214 xci. soLANACEiE (wright). [Solanum. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; Munza, Schweinfurth, 

 3498 ! Sona Gunga, Luja, ex De Wildeman fy Durand. 



Var. oblongum, C. H. Wright, I.e. 127. Leaves narrower, more obtuse and 

 tapering more to the base. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Ambas Bay, Mann, X ! 



The corolla-lobes remaining adherent for some time gave rise to the corolla being 

 erroneously described as urceolate. 



8. S. aggregatum, Jacq. Coll. iv. 124. An erect unarmed shrub, 

 4 ft. high. Branches terete, rigid, minutely puberulous, lenticellate. 

 Leaves aggregate, ovate to oblong, obtuse, up to 2 in. long by 14 lin. 

 wide, entire or slightly repand, long cuneate at the base, glabrous ; 

 midrib prominent ; petiole up to f in. long. Flowers solitary or 2-3 

 together ; pedicels slender, up to 1 in. long, cernuous in fruit. Calyx 

 campanulate, \ in. long ; lobes linear, obtuse, as long as the tube, 

 1-nerved. Corolla widely campanulate, fin. in diam., 5-partite ; lobes 

 oblong, slightly undulate, rather acute, pubescent outside the apex. 

 Stamens 5 ; filaments h lin. long, white ; anthers oblong, yellow, 2 lin. 

 long, pores terminal. Style white, 4-5 lin. long; stigma small. Fruit 

 subglobose, yellow, as large as a pea ; seeds few, compressed. — Ic. t. 

 323 ; Drege in Linnsea, xx. 203 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 160; 

 C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 91. S. monticolum, Dunal, I.e. 

 161. Lycium sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 75, 88. 

 Atropa solanacea, Lion. Mant. Alt. 205 ; Thunb. Prodr. 37 ; and FL 

 Cap. ed. Schult. 191. 



Guinea, ex Jacquin. 

 Also in South Africa. 



9. S. macrocarpon, Linn. Mant. Alt. 205. A stout subshrub. 

 Stem terete, much branched, smooth, when young sparingly furnished 

 with simple hairs. Leaves ovate, sinuate-repand, generally tapering 

 to the base, 8 in. long, 4 in. wide, glabrous ; petiole short, channelled 

 above. Cymes short, racemose, almost leaf-opposed. Calyx campanu- 

 late ; lobes 5, foliaceous, enlarging in fruit. Corolla broadly campanu- 

 late, l^in. in diam., blue-purple; lobes 5, broadly triangular. Stamens 

 5 ; anthers lanceolate, pores terminal, small. Ovary globose ; style 

 rather longer than the stamens. Berry globose, yellow, the size of 

 an apple. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 353. ti. Mors-elephantum, 

 Dammann, Cat. No. 70, 100, fig. 81 ; Wien. 111. Gartenz. 1894, 30, 

 %• ". 



Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Last ! German East Africa, StuJdmann. British 

 Central Africa : Nyas.dand, Buchanan, 1054 ! Uganda : 2nd march from Lubwas, 

 Whyte .' 



10. S. panduraeforme, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Documente, 147. A much-branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high ; spines few or 

 many, short, subulate from a broad base. Branches terete, densely 

 stellately pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sinuate, acute, 2|- in. 

 by 1 in., tapering to the base, stellately pubescent on both surfaces, 

 sometimes spiny on the underside of the midrib ; petiole J in. long. 

 Cymes pseudo-terminal, racemose, the lowest flower alone fertile. 

 Calyx \ in. long, 5-toothed or deeply 5-lobed (sometimes on the same 



