Ly coper sic(yii\ lxxxviii. solanace^. 745 



Baeea do Bengo, Loanda, etc. — An annual prostrate herb ; 

 branchlets ascending ; flowers yellow ; fruit globose, as big as a very 

 large cherry, glossy, of an orange-cinnabar colour, soft when ripe, 

 quickly rotting. Perfectly spherical fruits and other fruits ribbed- 

 sulcate and a little larger were frequently seen by Welwitsoh to occur 

 on the same individual plants. Wild but not indigenous, very 

 plentifully occurring in all neglected formerly cultivated places and 

 about dwellings, also at the stations (called Quilombo) of the migratory 

 negroes, from the Atlantic shore to Condo ; in fields between Quicuxe 

 and Cacuaoo ; fl. and fr. beginning of Aug. 1858. No. 6046. 



This plant is especially frequent about the fundas (caravan en- 

 campments) in company with Cleome and Psidium. There is a rapid 

 transition from the large-sized berries to those no bigger than cherries, 

 with several instead of only two cells. 



2. SOLANUM Tournef., L. ; Benth. <fe Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 888. 



1. S. nigrum L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 186 (1753), partly. 

 GoLusGO Alto. — Stems ascending. "Varzea grande of the Coango ; 



fl. and young fr. June 1856. No. 6099. Stem at the base ascending, 

 cylindrical, glossy, nodose at the ramification, angular above ; flowers 

 white ; anthers yellow ; berries black. Among plants of manioc and 

 beans in the varzea of Isidoro at the river Coango ; fl. and fr. July 

 1855. No. 6100. An annual herb, sometimes ascending, sometimes 

 erect ; stem angular ; flowers mostly 5-cleft but not rarely 4-cleft, 

 white ; anthers yellow ; berries black. In plots planted with beans 

 and maize, near Sange, sporadic ; fl. and fr. beginning of Aug. 1865. 

 No. 6101. In fl. June 1857. Only one specimen. No. 61016. 



Var. villosum L., I.e. 



Pdngo Andongo. — An annual, ascending herb ; stem angular ; 

 flowers white, small ; berries black. In damp and also in dry fields 

 and in uncultivated places, tolerably plentiful near Cabondo ; also in 

 localities far removed from dwellings ; fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 6109. 



MOSSAMBDES. — An annual herb, ^ to 2 ft. high. In damp sandy 

 places at the banks of the river Bero, near Mossamedes ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1859. No. 6036S. 



HuiLLA. — Leaves coarsely toothed. In bushy places at cataracts 

 near Lopollo ; fl. 11 Jan. 1860. No. 6036. An annual, erect herb, 

 2 to 3 ft. high ; flowers white. In moist places by fields near Lopollo, 

 Bmbala ; fl. 8 Nov. 1859. No. 6035. 



"Var. guineensis L., I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— Varzea near Camilungo ; fl. and young fr. May 

 1855. No. 6102. 



2. S. STiflfruticosum Schousboe ex Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 

 p. 236 (1809). 



IcoLO E Bengo. — In palm-groves at the river Bengo ; fl. and fr. 

 Deo. 1853. No. 6053. 

 Perhaps only a shrubby variety of S. nigrum. 



3. S. nodiflormn Jacq. Ic PI. Ear. ii. p. 11, t. 326 (1786-1793). 

 S. tinctorium Welw. Apoiitam. pp. 551, 590, n. 95 (1859), and 



Synopse Explic. p. 29, n. 70 (1862) ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 232 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An annual or biennial, decumbent herb, 2 to 3 ft. 



high, with the aspect of S. nigrum but with smaller flowers and in 



