Solanum] _ Lxxxviii. solanaceje. 749 



the left bank of the river Cuango ; fl. and fr. May 1855. No. 6092. 

 A stout undershrub, 4 or rarely 5 ft. high, unarmed, with irregularly 

 divaricate branches ; flowers whitish ; calyx usually 6- or 7-cleft ; 

 berry depresso-globose, deeply furrowed, orange-scarlet, edible, even 

 the unripe fi-uit being greedily consumed by the negroes, the ribs 

 obtuse and unequal like those in Lycopersicon. Wild here and there 

 about the village and deserted dwellings, and cultivated ; at an 

 abandoned sensala (native village) on the bank of the river Luinha in 

 Queta ; fl. and fr. July 1856. Native name " N-gilla." No. 6093. A 

 diffusely branched shrub or undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; flowers 

 white ; fruit as large as a small pigeon's egaf, at first ivory-coloured, 

 afterwards turning yellow, edible. About Banza do Sobato Bango ; 

 fl. and fr. 7 Sept. 1855. No. 6094. 



14. S, scalare Wright in Jou'rn. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 93 (1894). 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — Flowers violet in colour ; berries reddening. In 



rough places on rubbish heaps and by roadsides near Sange ; fr. 

 No. 6088. A patently branched herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, whitish-lepidote 

 throughout ; flowers white, occasionally a little purplish ; berries 

 scarlet, as big as peas. In rather dry bushy places near Oamilungo, 

 etc., frequent but always solitary ; fl. Feb. 1856. No. 6089. No 

 notes. In fl. and fr. No. 6089Z>. A herb, 2^ to 3| or rarely 4 ft. 

 high ; stem straight, patently branched ; flowers whitish ; berries 

 cinnabar-red. In somewhat shady parts of palm groves on the left 

 bank of the river Quibolo ; fl. and fr. March and July 1856. No. 6090. 

 A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high ; leaves tomentose ; flowers white ; fruit 

 orange-red. In sunny places near Aldea do Golungo Alto ; fr. Sept. 

 Apparently this species. Coll. Carp. 799. 



PUNGO Andongo. — A branched undershrub, 4 ft. high ; stems and 

 flowers violaceous-purpurascent ; berries scarlet. In thickets to the 

 south of the presidium at the banks of the river CasabaM ; fl. and fr. 

 Jan. 1857. No. 6104. 



15. S. insigne Lowe in Journ. Hort. See, n.s. i. p. 178 (1867). 

 MossAMEDES. — A Small tree, 5 to 7 ft. high, with a broad head ; 



branches erect ; branchlets spreading ; leaves rather fleshy, dull green ; 

 flowers from whitish to purplish ; berries ellipsoidal, orange-cinnabar 

 in colour. Cultivated in gardens at Mossamedes, which was said to 

 have recently been introduced from Oporto ; fl. and fr. June 1859. 

 No. 6037. 



In the study set the inflorescence is 3 in. long and pedunculate, and 

 the berry is fusiform, 2 in. long, shining, and glabrous. 



16. S, Mannii Wright in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 129. 

 Var. eompactum Wright, I.e. 



Ambriz.— Hills near Ambriz ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 6079. 



LiBONGO. — An annual erect herb, nearly simple, 7 in. high, with the 

 habit of S. nigrum. In sandy places at the river Lif une near Banza 

 de Libongo, in company with Phy satis ; fl. and young fr. Sept. 1858. 

 No. 6080. 



Barra do Daxde. — A strongly branched shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; 

 branches tomentose, prickly ; flowers white ; berries cinnabar-red. 

 In gravelly places at the mouth of the river Dande ; fl. and fr. Nov. 

 1853. No. 6052. 



Zenza do Golungo. — In dry bushy places near Caluraguembo ; frag- 

 mentary, apparently of this species ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 6087. 



Ambaca. — An erect undershrub, woody at the base, 3 to 4 ft. 



