TYPIFICATION OF 19 NAMES OF AFRICAN SOLANUM SPECIES DESCRIBED BY RICHARD,A. AND OTHERS, INCLUDING SOLANUM-CAMPYLACANTHUM AND SOLANUM-PANDURIFORME

The Paris Herbarium (P) contains many important but neglected specimen s, collected from Abyssinia (now Eritrea and Ethiopia) by Quartin-Dill on and Petit, as well as by Schimper, and first described as new speci es by Achille Richard. A brief account is presented here of the circum stances of the collection, description and publication of these. Defin itive typification and nomenclatural details are provided for twelve n ames of Abyssinian Solanum species described by A. Richard in 1850 in Paris, and of five other African species described by Dunal (1852) and of two others. These are S. adoense Hochst. ex A. Rich., S. bifurcatu m Hochst. ex A. Rich. (= S. bifurcum Hochst. ex Dunal), S. campylacant hum Hochst. ex A. Rich., S. grossidentatum A. Rich., S. hirtulum Steud . ex A. Rich., S. macilentum A. Rich., S. macracanthum A. Rich., S. pi periferum A. Rich., S. plebeium A. Rich., S. polyanthemum Hochst. ex A . Rich., S. schimperianum Hochst. ex A. Rich. and S. unguiculatum A. R ich., and also S. albicaule Kotschy ex Dunal, S. delagoense Dunal, S. heudelotii Dunal, S. panduriforme E. Mey. ex Dunal and S. senegambicum Dunal, and also S. kotschyii Steud. (ined.) and S. senegalense Perr. (ined.). Some of these are synonyms of S. anguivi Lam., S forskalii Du nal, S. incanum L., S. terminale Forssk. and S. villosum Mill. Hithert o, places of publication of several of these names, and the authorship of many of them have been cited incorrectly. (C) 1997 The Linnean Soc iety of London.