232 xci. solanacej3 (wright). [Solarium." 



stamens, curved. Berry globose, j in. in diam. — Dunal, Hist. Sol. 203, 

 t: 23, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 260 ; Wight, Ic. t. 345 ; Lowther in 

 Journ. Agri.-Hort. Soc. India, xi. (1861) 290 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 234 ; Kew Bulletin, 1896, 63. S. slramonifolium, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 572. S. ferrugineum, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 46, t. 

 334. S. Mannii, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 129. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 55 ! 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyawx, 329 ! 



Var. compactum, Wright. Leaves less hairy and cymes more congested than in 

 the type. — S. Mannii, var. compactum, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 129 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 749. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : near Ambriz, Welwilsch, 6079 ! Monteiro ! and 

 various other localities, Wehoitsch, 6052 ! 6080 ! 6082 ! 6087 ! 6105 ! 



Throughout the tropics. 



63. S. indicum, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 187, partly. An erect shrub, up 

 to 8 ft. high. Branches terete, densely clothed when young with floccose 

 stellate tomentum ; spines straight. Leaves solitary or geminate, ovate 

 or ovate-oblong, more or less sinuately lobed, acute, 4 in. long, 2 in. . 

 wide ; stellate hairs on the upper surface with one ray much longer 

 than the rest, those on the lower with equal rays. Cymes racemose, 

 few-flowered ; pedicels thickened upwards. Calyx shortly campanulate, 

 densely stellately hairy outside ; lobes shortly triangular. Corolla violet- 

 purple, \- 1 in. in diam., densely stellate-hairy outside when young, less 

 so inside ; lobes lanceolate, acute. Filaments short ; anthers 2 lin. long, 

 lanceolate, pores terminal, minute. Style longer than the anthers. 

 Berries globose, 5 lin. in diam., scarlet, usually several matured on .one 

 cyme, glabrous. Seeds compressed, minutely pitted. — Nees in Trans. _ 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 55 ; Wight, Ic. t. 346 ; Dunal in DO. Prodr. xiii. i. 309 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 234 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 750 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 101 ; var. micran- 

 thum,, Hook f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 18. S. violaceum, Jacq. Fragm. 

 82, t. 132, fig. 1. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 4000 ft., Mann, 625! Cameroons : Cameroon 

 Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1322 ! 1975 ? 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Gera Abuna Tekla, Schimper, 1129! 

 Ankober, Roth, 449 ! Uganda : Mau, 8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6870 ! Eldama Ravine, 

 7000-7500 ft., Whyte! Nandi district, Whytel near Lake Elmenteitu, 6000 ft., 

 Scott-Elliot, 6638! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; Embala de Lopolla, JTelwitsch, 6038 I 



Also extending through India to China and the Philippines. 



64. S. anomalum, Thonn. in Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Gum: PI. 

 126. A shrub. Branches terete, stellately tomentose ; spines \ in. 

 long, recurved or straight from a broad base. Leaves solitary or gemi- 

 nate, ovate-oblong, acute, pinnatifid, stellately hairy on both surfaces, 

 slightly spiny along the midrib ; petiole 1 in. long, channelled above, 

 bearing a few spines. Cymes axillary, racemose ; flowers pendulous. 

 Calyx 4-toothed, stellately hairy outside. Corolla rotate, 4- (rarely 5-) 

 partite, white, stellately hairy outside ; lobes obtuse, concave. Stamens 

 4; filaments very short; anthers 2 lin. long, pores terminal, small. 



