Solatium.] xci. solanace^e (vvright). 241 



depressed, globose, yellow, glabrous, size of a pigeon's egg. — Klotzscb 

 in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 235 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. G. 355. S. 

 suaveolens, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 239, partly, not of Kunth & Bouche. 



iVTozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Peters. German East Africa : several localities, 

 ex Enijler. 



Var. sinuato-repandum, Dunal, I.e. 345. Branches fuscous, naked at the base. 

 Leaves lanceolate, sinuate-repand. Racemes 2-fid ; flowers many, crowded. Style 

 glabrous. — Klotzsch, I.e. 235. S. suaveolens, Bojer, I.e., partly. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara, ex Engler, Portuguese 

 East Africa : Lower Zambesi at Tete, and on the mainland and island of Mozambique. 

 Peters. 



Also in the Mascarene Islands. 



86. S. monotanthran, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 474. A 

 shrub, about 3 ft. high. Branches elongated, densely stellate-tomen- 

 tose, spines compressed, recurved. Leaves ovate, undulate-repand, 

 6 in. long, 2l 2 in. broad, scabricl on both surfaces, green above, paler 

 and spiny on the midrib beneath; petiole 1^ in. long. Inflorescence 

 extra-axillary, racemose ; lowest flower in the axil of the raceme ; 

 rhachis densely stellate- pilose ; lowest pedicel spiny, the rest unarmed, 

 up to \ in. long. Calyx cup-shaped, angled ; teeth 4, subulate. 

 Corolla violet, 1 in. in cliam. ; lobes 4, long ovate-lanceolate, stellately 

 hairy outside. Stamens 4; filaments short, glabrous; anthers i- in. 

 long, tapering upwards. Ovary globose, glabrous ; style a little longer 

 than the stamens. Fruit 5 lin. in cliam. Seeds reniform, tuberculate. 



Mozamb. Hist. German East Africa : Khutu Steppe, Qoetze, 113. 



87. S. hybridum, Jacq. Hort. Vinci, ii. 51, t. 113. A branched 

 shrub, 2-5 ft. high. Stem terete, glabrous; spines small, distant, 

 compressed ; branches tomentose. Leaves geminate, ovate, acute, 

 sinuate or entire, 3 in. long, 2 in. wide, stellately tomentose on both 

 surfaces, petioled. Cymes racemose, umbellate or reduced to a single 

 flower. Calyx tomentose ; tube spiny ; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla 

 1 in. in diam., pale purple, 5-fid ; lobes broadly triangular. Stamens 

 half as long as the corolla-lobes. Berry pendulous, subrotund, 1 in. in 

 diam., orange-red. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 298. 

 Guinea. Ex Dunal. 

 Wile Land. Gallabat : near Hainmad, Schweiwfurth, 1387 ! 



88. S. cerasiferum, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 365. Stem 

 branched, cylindrical, minutely stellately hairy ; spines generally 

 straight. Leaves oblong, acute, 2^ in. long, li in. wide, pinnately 

 lobed, furnished with minute stellate hairs and a few rigid spines on 

 both surfaces. Cymes racemose. Calyx campanulate, 10-ribbecl, densely 

 stellately hairy, sparingly spiny ; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate. Corolla 

 campanulate, f in. in diam., violet, densely stellately hairy outside ; 

 lobes 5, lanceolate, acute. Stamens 5 ; anthers J in. long, subsessile. 

 Ovary subglobose, hairy at the apex ; soyle terete, elongate, covered 

 with stellate hairs. Berry yellow.— Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356. 



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