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



83. S. magnusianum, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 475. 

 A shrub about 3 ft. high. Branches flexuous, at first stellately 

 tomentose, at length glabrescent ; spines compressed, recurved. Leaves 

 ovate, repand, often oblique at the base, green and minutely stellately 

 scabrid above, paler and densely stellately tomentose beneath, up to 

 4 in. long and 2 in. wide ; petiole 10 lin. long, often spiny. Cymes 

 racemose ; pedicels and calyx of the fertile flower usually spiny, of the 

 sterile usually unarmed. Calyx stellately tomentose outside ; lobes 



-lanceolate, acute. Corolla ultramarine, up to If in. in diam., stellately 

 tomentose outside and on the midribs inside ; lobes 5, broadly lanceo- 

 late. Stamens 5; filaments very short ; anthers 5 lin. long, lanceolate, 

 terminal pores small. Ovary globose ; style f in. long, stellately hairy ; 

 stigma 2-lobed. Fruit globose, If in. in diam., orange-yellow, seated 

 on the persistent spiny calyx ; pedicel incrassate. Seeds reniform, 

 tuberculate. 



RXozamb. X>ist, German East Africa: Usagara ; at the foot of the Vidunda 

 • Mountains near Kidodi, Goelze, 384! 



84. S. bathocladon, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 476. 

 Branches stellately tomentose, at length nearly glabrous ; spines re- 

 curved, 1-1-i lin. long. Leaves ovate, repand or sinuate, 4 in. long, 

 2^ in. broad, scabrid with stellate hairs above, paler and densely 

 tomentose beneath, with straight spines on both surfaces; petiole about 

 1 in. long, with many recurved spines. Cymes extra-axillary, race- 

 mose, few-flowered, l| in. long; peduncle and pedicels spiny, densely 

 stellate-tomentose. Calyx 4-5-fid, stellate-tomentose and densely spiny 

 outside ; lobes \ in. long, lanceolate. Corolla rotate, violet, plicate, 

 .1^ in. in diam. ; lobes 4-5, broadly ovate, mucronate, densely stellate- 

 tomentose outside. Stamens 4-5, equal ; filaments glabrous, \ lin. 

 long; anthers yellow, 5 lin. long, tapering towards the apex. Ovary 

 conical, glabrous ; style 7 lin. long, stellate-pilose; stigma 2-lobed. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : East Uluguru ; in deserted fields near 

 Lnssegwa, 1600 ft., Stuhlmann, 8731 ! 



85. S. Bojeri, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 344. Branches terete, 

 covered with pale yellow stellate hairs, unarmed or with a few recurved 

 compressed spines. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, subcordate at 

 the base, 4-6 in. long, about 2 in. wide, entire or subrepand, stellately 

 hairy on both surfaces, yellowish-green above, paler beneath ; petiole 

 7-8 lin. long. Cymes racemose, simple or bifid ; flowers large, fragrant, 

 lowest alone fertile, the other 4-5 male; peduncle, pedicels, outside 

 of calyx and corolla covered with pale yellow stellate tomentum. Calyx 

 broadly campanulate, \-\ in. in diam., unarmed in the sterile flowers; 

 lobes 5, ovate- cuneate, cuspidate. Corolla 1 in. in diam., lilac, plicate; 

 lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, reflexed, hairy on the midrib inside. 

 Stamens 5, equal, J-| in. long ; filaments dilated at the base, subcom- 

 planate, up to 1 lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, \ in. long, dull 

 yellow. Ovary ovoid, clothed with rusty tomentum ; style decimate, 

 subterete, tomentose except at the apex; stigma capitate. Berry 



