224 xci. solanace^e (wright). [Solanum. 



Prodr. xiii. i. 352 ; J. Braun in Mitth. Deutsch. Sohutzgeb. ii. (1889) 

 173. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea (Gold Coast ?) : cultivated land, Thonning. Togo, 

 Braun. 



39. S. albifolium, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin,189i, 127. A 

 shrub or small tree. Stem terete, when } T oung clothed with white 

 stellate hairs. Leaves pinna tely lobed about halfway to the midrib, 

 5 in. long, 3 in. wide, dark green with a few deciduous stellate hairs 

 above, densely tomentose with white stellate hairs beneath; petiole 

 A in. long. Inflorescence nearly leaf -opposed, cymose. Calyx cupular, 

 densely white stellate hairy outside ; teeth 5, triangular, much shorter 

 than the tube. Corolla rotate ; lobes 5, linear, stellately hairy outside, 

 pubescent along the midrib within. Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile, 

 lanceolate, pores small, terminal. Ovary globose, hairy ; style short, 

 subulate. Fruit globose, 5 lin. in diam., sulphur-coloured, smooth. 

 — Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, 74, and Cat. Afr. PI. Welw, i. 747. S.. 

 saponaceum, Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 551, 588; Picalho, PI. 

 Uteis, 232 ; Monteiro, Angola, ii. Ill, not of Dunal. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; near Quibixe, Welwisch, 6093 ! 

 6095b ! Bumbo : Chella Mountains, Welwitsch, 6040 ! 



" Fruit used for washing cloths, &c, instead of soap." Monteiro, I.e. 



40. S. scalare, Q. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 93. 

 Suffruticose. Stem terete, covered with stellate hairs. Leaves ovate- 

 oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, undulate, 4 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, 

 stellately hairy on both surfaces. Inflorescence extra-axillary, dis- 

 tinctly racemose ; pedicels about 10, distichous, up to 5 lin. long in 

 fruit. Calyx cupular ; lobes 5, subulate, covered with stellate hairs. 

 Corolla rotate, 5 lin. in diam., white or violet; lobes 5, oblong, twice 

 as long as the calyx, stellately hairy outside, glabrous within. Stamens 

 5; anthers oblong, subsessile, nearly as long as the corolla-lobes, pores 

 terminal. Ovary globose, stellately hairy ; style subulate, as long as 

 the stamens, covered with stellate hairs. Berry globose, ^in. in diam., 

 smooth, shining red. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 749. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Mofari, Scott-Elliot, 4394 ! Sakaro 

 Scott-Elliot, 4898 ! and without precise locality, Garrett, 18 ! Gold Const * 

 Aburi, Brown, 320 ! Lagos : Oshogbo, Moloney ! near Lagos, Rowland, 4 ! 

 Northern Nigeria : confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers, Barter I Southern 

 Nigeria : Cross River Expedition, Holland, 188 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; near Sange, Welwitsch, 6088 ! 

 near Camilungo, Welwitsch, 6089 ! palm groves by the River Quibolo, Welwitsch, 

 6090 ! Pungo Andongo ; banks of the River Cas:ibale, Welwitsch, 6104 ! 



41. S. Heudelotii, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 205. A shrub. 

 Branches slender; spines reflexed, reddish-yellow. Leaves ovate- 

 elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 lin. long, 3-5 lin. wide, tomentose 

 when young, glabrous or slightly pilose in age ; primary veins 2-3 on 

 each side ; petiole 3-4 lin. long. Inflorescence racemose, few-flowered, 

 rhachis scurfy tomentose, slightly spiny. Calyx cyathiform, l\ lin. 



