Solatium.] xci. solanace^e (wright). 227 



hirsute, J in. long, recurved at the apex. — S. teitense, Dammer in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. 0. 353. 



Wile Land. British East Africa : desert between Ndi Mountain and the 

 River Tsavo, Eildebrandt, 2605. 



48. S. sepicula, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 283. A slender 

 shrub. Stem glabrous ; spines short, recurved from a broad com- 

 pressed base. Leaves pinnately lobed, 1|- in. long; lobes 1-2 lin. wide, 

 glabrous. Cymes racemose, extra-axillary ; pedicels thickened upwards. 

 Calyx cupular; lobes 5, triangular. Corolla rotate, slightly pubescent 

 outside ; lobes 5, linear, acute, \ in. long, 1-nerved. Stamens 5, nearly 

 as long as the corolla-lobes ; anthers subsessile, lanceolate, pores small, 

 terminal. Ovary globose ; style rather longer than the anthers, fur- 

 nished with simple hairs below. Berry red, ^ in. in diam., pendulous. 

 — Yatke in Linnrea, xliii. 327 ; KewBulletin, 1894, 337. S. Palmetorum, 

 Dunal, I.e. 282. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Efat, Roth, 446 ! Alinamboo, Roth, 447! Somali- 

 land, 3£iss Edith Cole ! 

 Also in Arabia. 



49. S. stipitato-stellatum, Dammer in Engl. Pjl. Ost-Afr. C. 353. 

 A shrub about 6 ft. high. Branches slender, terete, sparingly spiny, 

 with rusty stellate tomentum on the younger parts ; spines straight, 

 slender, 1-2 lin. long, woody below, densely covered with stalked 

 stellate hairs. Leaves lanceolate, with rusty stellate tomentum on both 

 surfaces, undulate, spiny on the midrib ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Cymes 

 racemose, extra-axillary, few-flowered ; peduncle and pedicels covered 

 with stellate tomentum, slightly spiny. Calyx 5-partite, pale blue, 1 in. 

 in diam. ; lobes stellately tomentose outside. Filaments short ; anthers 

 ^ in. long, attenuate upwards. Ovary subglobose, glabrous ; style 5 lin. 

 long, glabrous ; stigma obliquely bifid. Berry ellipsoid, 7 lin. long, 4 lin. in 

 diam. — Engl. Glied. Veg. IJsambara, 63. 



TCozamb. Hist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Km Mshuza, Hoist, 

 9121 ! British East Africa : near Maji Chumois, Kassner, 472 ! 



50. S. rigescens, Jacq. Hort. Schambr. i. 19, t. 42. Stem 

 shrubby, 2 ft. high, erect, terete ; spines 2 lin. long, subulate from a 

 broad base ; branches stellately hairy when young. Leaves ovate in 

 general outline, sinuately 5-7-lobed, with stellate hairs on both surfaces, 

 those on the upper having one ray much longer than the rest, spiny on 

 the chief nerves, unequal at the base, 3 by 2 in. ; lobes entire, obtuse. 

 Cymes racemose, few-flowered. Calyx-tube cup-shaped ; lobes linear, 

 2 lin. long. Corolla violet or deep purple, 10 lin. in diam., widely 

 campanulate, hairy outside and on the midrib inside ; lobes broadly 

 triangular, about £ in. long; filaments short; anthers \ in. long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, pores small, terminal. Style h in. long, thickened 

 and curved upwards. Berry J in. in diam., globose, black or reddish, 

 smooth. — Dunal in DC. ProdrT xiii. i. 301 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. iv. ii. 96. S. rubetorum, Dunal, I.e. 304. 



