/Solatium.] xci. solanace^e (weight). 229 



54. S. giganteum, Jacq. Collect, iv. 125, and Ic. t. 328. A shrub 

 or tree up to 25 ft. high. Branches terete, tomentose ; spines J-l^ Hn. 

 long, broad-based, much compressed. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 

 4-7 in. long, li-3 in. wide, unarmed, glabrous above, white tomentose 

 beneath. Cymes terminal, corymbose, many-flowered. Calyx cyathi- 

 form, 1-|- lin.in diam. ; lobes 5, ovate-cuneate, acute or shortly acuminate. 

 Corolla 4-5 lin. in diam., white tomentose outside, glabrous within, 

 violet-purple ; lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, 2 lin. long. Stamens 5, uni- 

 form, about half as long as the corolla ; anthers 1 lin. long, pore small, 

 terminal. Ovary globose, glabrous. Berry the size of a pea, glabrous, 

 shining red. — Dunal, Hist. Solan. 202 and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 258 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1921 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 47 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. 

 f. Fl .Brit. Ind. iv. 233 ; Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 52 ; C. H. Wright 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 94. S. niveum, Thunb. Prodr. 36 ; Vahl, Symb. 

 ii. 41. S. farinosum. Wall. Cat. 2610. S. argenteum, Heyne ex Wall. 

 I.e., not of Dunal. 



Nile land. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1338 ! Uganda : between Nandi and 

 Kakanagas, 4000-4500 ft., Whyte I and without precise locality, Wilson, 132 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Usambara, Kwa Msbuza, Hoist, 

 9031 ! Transvaal : Pisang Kops, Zoutpar.s Berg, Nelson, 356 ! 



Also in South Africa and Tndia. 



. 55. S. Renschii, Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 328. A shrub or 

 subshrub. Stem terete, covered when young with ashy-white 

 stellate hairs ; spines 2 lin. long, broad-based. Leaves solitary or 

 geminate, ovate-oblong or elliptic, obtuse, 2-3 in. long, 1^ in. wide, 

 cuneate at the base, dark green above, paler beneath, stellately hairy on 

 both surfaces, more densely on the lower ; petiole f in. long. Cymes 

 corymbose, leaf -opposed ; pedicels incrassate. Calyx cupular, 2 lin. 

 long, stellately hairy outside, unarmed ; lobes 5, obtuse. Corolla 5- 

 partite, stellately hairy outside, glabrous within ; lobes linear, acute, 

 \ in. long. Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile, oblong, pores terminal. 

 Ovary globose, glabrous ; style rather longer than the stamens, glabrous. 

 Berry globose, \ in. in diam., brownish-yellow, shining. — Engl. PH. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 352. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Mount Ndi, Hildebrandt, 2484 ! Scott- 

 Elliot, 6216 ! Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2735 ! Sultan Lamond, Kassner, 656 ! 

 Makindu River, 3200 ft., Kassner, 565 ! Tavet.i, near Kilimanjaro, 2000 ft. ; 

 Johnston ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: near Tete, Kirk! 



56. S. vagans, G. H. Wright hi Kew Bulletin, 1894, 128. Stem woody, 

 branched, terete, furnished with minute brown stellate hairs ; spines 

 short, compressed, recurved from a broad base. Leaves solitary, oblong- 

 lanceolate, entire or lobed, acute or acuminate, 3 in. long, 1 in. wide, 

 tapering towards the base, covered on both surfaces with small brownish 

 stellate hairs ; petiole |- in. long. Cymes extra-axillary. Calyx cupular, 

 4-toothed and -ribbed, stellately brown pubescent outside. Corolla 

 rotate ; tube shorter than the calyx ; lobes 4, ligulate, ^ in. long, 1 lin. 



