Solamtm.} xci. solanace^e (wright). 243 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vogel, 52 ! North-east from Sierra Leone, 

 Garrett, 22 ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 351 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : near Sange, Welwitsch, 6091 ! by the River 

 Cuango, Welwitsch, 6092 ! by the River Luinha in Queta, Welioitseh, 6093 ! Banza 

 do Sobato Bango, WelwitscJi, 6094 ! by the Quiriri River above Sakkemecho, 

 3900 ft., Baum, 725 ! 



Mozamo. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Hoist, 2829 ! 



91. S. kitivuense, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 353 

 Branches slender, terete, stellately tonientose ; spines straight or 

 slightly reflexecl, 1 in. long. Leaves ovate, oval or lanceolate, obtuse 

 or acute, sinuate-repand, 2h in. long, lh in. wide, green and stellately 

 pubescent above, rusty stellate-tomentose beneath, more or less spiny 

 on both surfaces ; petiole 7 lin. long, spiny, stellate-tomentose. Racemes 

 extra-axillary; peduncle and pedicels stellate-tomentose, spiny here 

 and there. Calyx cupular, stellate-tomentose outside, 5-partite ; lobes 

 2 lin. long, subulate. Corolla rotate, 10 lin. in diam., stellate-tomen- 

 tose outside ; lobes linear, acute, 5 lin. long, 1 lin. wide. Filaments 

 short; anthers J in. long, tapering to the apex. Ovary subglobose, 

 glabrous ; style glabrous, 5 lin. long ; stigma oblique, bifid. Immature 

 berry ellipsoid. 



Iffozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usaramo ; Bunbe, Stuhlmann, 7026 ; 

 Usambara ; Kitivu, Hoist, 276. 



92. S. aculeastrum, Duncdin DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 366. A shrub, 

 7-15 ft. high ; stem terete, with short dense white stellate tomentum on 

 the younger parts ; spines very large, f- in. long, compressed, recurved. 

 Leaves geminate or ternate, green above, with dense white stellate 

 tomentum beneath and spines on the midrib. Cymes extra-axillary, 

 racemose, lowest flower alone fertile. Calyx cupular, 5-fid, enlarged in 

 fruit ; lobes 2 lin. long, spiny and covered with stellate tomentum 

 outside. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed ; lobes linear, 1-nerved, ^ in. long, 



1 lin. broad, white or yellowish, stellately hairy outside, glabrous within. 

 Stamens 5 ; filaments very short ; anthers |- in. long, pores terminal, 

 small. Ovary globose, stellately hairy ; style short. Berry globose, 



2 in. in diam., smooth, yellow. — C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 

 95. S.sodomceii,m, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 147, not of 

 Linn. 



Mozamb. Dist. Uganda: Nandi, 7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6977! between 

 Nandi and Kakama S as, 4000-4500 ft,, Whyte ! Ruwenzori forest, 8000 ft., Scott- 

 Elliot, 7778 ! British Central Africa : JSTyasaland ; Blantyre, Scott ! Shire High- 

 lands, Buchanan, 138 ! Mount Sochi, Metier, 5 ! forest between Lake Shirwa and 

 Lake Chiuta, Cunningham, 25 ! 



'' The native* eat the outer part of the fruit, which, when ripe, is yellow and 

 hard. The inner portion is dreadfully hitter." — Buchanan. 



Also in South Africa. 



93. S. duplosismatum, Klotzsch in Peters, Eeise Mossamb. Bot. 

 233. A shrub, about 3 ft. high. Stem covered when young with stellate 



