Lycium] Lxxxviii. solanacE/E. 753 



the sessile or subsessile base, fleshy, glandular-squamulose at 

 least beneath, glaucescent, |- to | in. long by /^ to \ in. 

 broad, flat, entire ; flowers axillary, solitary, f in. long ; peduncle 

 about i in. long ; calyx campanulate, \ in. long, pale green, 

 shortly trifid, glandular-squamulose outside; lobes more or less 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, shortly ciliolate, -^-^ to Jj in. long ; 

 corolla funnel-shaped, from yellowish to violet-coloured, glabrous 

 outside, veiny; deeply cleft down one side, otherwise shortly 

 lobed ; throat glandular-bearded ; the limb pentamerous, im- 

 bricate ; the lobes rounded, about |^ in. long ; stamens 5, rather 

 shorter than the corolla, rather unequal, inserted on the corolla- 

 tube about level with the top of the calyx ; filaments hairy 

 towards the base ; style slightly longer than the stamens, shortly 

 cleft at the apex. 



MosSAMEDES. — On elevated maritime rooks covered with blown 

 sand, near Cabo Negro ; fl. Sept. 1869. No. 6024. 



This species has somewhat the aspect of L. arabicum Schweinf., but 

 it differs by the fewer calyx-lobes and by the hairiness of the lower part 

 of the filaments, etc. 



8. DATURA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 901. 



1. D. Stramonium L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 179 (1753); Welw. 

 Apontam. p. 551, sub n. 100 (1859). 



LoANDA. — In poor pastures at the coast near Conceigao ; fr. 24 Aug. 

 1854. No. 6051. 



MossAMEDES. —In bushy sandy places at the banks of the river Bero, 

 near Quipola ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 6030. 



2. D. fastuosa L. Syst. Nat. edit. 10, ii. p. 932 (1759) ; Welw. 

 Apontam. p. 551, sub n. 100 (1859). 



Var. alba C. B. Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 243 (1883). 



D. alba Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 73 (1834) ; Welw., 

 I.C., p. 590, n. 84. 



LoANDA. — Peduncles glabrous, axillary ; calyx but little or scarcely 

 inflated at the base, simply tubular, 6-nerved, green between the 

 nerves with raised veiny rugosities ; corolla yellow-greenish when 

 young, soon turning white, transversely wrinkled at the nerves which 

 run out into the lobes ; capsule globose, shining, brown, beset all over 

 with pyramidal prickles which are rather hard at the apex ; seeds 

 reniform, brown. In cultivated plots and neglected fields, more or less 

 solitary ; at Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. end of July 1858. The 

 flowers give ofE the nauseous smell of the genus less than the leaves. 

 No. 6042. Stem 3 to 4 ft. high, divaricately branched, atropurpureous, 

 quite shining, woody at the base ; flowers not foetid ; the tube pale 

 whitish-yellowish. On maritime sands of the Oazanga island, where 

 it is wild and abundant ; fl. and fr. 14 Mar. 1858. The shining violet 

 colour of the stems and leaves ornament the very white sands to a 

 remarkable degree, especially when the not less abundant Trihulus 

 terrestria is also present with its large golden-yellow flowers. 

 Apparently indigenous. No. 6043 and Coll. Carp. 804. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Flowers white, large, sub-pendulous. About 

 negro villages, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1855. No. 6061. 

 Capsule more or less spherical, rather depressed at the apex ; muricate. 



