226 xci. solanace^e (weight). [Solanum. 



mauve, glabrous inside ; lobes 3 times as long as the tube, 4-5 lin. long, 

 1J lin. wide, oblong-lanceolate, subacute. Stamens 5, uniform ; fila- 

 ments very short ; anthers | in. long, linear-oblong, pores terminal. 

 Berry globose, about \ in. in diam., scarlet. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Ngamiland : Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft- 

 Lugard, 50 ! Mrs. Lugard, 62 ! 



45. S. melastomoides, G. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 128. 

 A slender shrub. Stem slender, terete, dark brown, covered with 

 white stellate hairs when young ; spines straight or slightly curved, 

 8-5 lin. long, slightly compressed. Leaves solitary, ovate-oblong or 

 oblong, entire or very slightly sinuate, up to 2 in. long and l£ in. wide, 

 stellately hairy on both sides, sometimes spiny on the midrib ; petiole 

 \ in. long, unarmed or nearly so. Cymes extra -axillary, about 9- 

 flowered. Calyx cupular, 2 lin. long, stellately tomentose outside ; 

 lobes 5, roundish. Corolla broadly campanulate, plicate, 1^ in. in 

 diam., stellately hairy outside the midpetaline areas. Stamens 5 ; four 

 filaments | lin. long, the fifth ^in. ; anthers \ in. long, obtuse, pores 

 slightly oblique. Style rather longer than the stamens, hooked and 

 thickened at the apex. 



Wile Land, Somaliland : Boobi and Harradigit, James 8f Thrupp ! Dooloo, 

 Miss Edith Cole. 



46. S. hastifolium, Hochst. ex Dunal in DC. Proclr. xiii. i. 284. 

 A shrub. Stem slender, terete, sparingly hairy ; spines short, re- 

 curved, compressed. Leaves hastate or more or less pinnately lobed, 

 1J in. long, | in. wide, with scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces, 

 unarmed. Inflorescence lateral and terminal on the branches, racemose 

 or reduced to a single flower. Calyx 5-fid, stellately hairy ; lobes acute. 

 Corolla 5-partite, stellately hairy outside ; lobes narrow, acute, 5 lin. 

 long. Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile, rather shorter than the corolla- 

 lobes, lanceolate, pores small, terminal. Ovary globose ; style much 

 longer than the anthers. Berry globose, smooth, J in. in diam. 



Nile land. Kordofan : on various mountains, Kotschy, 7l ! 393! Pfund, 

 330! 342! 643! Sennar: Abu Harras, Schweinfurth, 1401! Abyssinia: Jaja, 

 4000 ft., Schimper, 2328 ! Uganda : near Lake Baringo, Johnston ! 



A more robust hairy form with larger subentire leaves was collected on mountains 

 near Gageros, in Abyssinia, by Schimper (2327a !). This species has been confused 

 with S. trilobatiim, Linn., which does not appear to occur in Tropical Africa. 



47. S. taitense, Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 327. A much-branched 

 shrub. Branches glabrous ; spines few, compressed, slightly recurved. 

 Leaves ovate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, entire or slightly repand, 

 stellately tomentose on both sides, 1 in. long. Flowers solitary or in 

 pairs; peduncle filiform, 5 lin. long, tomentose. Calyx shortly cup- 

 shaped, unarmed, 5-partite ; lobes linear from an ovate base, obtuse. 

 Corolla^twice as long as the calyx, 5 lin. in diam., deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 

 attenuate, rather obtuse, £ in. long, h lin. wide, stellately tomentose 

 outside, glabrous within. Stamens 5, shorter than the corolla ; anthers 

 subsessile, oblong-linear, subconnivent, pores terminal. Style filiform, 



