248 xci. solanace^e (weight). [Physcdis. 



3. P. angulata, Linn. Sp. PL eel. i, 183. A much-branched 

 annual, up to 2 ft. high. Stem angular, green. Leaves ovate, acute 

 or acuminate, coarsely serrate, up to 3 in. long and 2 in. wide, glabrous, 

 sometimes minutely puberulous on the under surface of the nerves ; 

 petiole 1-2 lin.long. Calyx campanulate, in fruit 5-angled and nearly 

 1 in. in diam. ; lobes broad triangular, about as long as the tube. 

 Corolla campanulate, uniformly yellow ; lobes 5, acute. Anthers pale 

 blue. Berry at first green, finally becoming yellowish-green. — Dunal 

 in DC Prodr. xiii. i. 448; Sendt. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 130. — Alkekengi 

 indicum glabrum, etc., Dill. Hort. Elth. 13, t. 12. 



Upper Guinea. Sierre Leone, Vogel, 14 ! Gold Coast : Cape Coast Castle, 

 Vogel, 51 ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 255 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter., 

 829 ! Kuka, Vogel, 44 ! 54 ! Niger, Baikie, 8 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Loanda, Gossweiler, 354 ! 



A plant bearing a striking resemblance to this species but differing in having a 

 spotted corolla, was collected at Attah (Idda) on the Quorra (Niger), by Vogel, 37. 



4. P. peruviana, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1670. Herbaceous or 

 suffruticose from a perennial rootstock, with simple white hairs on the 

 stem, leaves and outside of the calyx. Stem erect, branched, sulcate 

 Avhen dry. Leaves cordate, acuminate, entire or irregularly dentate- 

 sinuate, 3-4 in. long, 2^-3 in. wide ; petiole up to 2i in. long. Flowers 

 solitary on cernuous peduncles ^ in. long, arising just outside the leaf- 

 axils. Calyx in flower ^ in. in diam., campanulate with 5 lanceolate 

 acute lobes ^ in. long, in fruit shortly ovoid, acuminate, lj in. long, 

 1^ in. in diam. Corolla f in. in diam., rotate-cam panulate, slightly 

 5-iobed, pale yellow with 5 large dark purple spots at the base of the 

 lobes. Stamens inserted near the corolla-base ; filaments filiform, 2 lin. 

 long; anthers oblong, obtuse, If lin. long. Ovary globose; style 

 cylindrical, J in. long ; stigma subcapitate. Berry globose, ^ in. in 

 diam., glabrous. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 440 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 466 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. iv. 238 ; C. H. Wright 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 106. P. tomentosa, Medic. Act. Acad. Theod. 

 Palat! iv. Phys. (1780) 184, t. 4, not of Thunb. nor Walt. P. incana, 

 Hort. Par. ex Dunal, I.e. P. edulis, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1068. P. 

 pubescens, Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 88, not of Linn. 



Nile land. Uganda: Kikuyu and on the road to Eldama Ravine, 4000-6000 

 ft., Whyte / British East Africa : near Nairobi, Whyte ! Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 97! Angola: 

 Mnlnnge, Gossweiler, 1104! 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Ny.isaland, Blantyre, Scott ! 



Throughout the tropics, probably a native of South America. Naturalised in 

 South Africa. 



3. WITHANIA, Pauq.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 893. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-6-toothed, enlarged and inflated in fruit. 

 Corolla narrowly campanulate, 3-6-fid ; lobes valvate. Stamens in- 



