242 xci. solanace.e (weight). [Solarium. 



Nile Land. Sennar, Acerbi, ex Dunal. 

 Mozamb. Bist. Zanzibar, Rildebrandt, 987 ! 



Var. cinereo-tomentosum, Dunal, I.e. Branches, undersurfaee of leaves, peduncles, 

 pedicels and outside of calyx and corolla ashy-grey tomentose. 

 Mile Land. Sennar, Kotschy, 333 ! 



89. S. antidotum, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 355. A 

 shrub. Branches terete, densely covered with stellate hairs ; spines 

 straight, compressed, hairy at the base, Leaves ovate, slightly sinuate, 

 obtuse, mucronate, about 2 in. long, 1^ in. wide, densely stellately 

 tomentose on both surfaces ; nerves very prominent below, shortly 

 spiny ; petiole 5 lin. long, stellately tomentose, spiny. Calyx cupular ; 

 teeth 5, triangular-lanceolate, 1| lin. long. Corolla rotate, 10 lin. in 

 diam., deeply 5-lobed ; lobes -g in. long, 2 lin. wide, oblong-oval, densely 

 covered with minute stellate hairs outside. Filaments very short ; 

 anthers J in. long, slightly attenuate towards the apex. Ovary sub- 

 globose ; style stellately tomentose at the base. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Pare Moeta, Fischer, 314. 



90. S. Melongena, Linn. Sp. PI. eel. i. 186. A robust herb or 

 almost a shrub, spiny. Branches terete, usually dark purple, clothed 

 with sessile stellate hairs. Leaves ovate, repand or sinuate, acuminate, 

 unequal at the base, 6-9 in. long, 3-5 in. wide, stellately tomentose on 

 both surfaces, unarmed, rarely spiny ; petiole 1 in. long, spiny. Flowers 

 solitary, or few in a cyme with the lowest alone fertile, 5-9-merous. 

 Calyx often spiny, ^ in. in diam., enlarging in fruit; lobes unequal, 

 linear-lanceolate. Corolla violet-purple, 1-1 -|- in. in diam., stellately 

 hairy on both surfaces; lobes 4-5 lin. long, triangular, acute. Fila- 

 ments short ; anthers J— J in. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pores 

 apical, small. Style 2-3 lin. long, slightly curved, stellately hairy at 

 the base. Berry oblong or slightly enlarged above, 6 in. long, blackish- 

 purple ; placentas fleshy. — Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 48 ; Sendtn. 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 77 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 235 

 partly; Duthie, Field & Gard. Crops, iii. 31, t. 95; Hiern in Cat. 

 Air. PL Welw. i. 748 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 99 ; 

 Baum, Kunene-Samb. Expecl. 496. S. escitlentum, Dunal, Hist. Solan. 

 208, t. 3 ; and in DC. Proclr. xiii. i. 355 ; Engl. died. Veg. Usambara, 

 22, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 355. S. edule, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. 

 Cuin. PI. 125 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 231 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 355. 



Upper Guinea. Liigos, Roivlancl ! Northern Nigeria ; Kuka, Yogel, 28 ! 



Nile Land. Somali Land, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: near Pemba and near the River Lucala, Welwitsch, 

 6083 ! near Ngombe, Welwitsch, 6084 ! German South-west Africa : Hereroland, 

 Luderitz, 13 ! 



TVIozamb. Bist. Zanzibar, Peters. German E;ist Africa : Rovuraa River, 

 Kirk ! 



Var. inerine, Hiern, I.e. Stem woody, unarmed. Stamens 6. Ovary globose, 

 4- celled. — S. esculentum, var. inerine, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 355 ; Baum, 

 Kunene Samb. Exped. 361, 443. 



