Solatium.] xci. solanace^e (weight). 245 



96. S. congense, Link, Enum. i. 187. Stem tomentose; spines 

 straight, ^ in. long. Leaves ovate, sinuate, tapering into the petiole, 

 6 in. long, 5 in. wide, tomentose, spiny on the midrib. Peduncle many - 

 flowered, thick, much shorter than the pedicels. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 tomentose ; lobes obtuse. Corolla deeply 5 -lobe d, blue ; lobes tomen- 

 tose outside. Anthers distinct, equal. 



Lower Guinea. Congo, ex Link. 



97. S. Crepini, Van Heurck, Obs. Lot. 89. A shrub, armed in 

 all its parts with stout straight prickles. Branches terete, with short 

 deciduous hairs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, sinuately lobed, acute, trun- 

 cate and unequal at the base, 2-4 in. long, clothed with numerous short 

 stellate hairs and bearing straight spines on both surfaces. Cyme heli- 

 coid ; basal flower hermaphrodite, the others male. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 5-partite ; lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 7 lin. long, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5 ; anthers J in. long, subsessile. Ovary conical ; 

 style slightly longer than the stamens. 

 Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieber. 



98. S. Hildebrandtii, A. Br. <£• Louche, Ltid. Sem. Hart. Berol. 

 1S74, 18 ; Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 325, name only. 



Wile Xiand. Somaliland : Ahl Mountains. Hildebrandf, 865 ; Maid, Hilcle- 

 irandt, 1412. 



Native name " Aio." 



99. S. macilentum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 105. A spiny 

 shrub. Branches slender, ashy-tomentose ; spines compressed, re- 

 curved. Leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, subentire or 

 slightly sinuate, thinly membranous, pilose, petioled. Cymes lateral on 

 a long peduncle, usually 2-forked, many-flowered, tomentose ; flowers 

 polygamous, the basal on each branch hermaphrodite and long-pedicellecl. 

 Calyx unarmed, obsoletely 5-toothed. Corolla-lobes oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, tomentose outside. Anthers uniform. Berry globose, glabrous, 

 fusiform. 



Wile Land. Eritrea : Sholio, Quartin Dillon. 



100. S. pruinosum, var. pilosulum, Dunalin DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 



59. Herbaceous. Branches finely white pruinose. Leaves cuneate- 

 rhomboid, 2-3 in. long, about 1 in. wide, almost glabrous above, 

 minutely white hairy beneath. Racemes 6-7-flowered. Peduncle, 

 pedicels, calyx and corolla hispid with short white hairs. Corolla white, 

 5-fid, 5 lin. wide. Anthers conniving, dehiscing by two apical slits. 

 Berry globose, size of a pea. 

 Wile Land. Sennar, Acerbi. 



101. S. setaceum, Darnmer in Engl. Ffi. Ost-Afr. G. 353. A 

 shrub. Branches slender, densely covered with seta? about ^ in. long, 

 deciduous except at the hardened base. Leaves ovate, cordate. 1 in. 



