Solatium.'] xci. solanace^e (weight). 235 



numerous, short, recurved, compressed. Leaves solitary, ovate, pin- 

 nately lobed, cordate or acute at the base, 3 in. long, 2 in. broad, 

 stellately hairy and with short curved spines on the chief veins on both 

 surfaces ; petiole 1 in. long, densely beset with short recurved spines. 

 Cymes few-flowered, leaf-opposed. Calyx campanulate, clothed with 

 stellate hairs, and numerous small spines at the base ; lobes 5, broadly 

 triangular. Corolla campanulate, 2 in. in diam., stellately hairy out- 

 side and along the midrib inside ; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 in, 

 long, i in. wide. Stamens 5 ; filaments short ; anthers lanceolate, 

 -I in. long, pores terminal, small. Ovary globose, stellately hairy ; 

 style 1 in. long, thickened and curved above. — Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 353. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Anjoana Island, Peters. British 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Buchanan, 36 ! Scott ! Mount Mlanji 

 Whyte ! Tanganyika-Moero Plateau, Carson, 30 ! Zomba and vicinity, Whyte ; 

 2800-3500 ft., Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 491 ! 



Also in Madagascar. 



71. S. marginatum, Linn.f. Suppl. 147. A shrub, 3-4 ft. high. 

 Stem terete, covered with white stellate tomentum ; spines subulate, 1 

 in. long. Leaves ovate, pinnately lobed less than half-way to the mid- 

 rib, subcordate at the base, coriaceous, 3-7 in. long, 2-5 in. wide, 

 covered with fine white stellate pubescence which in age disappears 

 from the upper surface except near the margin, spines on the principal 

 veins often 1 in. long. Cymes extra-axillary, subumbellate ; pedicels, 

 outside of calyx and corolla covered with white stellate tomentum. 

 Calyx campanulate, 4 lin. long, 5-fid, spiny ; lobes narrow, acute. 

 Corolla broadly campanulate, \\ in. in diam., white, centre and midrib 

 pink. Stamens 5 ; filaments very short ; anthers \ in. long, pores 

 terminal. Fruit globose, H in. in diam., shining yellow. — Jacq. Collect. 

 i. 50, and Ic. t. 45 ; Murr. Comm. Gotting. vi. (1783), t. 4 ; Dunal, 

 Hist. Solan. 215, t. 3, fig. A, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 370 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1928; Yatke in Linnsea, xliii. 332. S. abyssinicum, J acq. ex Vitm. 

 Summa PI. i. 492. *S'. niveum, All. ex Vitm. 1. c. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 181 ! Samen ; Genausa, 

 Scliimper, 1316 ! Chelicut, Petit, 228 ! Eritrea : Saganeiti, Schweinfurth Sf Miva, 

 830 ! Hamasen ; Sasega, Steudner, 716 ! 



72. S. dubium, Freseti. Mus. Senck. i. 166. Shrubby. Branches 

 flexuose, spiny or unarmed, clothed with whitish leprose tomentum. 

 Leaves long petioled, the upper geminate unequally cordate, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, repand-sinuate, acuminate or obtuse, with adpressed 

 stellate tomentum on both surfaces, pale green above, white beneath, 

 4 by 2 in. Cymes short, few-flowered. Calyx cyathiform or campanu- 

 late, I in. in diam., spiny. Corolla violet, stellately hairy outside, 

 plicate, 5-fid; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, renexed. Stamens 5, one 

 longer than the rest; anthers oblong, obtuse, pore terminal. Ovary 

 globose, hirsute at the apex; style thickened upwards, declinate. 

 Berry globose, |-J in. in diam., yellow, nearly covered by the inflated 



