218 xci. solavace^e (wright). [Solanum. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Sh'bisa (Chikwawa), 

 Kirk ! 



20. S. Goetzei, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 473. An un- 

 armed shrub, about 3 ft. high. Branches terete, densely puiverulent 

 with stellate hairs, reddish at the apex. Leaves lanceolate or obovate, 

 acute or acuminate, attenuate at the base, up to G in. long and 2 in. 

 broad, with scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces ; petiole 9 lin. long. 

 Inflorescence usually leaf-opposed, racemose, bifid ; peduncle short, 

 densely stellate tomentose ; pedicels up to 5 lin. long, stellately pilose. 

 Calyx 5-fid stellately pilose ; lobes broadly obovate, mucronate. Coiolla 

 violet, 7 lin. in diam. ; lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, acute, stellately pilose 

 outside. Stamens 5, subequal ; filaments short, glabrous ; anthers 2 lin. 

 long, tapering upwards. Style longer than the stamens, arcuate at the 

 apex ; stigma subglobose. Berry the size of a pea, shining red. Seeds 

 reniform, with large tubercles. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usaramo ; Kikolca, Stuhlmann, 127 ; 

 Khutu Steppe, 1000 ft., Goetze, 112 ! Usegua ; Kiwan la, Fischer, 409. 



21. S. nodiflorum, Jacq. Ic. ii. 11, I. 326. Stem erect, herba- 

 ceous or suffruticose ; branches herbaceous, terete, glabrous. Leaves 

 ovate, acuminate, 4 in. long, 2 in. wide, entire, glabrous; petiole 1\ in. 

 long. Cymes umbellate, at or above the nodes, few-flowered. Calyx- 

 lobes 5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla rotate, white, J in. in diam. ; lobes 5, 

 oblong, acute. Anthers with large oblique pores. Fruit globose, 5-6 

 lin. in diam., glabrous, black. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 46 ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 745. S. nigrum, var guineense, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 ed. 1, 186 ; Hiern, I.e. S. guineense, Lam. 111. ii. 18 ; Engl. Glied. Veg. 

 Usambara, 22, 55, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 351. S. tinctorium, Welw. 

 Apont. Phyto-geogr. 551, 590, No. 95, and Syn. Explic. 29, No. 70; 

 Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, 75. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 17 ! Senegambia, Brunner ! Sierra Leone, 

 Yogel, 108 ! Gold Coast: Aquapim, Yog el ! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 

 1054 ! Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, Mann, 1321 ! Efulen, Bates, 279 ! 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Ahl Mountains near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1410 ! 

 Bongo, Schweinfurth, 2649 ! Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 3242 ! Uganda : Ruwen- 

 zori, 6000-90CO ft., Scott-Elliot, 7659 ! 7821 ! various localities, Wilson, 11 ! 

 Whyte ! British East Africa : various localities, Whyte ! Kassner, 332 ! 434 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : various localities from Loanda and Anibriz to 

 Huilla, Gossweiler, A6il Monteiro ! Welwitsch, 6033 ! 6034! 6102! 6103! 6108! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Johnston, 76 ! Usam- 

 bara ; Amboni, Hoist, 2840 ! Uniamwezi ; Mininga, Speke Sf Grant, 79 1 Karagwe, 

 Speke Sf Grant, 453 ! British Central Africa : River Shire, Kirk ! 



22. S. nigrum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 186. An annual herb. Stem 

 angular, more or less pubescent, up to 2 ft. high. Leaves ovate, 

 obovate or lanceolate, sinuate-dentate, more rarely entire, tapering 

 downwards into the petiole, more or less pubescent with simple hairs on 

 both surfaces, up to 4 by 2 in., petiole up to 1 in. long. Cymes um- 





