244 xci. solanace^e (wright). [Solatium. 



hairs ; spines straight, £ in. long. Leaves subsessile, bi- to tri-pinnatifid, 

 8 in. long, 5 in. broad, with straight spines | in. long on both surfaces 

 of the principal veins, upper surface with simple straight hairs, under 

 surface with stellate hairs. Cymes racemose, few-flowered ; flowers 

 5-merous. Calyx campanulate, spiny, clothed with long-rayed stellate 

 hairs ; lobes lanceolate-subulate. Corolla mauve, broadly campanulate, 

 about 1^-in. in diam. Filaments very short ; anthers Jin. long, oblong, 

 attenuate, pores terminal, small. Ovary globose ; style as long as the 

 stamens. Fruit globose, 1| in. in diam., white in the upper third, 

 green at the base, with many green branching lines from base to apex. 

 — Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 118 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 354, and 

 Glied. Veg. Usambara, 18 ; Medley Wood, Natal Plants, i. 39, t. 49 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 750 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 

 iv. ii. 98. Solatium no. 3, R. Br. in Speke, Nile, Append. 641. S. 

 Farini, Dammann in Wien. 111. Gartz. 1896, 405, fig. 59. S. Kill- 

 mandschari, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 352. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, Rowland ! Dawodu, 37 ! Gambia, Brown- Lester, 3 1 

 Abeokuta, Harrison, 23 ! 



Wile Land. Abyssinia : Begemeder, Schimper, 1404 ! Niamniarn : by the 

 Nabambisso Biver, Schweinfurtli, 3047 ! Uganda: Ruwenzori ; Kivata, Scott-Elliot, 

 7693 ! Unyoro, Speke fy Grant, 605 ! British East Africa : Bibe, Wakefield ! 



lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; Sange, Welwitsch, 6096 ! Loanda, 

 Gossiveiler, 388 ! Bembe, Monteiro ! 



TVTo2.amfo.Dist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro; road to Moschi, Volkens, 

 1729 ; Dar es Salaam, Kirk ! Portugese East Africa ; on the mainland and island 

 of Mozambique, Peters, between Senna and Lupata, Kirk ! 



Var. semifflabntm, C. H. Wright. Differs from the type in having small spines, 

 fewer hairs on the leaves, smaller flowers and calyx-lobes suddenly subulate from a 

 broad base. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 1344 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



94. S. dasyphyllum, Thonn. in Schumach. <h Thonn. Beskr. Guin- 

 Pl. 126. Stem subherbaceous, branched, terete, tomentose. Leaves 

 subsessile, broadly cuneate, with angular lobes, 1 ft. long, 8 in. wide, 

 with branched hairs on both surfaces ; spines on both surfaces of the 

 larger nerves subulate, straight, compressed, J in. long. Racemes leaf- 

 opposed, 4-8-flowered ; pedicels cernuous, |— J in. long. Calyx 5-par- 

 tite, rather woolly, spiny ; lobes lanceolate, subacuminate, patent. 

 Corolla rotate, blueish, f in. in diam., villous outside the midpetaline 

 areas. Stamens 5, equal, about half as long as the corolla ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers oblong-linear. Ovary subglobose ; style filiform : 

 stigma obtuse. Berry subglobose, size of a large apple, dusky yellow. 



Upper Guinea. Cultivated ground, Thonning. 



Imperfectly known species. 



95. S. africanum, Dunal, Hist. Solan. 238; Syn. Solan. 48. 

 Leaves much and deeply crenate. Fruit baccate. — DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 372. 

 Africa, without precise locality, ex Dunal. 



