, obtuse or short-acuminate at the apex, truncate or 

 broadly rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, entire, grayish green 

 on the upper surface and sparsely furnished, especially along the 

 impressed nerves, with short, brown, stellate or hispidulous hairs, 

 beneath densely covered with long", brownish, stalked, branched or 

 hispidulous hairs, the pubescence persistent ; cymes many-flowered, 

 arranged in a terminal divaricate panicle 8 cm. long and broad, 

 densely tomentose ; pedicels 8 cm. long ; calyx 3 mm. long-, 5-lobed, 

 densely stellate-tomentose outside, the lobes about as long as the 

 tube, deltoid-ovate, obtuse or acutish ; corolla 12-15 mm. broad, 

 finely stellate-pubescent outside, the lobes deltoid, acute or acutish ; 

 stamens 5, shorter than the corolla tube ; fruit not seen. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 631465, collected in 

 the giant heath zone, western slopes of Mount Kenia, British East 

 Africa, altitude about 3,630 meters, September 21 to 27, 1909, by 

 E. A. Mearns (no. 1416). 



A very distinct species, apparently, and from an unusually hig-h 

 altitude for a plant of this genus. 



BARTSIA KENIENSIS Standley, sp. nov. 



Caules robusti, minute puberuli vel glabrati ; foliorum laminae 

 anguste lanceolato-oblongae, apice obtusae vel rotundatae, basi 

 cuneatim in petiolum brevem angustatae, crenatae, glabrae vel supra 

 obscure scaberulae ; calyx minute glanduloso-puberulus, fere aequa- 

 liter 4-lobatus, lobis tubum aequantibus, oblongis, obtusissimis, 

 apice crenatis ; corollae tubus curvatus, limbus bilabiatus, labio 

 superiore galeato, labio inferiore profunde 3-lobato, lobis obovato- 

 orbicularibus ; ovarium dense sericeum. 



