Solatium.'] xci. solanace^e (wright). 233 ■ 



Ovary subglobose; style filiform, longer than the anthers. Fruit erect, 

 globose, glabrous, red, 5 lin. indiam. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 259 ;- 

 Hook. Niger. Fl. 473. S. umbrosum, Vahl ex Dunal, I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Yogel, 87 ! French Guinea : Sulimama, 

 Scott-Elliot, 5335b ! Liberia : Cape Palmas, Vogel, 13 ! Grand Bassa. Vogel, 83 ! 

 Grant's Farm, Sinoe River, Whyte ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 482 ! 

 Lagos : Abeokuta, Harrison, 3 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 52 ! Mann, 1165 ! 



NTile land. Uganda : Busoga villages, Whyte ! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 

 7290 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Malange, Gossweiler, 1103 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; Kussumbo River, Schivein- 

 furth, 3175 ! Niamniam ; Assika River, Schweinfurth, 3280 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Mount Chiradzulu, 

 Whyte ! 



65. S. adoense, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 24. A shrub, 

 4-5 ft. high. Stem terete, woody, stellately hairy when young, rugose 

 when old ; spines -|- in. long, straight, compressed. Leaves solitary or 

 geminate, ovate, pinnately 5-7-lobed, 2 in. long, 1^ in. wide, stellately 

 hairy and spiny on both surfaces, spines more numerous beneath ; 

 petiole |- in. long. Cymes racemose ; peduncle 1 in. long ; pedicels 

 v.- in. long, erect in flower, pendulous in fruit, clavate, spiny, stellately 

 tomentose. Calyx cyathiform, 5-fid, stellately tomentose and slightly 

 spiny outside; lobes triangular, acute. Corolla white, 5-partite, stel- 

 lately tomentose outside, glabrous within ; lobes lanceolate, \ in. long. 

 Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile, 2 lin. long, subulate, pores small, 

 terminal. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style filiform, nearly twice as long as 

 the stamens. Fruit globose, 5 lin. in diam., glabrous, orange-red. — 

 Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 282 ; Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 326; Peters, 

 Reise Mossamb. Bot. 232 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 353. ' S. pachycalyx," 

 Tan Heurck & Mull. Arg. in Yan Heurck, Obs. Bot. 92. 



Nile land. Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 147 ! Franqueville ! Mount 

 Sholoda, Schimper, 1855 ! Eritrea : near Saganeiti, 7000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 

 1758 ! Goua Gorge, near Addingofou, 7000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1329 ! 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Olukonda, S china, 

 872 ! 



6G. S. Carvalhoi, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. G. 355. 

 Branches violet, densely covered with rusty stellate tomentum ; spines 

 straight, compressed, 2 lin.. long. Leaves ovate, repand, acuminate, 



4 in. long, nearly 3 in. wide, scabrid with stellate hairs above, more 

 minutely so beneath, slightly spiny on both surfaces; spines straight, 

 compressed, \ in. long; petiole 1 in. long, stellately pubescent, spiny. 

 Cymes extra-axillary, racamose, short, few-flowered; peduncle, pedicels 

 and calyx very densely stellately hairy. Calyx cupular, 2 lin. in diam. ; 

 teeth 5, triangular. Corolla 5-partite; lobes 2 lin. long, ^ lin. wide, 

 linear, stellately hairy outside. Filaments short ; anthers elongate, . 

 scarcely attenuate towards the apex, 2 lin. long. Ovary globose; style 

 2 lin. long, filiform, stellately hairy in the lower half. Berry globose, 



5 lin. in diam., shining red. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Gorongoza, Carvalho. 



