Solanum.] xci. solanace^e (wright). 231 



partite; lobes subulate, 1| lin. long. Corolla bright blue, 5-partite, 

 I in. in diam., scarcely plicate ; lobes linear-lanceolate, J in. long, 1 lin. 

 wide, acuminate, rusty tomentose outside the midpetaline areas. Fila- 

 ments very short ; anthers \ in. long, attenuate towards the apex. 

 Ovary globose ; style filiform, glabrous, I in. long. Berry ellipsoid, 

 £ in. long, £ in. in diam. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usanibara,- Masheua, Bumko, Hoist, 

 8834. 



60. S. unguiculatum, .4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 102. A spiny 

 densely tomentose shrub. Branches terete ; spines recurved, wide- 

 based. Leaves solitary or geminate, oval, acute or subobtuse, obsoletely 

 sinuate, unequally cordate at the base, with yellowish -green tomentum 

 on both surfaces or sometimes paler beneath, petiolate. Cymes lateral, 

 few-flowered ; peduncle long, tomentose ; lowest flower alone fertile, on 

 a longer reflexed pedicel. Calyx tomentose, spiny, 5-fid ; lobes triangular, 

 acute. Corolla the same size as that of S. tuberosum, 5-partite ; lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, densely tomentose outside, slightly tomentose within.. 

 — Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 91, and in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien^ 

 xv. (1865) 551 ; Yatke in Linnsea, xliii. 332. 



Nile Xiand. Nubia : Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth. Abyssinia : Shireh 

 Province, Quartin-Dillon Sf Petit. 



61. S. Rohrii, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 128. A small 

 shrub. Stem terete, covered with long-rayed stellate hairs ; spines 

 numerous, |- in. long, straight, compressed. Leaves solitary, lanceolate, 

 4 in. long, 2 in. wide, slightly undulate, with stellate hairs on both sur- 

 faces, those on the upper surface with one ray much longer than the 

 rest. Cymes extra-axillary. Calyx 4-lobed almost to the base, hairy 

 and spiny outside; lobes linear, 2 lin. long. Corolla J in. in diam., 

 4- partite, densely white stellate hairy outside ; lobes lanceolate. Stamens 

 4 ; anthers sessile, slightly shorter than the corolla-lobes, tapering up- 

 wards, pores terminal. Ovary globose ; style terete, stellately hairy. 

 Berry globose, A- in. in diam., glabrous, red. 



Nile land. Abyssinia : Ankober, Roth (not Rohr, as in original description), 

 445 ! Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole ! Uganda : Kavirondo, 4100-6000 ft., 

 Whyte I 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mwata Manja stream, 

 Kirk! 



62. S. torvum, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 47. A shrub, 3-10 ft. 

 high. Branches terete, covered with white stellate tomentum when 

 young; spines compressed, \ in. long. Leaves geminate (one much 

 smaller), ovate, 6 in. long, 4 in. wide, more or less pinnately lobed, un- 

 equal at the base ; petiole 1 in. long, spiny. Cymes extra-axillary, 

 much branched, at first nearly umbellate ; pedicels with glandular hairs. 

 Calyx cupular, glandular hairy; segments lanceolate. Corolla rotate, 

 white, 1 in. in diam., stellately hairy outside in bud; lobes 5, ovate- 

 lanceolate. Filaments 1 lin. long ; anthers \ in. long, linear-lanceolate; 

 pores terminal, small. Ovary globose, glabrous; style longer than the 



