236 xci. soLANACEiE (wkight). [Solatium. ■ 



spiny calyx. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 332 (incl. var. longipetiolatum, 

 sub-vars. aculeatum and subinerme), not of Hist. Solan. 240 ; A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 104; Schweinf. PL Nilot. 24, t. 8, and in Verh. 

 Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xv. (1865) 551; Vatke in Linnaea, xliii. 331; 

 Zarb in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 31 ; Terrace, in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 

 v. 103. ; 



Nile Xiand. Nubia : by the Nile between Shendy and Berber, Bromfield, ■ 

 127! Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 1377! 1378! Coast region, Lord! 

 Bent ! Sudan : Khartoum, Kotschy, 344, Broun ! Kordofan : Abu Gerail, Kotschy, 

 39 ! Bareus, Pfund, 473 ! Jebel Kurbag, Pfund, 356 ! Kagmar, Pfund, 104, Sigei, 

 Pfund, 248 ! Darfur : Gebel Barkin, Pfund, 652 ! Sennar, Kotschy, 263 ! Eritrea : 

 Shoho, Quartin Dillon, Riippell. 



Also in Arabia. 



Dunal's two subvariet!es are connected by Pfund, 473. 



73. S. Fischeri, Dammer in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 353. Stem 

 covered with rusty stellate tomentum ; spines few, straight, 2 lin. 

 long, compressed, pale yellow, stellately tomentose at the base. Leaves 

 lanceolate, sinuate-repand, acuminate, oblique at the base, 5 in. long, 

 1-h in. wide, stellately tomentose on both surfaces ; petiole 7-10 lin. 

 long, channelled above, bearing a few short spines. Cymes extra- 

 axillary, racemose ; peduncle and pedicels stellately tomentose, more 

 or less spiny. Calyx 5-partite, stellately tomentose, spiny; lobes 

 subulate. Corolla rotate, rather more than 1 in. in diam., lilac, 

 plicate, 5-fid ; lobes triangular-lanceolate, stellately tomentose outside 

 the midpetaline areas. Filaments short ; anthers equal, ^ in. long, 

 slightly tapering towards the apex. Style a little longer than the 

 stamens, stellately tomentose beyond the middle. Berry globose, 10 lin. 

 in diam., slightly exserted from the enlarged calyx. 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Kageyi on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 

 406. 



74. S. obliquum, Dammer in Engl. Pjt. Ost-Afr. C. 354. Stem 

 slender, terete, minutely stellate pubescent ; spines few, straight, com- 

 pressed, 1 lin. long, hairy in the lower half. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 slightly sinuous, very unequal at the base, 3|- in. long, 1^ in. wide; 

 tfpper surface green and with minute scabrid stellate hairs ; under- 

 surface ashy-grey with stellate hairs ; petiole 7 lin. long, here and there ' 

 spiny. Cymes extra-axillary, racemose, many-flowered ; peduncle, 

 pedicels and outside of calyx densely stellately pubescent. Calyx 

 c-upular; lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate. 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide. Corolla 

 rotate, plicate, about 1 in. in diam. ; lobes 5, acute, stellately pubescent 

 outside the midpetaline areas. Filaments very short ; anthers ^ in. 

 long, pores terminal. Ovary globose ; style clavate, § in. long, stel- 

 lately hairy in the lower half ; stigma oblique. Berry globose, J in. in 

 diam. 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Dar-es-Salaam, Stuhlmann, 7576. 



75. S. urhanianum, Dammer in Engl. Pji. Ost-Afr. C. 355. A 

 shrub. Branches slender, terete, covered with very minute stellate . 



