238 xci. solanace.e (wright). [Solanum. 



surface green, scabrid with very minute stellate hairs and bearing 

 scattered spines 1 lin. long ; lower surface with rusty stellate pubescence, 

 sometimes spiny ; margin sometimes slightly sinuate ; petiole short, with 

 stellate pubescence and scattered spines. Cymes racemose, at first 

 apparently terminal, few-flowered ; peduncle and pedicels unarmed, 

 clothed with rusty stellate hairs ; pedicels slender, 1 in. long. Calyx 

 cupular, 5-toothed ; teeth 2 lin. long. Corolla pale blue, rotate, plicate, 

 5-partite, 14 lin. in diam. ; lobes lanceolate, acute, stellately hairy out- 

 side the midpetaline areas. Filaments very short ; anthers elongate, 

 attenuate upwards. Ovary globose ; style 5 lin. long, filiform, glandular 

 hairy below. Berry ellipsoid, 7 lin. long, 5 lin. in diam., yellow? 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara; Nderema, Hoist, 2231, 

 Gonja, Hoist, 4231. 



79. S. incanum, Linn. Sp. PI. eel. 1, 188. A shrub 3-5 ft. high, 

 with dense stellate tomentum on the branches, petioles, underside of 

 leaves and outside of calyx and corolla. Branches terete ; spines few 

 or many, 2 lin. long, curved, broad at the base. Leaves ovate or ovate- 

 elliptic, sinuate, 5 by 2-3 in., obtuse, green and minutely stellately hairy 

 on the upper surface, unequal at the base, sometimes spiny on the midrib 

 and nerves; petiole 15 lin. long. Flowers solitary or few together (the 

 lower only fertile), cernuous ; peduncle short. Calyx spiny outside, cup- 

 shaped ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla purple or white, f-lj 

 in. in diam. ; lobes ovate, acute. Filaments very short ; anthers 2|- 

 lin. long, oblong, pores small, terminal. Style longer than the stamens. 

 Fruit subglobose, 1^ in. in diam., yellow. — C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. iv. ii. 101. S. coagulans, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt.-Arab. 47 ; Del. Fl. 

 Egypte, 63, t. 23, fig. 7 ; Schenk, PI. Sp, ^Egypt. 24 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, 

 iv. 286 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 236 ; var. griseum, 

 Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 369. S, sanctum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 269. 

 S. esculentum, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 49, 138, 139, 151, 

 not of Dunal. S. subexarmatum, Dunal, I.e. 367. &'. Melongena, C. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 235, partly, not of Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Jeba on the Kworra (Niger), Barter! 



Nile land. Nubia : ScJiweinfurth, 1388 ! Bent / Kordofan, Kotschy, 454 ! 

 Obeid, Pfund, 8 ! Darfur, Pfund, 106 ! Sennar, Kotschy, 231 ! Blue Nile, near 

 Masheika, Muriel, S 31! Eritrea: near Acrur, Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1343! near 

 Ailet, Schweinfurth fy Riva, 445 ! Abyssinia : near Jelajeranne, Schim.per, 1574! 

 Sonialiland : Golis Range, Miss Edith Cole ! Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schiveinfurth, iii, 

 89 ! Uganda : Busoga villages, Whyte I 5th inarch from Lub-was, Whyte ! 

 Kavirondo, Whyte ! British East Africa : Kikuyn, Whyte ! near Nairobi, Whyte ! 

 Makindu River, Kassner, 580 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Benguela, Curror, 12 ! 



Mozamb, Dist. German East Africa : Usambara, Buchwald, 93 ! British 

 Central Africa : Ngamiland, Kwebe Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 18! 



Also in South Africa and extending through Arabia to Scinde and the Punjaub. 



An almost glabrous form of this was collected at Gallabat by Schweinfurth 

 (1365 !) and in Kordofan by Pfund (149!). 



