Datura.] xci. solanace.e (weight). 257 



samb. Bot. 231 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356 ; Kirbikar in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. 20, t. TJ.— D. JSgyptia, Vesl. PI. ^Egypt. 202. 



Wile Land. Eritrea: near Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinf urth Sf Riva, 1235! 



Mozamb. Dist, Portuguese East Africa : throughout the Mozambique 

 district, ex Peters, 



Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Va'r. alba, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind. iv. 243. A larger plant than 

 the type; corolla quits white; capsule with shorter spines. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 753. D. alba, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 73 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr . 

 xiii. i. 511 ; Vatke in Linnaea. xliii. 334; Engl. PH. Ost-Afr. C. 356. D.fastuosa, 

 Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 551, not of Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : near Accra, Moloney ! 



Nile Land. Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 7288 ! British East Africa : near Mazeras, 

 300 ft. Kaessner, 280 ! Witu, Thomas, 154 ! 



Lower Guinea. Banana, at the mouth of the Congo, Monteiro ! Angola : 

 Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6061 ! Loando; Imbondeiro dos Lobos, Welwitscli, 6042 ! 

 shore of Cazansja Island, Welwitsch, 6043 ! Benguela; sea shore near Benguela, 

 Welwitsch, 6028! Mossamedes ; banks of ihe River Bero, Welwitsch, 6029! 



Dlozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk, 64! Rildebrandt, 1196! British Central 

 Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, KvrTc ! Buchanan! Mount Chiradzulu and 

 near Magomero, Metier ! 



3. D. inermis, Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. 44, t. 82. Annual. Stem 

 erect, 4 ft. high, branched, fistular, terete, glabrous. Leaves ovate, 

 acute, incised -lobed ; lobes acute ; petiole long. Flowers shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx pentagonal, glabrous ; teeth 5. Corolla white, twice 

 as long as the calyx ; lobes 5, rounded, acutely cuspidate. Capsule 

 smooth, erect, 4-valved. — D. Icevis, Linn. f. Suppl. 146 ; Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 276. 



Wile Land. Abyssinia, ex Linnaeus ; cultivated specimens ! 



4. D. Stramonium, Linn. Sp. PL eel. 1, 179. A robust erect 

 annual. Stem terete, smooth, dichotomously branched above. Leaves 

 ovate, more or less coarsely toothed or lobed, up to 9 in. long and 3^- in. 

 wide, acuminate, unequal at the base, flaccid, slightly hairy when young. 

 Flowers erect in the forks of the branches ; pedicels short. Calyx 1 J in. 

 long, persistent at the base ; teeth 5, triangular. Corolla 3-4 in. long, 

 plicate in bud, tubular-funnel-shaped, white ; lobes 5, spreading or 

 recurved, acuminate. Stamens included. Ovary pyramidal, 4-lobed. 

 Capsule about 2 in. long, erect, ovoid, thickly clothed with spines. 

 Seeds about ^ in. long, reniform. — Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 540 ; 

 Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 163 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 88; 

 Bentl. & Trim. Med. PI. t. 192 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 iv. 242 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 753 ; Cummins in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1898, 77 ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 118. 



Upper Guinea. Ashanti : Assin yan Kumassi, Cummins, 8 ! Togo : near 

 Lome, Warnecke, 361 ! Northern Nigeria : Kuka, on Lake Chad, Vogel, 56 ! 



Wile Land. Nubia : Kotschy, 232 ! Bugdoo, above New Dongola, Bromfield, 

 26 ! near New Dougola, Ehrenberg. Sennar : near Rosieres, CienJcowsky. Gallabat i 

 near Matannna, Schweinf urth, 1369! 1370! Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips! 



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