234 xci. solanacEjE (weight). \_8olanum. 



67. S. schumannianum, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. G. 352.. 

 Branches woody, terete, erect, densely setose when young, spiny when 

 old. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, 4^ in. 

 long, 2 in. wide, covered with minute stellate hairs when young, at 

 length glabrous ; petiole about 1 in. long. Inflorescence extra-axillary, 

 paniculate ; branches short, bearing umbels of flowers at their apices ; 

 peduncle setose ; pedicels and calyx pulverulent-tomentose, pedicels 

 ^ in. long. Calyx cupshaped, 5-toothed. Corolla rotate ; lobes 5-6, 

 linear, 2 lin. long, | lin. wide. Filaments very short ; anthers 2 lin. 

 long, subulate, pores terminal. Style filiform, ^ in. long, stellately 

 tomentose near the base ; stigma obliquely bifid. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara; on the ascent to Magamba 

 Forest, Moist, 3841. 



68. S. xantho carp urn, var. Schraderi, Dunal in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. i. 302. A spiny herb. Stem erect, terete, flexuose, branched, 

 slightly stellately hairy when young ; spines short, straight, subulate. 

 Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pinnately 5-9-lobed, up to 5 by 

 3 in., with minute distant stellate hairs on both surfaces, and spines on 

 the upper side of the midrib ; petiole 1 in. long, spiny. Cymes extra- 

 axillary, 5-8-flowered. Calyx ovoid, sparingly stellate-hairy outside ; 

 lobes ovate, acuminate. Corolla about 1 in. in diam., blue-purple, 

 densely stellate-hairy outside the midpetaline areas, slightly hairy 

 inside. Stamens 5, equal ; filaments very short, broad ; anthers \ in. 

 long, oblong, pores terminal. Ovary subglobose, hirsute ; style 

 thickened above, curved at the apex. Berry globose, size of a cherry, 

 shining yellow. — Schweinf. PI. Nilot. 25, t. 9. See note in Hook. f. 

 M. Brit, Ind. iv. 236. 



Nile Land. Senaar, ex Schweinfurth. Gallabat, Schtoeinfurth, 1365 ! 

 Fashoda, Schtoeinfurth, 1081 ! Kordofan : Abu Haraza and Abu Felagi, Pfund, 

 149 ! Mulbes, Pfund, 661 ! Bahr el Gebel, at Kanissa, Muriel, S, 77 ! Banks of 

 the White Nile, Petherick ! Niamniam : Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 3094 ! 



69. S. Thruppii, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 129. Stem 

 erect, terete, sparingly furnished with stellate hairs ; spines straight, 

 compressed, A in. long. Leaves solitary, ovate, sinuately 7-9-lobed, 

 unequal and acute at the base, 5 by 4 in., stellately hairy on both 

 surfaces and spiny on the principal veins ; petiole 2-3 in. long, chan- 

 nelled above, spiny. Cymes corymbose, much shorter than the leaves. 

 Calyx campanulate, -h in. in diam., stellately hairy, spiny ; lobes 5, 

 ovate, acuminate. Corolla rotate, purple, 1^ in. in diam., densely 

 stellately hairy outside the midpetaline areas, glabrescent within ; lobes 

 5, elliptic, | in. long, 2 lin. wide. Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile, 

 oblong, \ in. long, pores oblique. Ovary ovoid, hairy above ; style 

 rather longer than the stamens. 



Nile land. Somaliland: Hahi, Boobi and Adda Galla, James fy Thrupp ! 



70. S. acanthocalyx, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb.Bot. 232. 

 A shrub 2-6 ft. high. Branches terete, stellately hairy; spines 



