Solamim.] xci. solanace.e (wright). 225 



in diaui., 5-ficl, unarmed, accrescent ; teeth acute. Corolla 5-partite, 

 .6-7 lin. in diam. ; lobes oblong, slightly reflexed, glabrous inside, 

 tomentose outside. Stamens 5, erect ; filaments very short ; anthers 

 2 lin. long. Style filiform, twice as long as the stamens ; stigma sub- 

 capitate. Berry globose, glabrous, \ in. in diam., orange ? 

 TTpper Guinea. Senegambia, Heiidelot, 417 ! 



42. S. macracanthum, A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 106. A much- 

 branched, very spiny herb, Branches terete, covered with stellate 

 hairs ; spines robust, straight, yellow, glabrous. Leaves oblong-oval, 

 obtuse, subentire or sinuate-pandurate, 1 in. long, stellately hairy on 

 both surfaces and spiny on the midrib, petioled. Cymes lateral, few- 

 flowered. Calyx 5-fid, hirsute, aculeate. Corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, hirsute. Berry the size of a cherry, orange, glabrous. 



Wile land. Abyssinia : Sboa, Petit. 



43. S. albicaule, Kotschy ex Dunal in DC.Prodr. xiii. i. 204. 

 A shrub. Stem terete, slender, covered when young with white 

 stellate tomentum ; spines compressed, recurved. Leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, sometimes slightly lobed with stellate hairs on both sur- 

 faces, up to H in. long and 1 in. wide ; petiole 1 as long as the blade. 

 Inflorescence exfcra-axillary, racemose, usually bifid ; lower pedicels 

 deciduous, leaving black scars. Calyx short, campanulate, 5-fid, 

 •stellately tomentose outside. Corolla rotate, stellately tomentose 

 "outside; lobes 5, linear, 5 lin. long. Stamens 5; filaments very 

 short; anthers with terminal pores. Ovary globose, glabrous; style 

 of lower flowers shorter than the anthers, of terminal longer. 

 Berry pendulous, globose, \ in. in diam., glabixms. — Schweinf. in 

 Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xv. (1865) 551 ; Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 

 •326 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 352; Zarb in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 31. 

 S. scindicum, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxv. 542. 



Nile Land. Nubia: Sotmba Mountains, Schweinfurth; Uaratab Mountains, 

 Suakim, Schvieinfurth, 1362 ! Hor Taraanib, Lord, 2 ! 37 ! Sea-coast, Pent ! 

 Kordofan, Kotschy, 309 I 418 ! Pfund, 107 ! 373 ! 646 ! Eritrea ; Mount Gbedem, 

 near Massowa, 500-1000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 82! Abyssinia, Plowden ! 

 Somaliland : Darror and Harradigit, James fy Thrupp I 



Also from Scinde to Egypt. 



44. S. kwebense, N. E. Br. An erect branching shrub, 4-5 ft. 

 high. Branches rather slender, 1-1 1 lin. thick, at first densely covered 

 with close white or pale yellow stellate tomentum, then pruinose, 

 finally glabrous, unarmed or with a few small spines. Leaves lanceo- 

 late or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, broadly cuneate or acute at the base, 

 thinly covered with minute stellate adpressed hairs above, more densely 

 so beneath, at length nearly glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes small, 

 "2-7- (sometimes 1-) flowered, stellately tomentose ; peduncles 1J-4 lin. 

 long;' pedicels 2-6 lin. long. Calyx campanulate, 1|- lin. long, 

 stellately tomentose outside, 5-lobed nearly half-way down ; lobes 

 deltoid-ovate, subacute. Corolla rotate or reflexed, 5-lobed, white or 



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