746 Lxxxviii. soLANACB^. [fSolammi 



other respects more robust ; stem thick, marked with two acute wings 

 by the decurrent base of the leaves, branched ; leaves broadly ovate ; 

 flowers small, white ; berries globose, black, or when ripe atro- 

 purpureous, in size like a very large pea or the grape called in 

 Portugal Bastardo, valued for thoir deep purple juice, which the 

 negroes use as an ink (and with which Welwitsch wrote his notes 

 relating to the specimens). In places neglected after cultivation and 

 about negro villages in Sobatos Baugo, Quilombo, etc., not uncommon ; 

 fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1855, in July and middle of Aug. 1856, and in 

 June 1857. No. 6103 and Coll. Carp. 138, 789, 790, 791. 



PUNGO Andongo. — A slender, erect, annual herb, in habit more or 

 less like S. nigrum ; flowers white ; fruit from black to atropurpureous. 

 In manioc plantations near Luxillo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. A slender 

 form of the species. No. 6108. 



MossAMEDES. — At Cavalheiros ; fl. July 1859. " Herba Moira." 

 No. 6033. 



HuiLLA. — In moist herbaceous places by the banks of the LopoUo 

 river ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 6034. 



In Grolungo Alto this herb is called by the natives " Distie," 

 Welwitsch stated that the writing on some documents in the govern- 

 ment of&ce there, after having been written with the purple ink of 

 the berries upwards of forty years, preserved their original colour. 

 Perhaps only a variety of 8. nigrum, the Portuguese name of which 

 is " herva moira." 



4. S. Thonningianum Jacq. f. Eclog. i. p. 123, t. 83 (1816); 

 Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 232 (1884). 



,S. Atropo Sohum. & Thonn. inDansk. Vid. Selsk. iii. 144 (1828). 



LoANDA. — A herb, 3 or rarely 4 ft. high, nearly glabrous through- 

 out, divaricately branched ; stem and leaf -nerves atropurpureous ; 

 flowers large, of a deep violet colour ; berries good to eat, depresso- 

 globose, hollowed at the apex, like a tangerine orange in shape and 

 colour. In places neglected after cultivation, between Loanda and 

 Camama ; at Bemposta in company with Marsilea ; fl. 18 May 1859. 

 Negro name " Mamote." No. 6076. 



5. S. pauperum Wright in Kevs^ Bull. 1894, p. 127. 



Loanda. — A shrublet, 3 ft. high, branched from the base ; branches 

 spreading; leaves membranous, deep green; flowers from whitish to 

 pomegranate-purple, berries brick-red. In thickets near Imbondeiro 

 dos Lobos, here and there ; fl. and young fr. June 1858 ; at Alto das 

 Cruzes and near Museque de L. Gomez ; fl. Feb. 1854. No. 6054. No 

 notes. Nos. 6074 and 6075. An evergreen shrub ; leaves green, more 

 or less oblong ; flowers clear blue; berries scarlet. By thickets, sporadic ; 

 fr. beginning of March 1854. Apparently this species. Coll. Carp. 796. 



6. S. bifarcum Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, i. n. 201 {U. i. 

 1840) ; A. Eich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 98 (1851) {bifurcatum) ; Dunal in 

 DO. Prodr. xiii. 1, p. 77 (1852), 



PuNGO Andongo.— Mata de Cabondo ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 6107. A 

 shrub, climbing to a great height ; flower clear blue ; berries brick-red. 

 In the dense primitive forests of Pungo; fl. andfr. April 1857. No. 6106. 



The following No., which is represented in the British Museum 

 by a fragmentary specimen, should be compared with this species ; 

 in the study set the inflorescence is leaf-opposed, cymose, peduncu- 

 late, and rather slender : — 



