Solatium.] xcr. solanace^e (wright). 215 



plant), stellately pubescent outside; lobes obtuse. Corolla 1 in. in 

 diam., pink to lilac, 5-partite, stellately pubescent outside ; lobes 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, hairy on the midrib inside. Stamens 5 ; fila- 

 ments very short ; anthers 2^ lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, with two 

 small apical pores. Ovary ovoid, hirsute at the apex ; style 5 lin. 

 long, thickened upwards, stellately hairy at the base. Fruit f in. 

 in diam., globose, smooth, yellow. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 370 ; 

 C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 99. S. delagoense, Dunal, I.e. 

 349 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 747. S. Baumii, Dammer in 

 Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 361, 443. 



Wile Land. Uganda : Buddu, 3900 ft., Dawe, 235 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: near Loanda, Welwitsch, 6049 ! Huilla; between 

 Nene and Mumpulla, Welwitsch, 6031 ! by the Habungu brook, Baum, 469 ! 

 German South-west Africa : Onmlonga, Schinz, 865 ! Grootfontein, Schinz, 869 ! 

 and without precise locality, LuderUz, 12 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : east coast of Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 

 66 ! Shupantra, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland, 1700-6000 ft. ; 

 Kondowe to Kar.mun, Whyte ! Songue to Karonga, Whyte, 4 ! Nyika Plateau, 

 MoClounie, 51! Zomba, Whyte. I Mlanji, Scott! and without precise locality, 

 Buchanan, 533 ! Matabeleland, Oates ! Elliott ! Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 

 Lugard, 55 ! Mrs. Lugard, 19 ! Shesheke, on the Zambesi, Bolul, 387 ! 397 ! 

 1821! 



11. S. psilostylum, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 354. Stem 

 woody, terete, stellately pubescent, unarmed ? Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 about 3 in. long, | in. wide, slightly sinuate or entire, densely covered 

 with minute golden stellate hairs above, and with ashy-grey stellate 

 hairs below. Cymes racemose, extra-axillary, few-flowered; peduncle, 

 pedicels and calyx with golden stellate hairs, mixed with short slender 

 spines here and there. Calyx cupular ; lobes 5, triangular-subulate^ 

 2-3 lin. long. Corolla rotate, plicate, f in. in diam. ; lobes 5, acutej 

 stellately hairy outside the midpetaline areas. Filaments very short ; 

 anthers 2-3 lin. long, scarcely attenuate above, pores terminal. Ovary 

 globose ; style clavate, \ in. long, glabrous ; stigma bilobed. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Muansa, on Lake Victoria, Stuhlmann, 

 4160 ! 



When better known, this may have to be united with S. pandurcefortne, 

 E. Meyer. 



12. S. benguelease, Wawra & Peyr. Sert. Benguel. 35. An 

 unarmed shrub 2-3 ft. high, covered with stellate ochraceous tomentum. 

 Leaves lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, entire or undulate, unequal and 

 acute at the base, 1^-3 in. long, scabrid ; petiole short. Inflorescence 

 lateral or subterminal, 1-4-flowered. Corolla campanulate, 5-fid, violet, 

 glabrous inside, yellowish tomentose outside. Stamens 5 ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers obtuse. Style rather longer than the stamens. 

 Berry solitaiw, globose, 1 in. or more in diam., yellow, 4-celled, sur- 

 rounded by the swollen calyx. 



lower Guinea. Angola ; Benguela, Wawra. 289. 



13. S. Volkensii, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 354. A 

 shrub about 3 ft. high. Branches terete, unaimied, covered with 



