Solatium.] xci. solanace^e (wright). 221 



surfaces, more or less cuneateat the base, 1|- in. long, nearly 1 in. wide. 

 Cymes racemose, few-flowered ; peduncle and pedicels pilose ; pedicels 

 clavate, h in. long. Calyx campanulate, pubescent ; lobes 5, ovate. 

 Corolla 5 lin. long ; tube short, glabrous outside ; lobes ovate, hairy 

 outside. Anthers subsessile, oblong, obtuse, nearly 1 lin. long, pores 

 oblique. Style longer than the stamens ; stigma capitate. Berry -J in. 

 in diam., globose, seated on the accrescent calyx.- — S. nigrum, forma, 

 Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 209. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 7000-10000 ft., Mann, 

 1938! 



20. S. subulatum, C. H. Wright. An unarmed shrub, stem, 

 leaves and inflorescence covered with scurfy stellate hairs when young. 

 Leaves oblong, acute at both ends, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide ; petiole 2 in. 

 long. Inflorescence extra-axillary, many-flowered, the first 4 or 5 

 divisions dichotomous. Calyx cupular ; teeth 5, distant, subulate, 

 Corolla divided nearly to the base ; lobes 5, oblong, acute, 2 lin. long, 

 with stellate hairs outside ; midrib prominent within. Anthers sub- 

 sessile, slightly tapering to the apex. Ovary globose ; style linear, 

 rather longer than the anthers, with stellate hairs on the lower part. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Masuka Plateau, 6500- 

 7000 ft., Whyte, 280 ! 



30. S. verbascifolium, Linn. Sp. PI. eel. i. 184. An unarmed 

 shrub or almost a tree. Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, quite entire, 

 up to 8 in. long, upper surface with adpressed stellate hairs, lower mealy 

 with dense stellate tomentum. Inflorescence coiymbose, subterminal, 

 at length lateral, mealy (except inside the corolla) with stellate 

 tomentum ; peduncle usually forked. Calyx-tube campanulate, 2 lin. 

 long ; lobes not quite as long as the tube, broadly triangular. Corolla 

 -J in. in diam., white, rarely pale blue; tube short; lobes 5, oblong. 

 Filaments very short ; anthers oblong, obtuse, pores slightly oblique, 

 wide. Berry globose, up to |- in. in diam., yellow. — Jacq. Hort. Vind. 

 i. t. 13 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 114; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 449 ; 

 C. B. CI. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 230. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, Millen, 50 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Malange, Gossweiler, 1105 ! 



Also in Tropical Asia, North Australia, and Tropical America. 



31. S. schimperianum, Hochsl. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 24. A 

 shrub about oft. high. Stem terete, stellately hairy when young, 

 glabrous when old. Leaves ovate, acute, about 1 in. long, f- in. wide, 

 covered with more or less deciduous stellate hairs ; petiole channelled 

 above. Inflorescence few-flowered. Calyx cyathiform, 2 lin. long, 

 4-partite. Corolla J in. in diam., stellately hairy outside; lobes 4, 

 ovate-oblong, longer than the tube. Stamens 4 ; anthers 1^ lin. long, 

 oblong, obtuse. Stigma slightly 2-lobed. Berry globose, 5 lin. in diam. 

 — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 94 ; Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 326 : Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 352. 



