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AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



Berries when perfectly ripe pulpy, sometimes above 1 inch long. Seeds 

 ovate-rounclish, compressed, with a grey net-like tissue. 



126. Solanum lacunarium, F. Muell.; armed all over with setaceous- 

 subulate, straight prickles; stem dwarf, suffruticose, branched; leaves 

 petiolate, in circumference oblong-ovate, sinuate-pinnatifid, above con- 

 spersed with stellate hair, at length calvescent, beneath as well as the 

 branches covered with a thin grey toment ; lobes of the leaves oblong, 

 rounded-blunt, with entire margin; peduncles terminal, two- to six- 



seerments 



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anthers yellow. 



Hab. In lagoons, which are dry during the summer season, near the 

 junction of the Eiver Darling and Murray. 



It differs from Solanum cinereum (R. Br. Prodr. i. 446), the only one 

 to which it bears similarity, in its blunt, entire leaf-lobes, which are, 

 together with flowers and berries, considerably smaller, by almost con- 

 stantly armed peduncles and pedicels, and by hardly cuspidate segments 

 of the calyx. 



127. Solanum ^M^cMZaw, P. Muell. ; unarmed j stems procumbent, 

 suffruticose ; leaves on somewhat long petioles, ovate or narrow-ob- 

 long, blunt, repand, entire, above pale green, laxly tomentellous, below 

 clothed with a shineless, thin, grey toment ; peduncles two- to five- 

 flowered, generaUy surpassing the length of the petiole j calyx half as 

 long as the corolla, carinulate, with triangular, acuminate segments ; 

 anthers yellow, slightly attenuate, sui-passed in length by the style. 



Hab. Along the Wimmera, Avoca, and Murray Rivers; thence 

 through the desert-country as far as Lake Tomns, Spencer's and St. 

 Vincent Gulfs. 



Allied to Solanum dianthophorum Punal Sol. 183), and to an un- 

 described species discovered in Central Australia by Captain Sturt, of 

 which I subjoin the definition : — 



128. Solanum Stnrtianum, F. Muell.; stem upright, fruticose, scan- 

 tUy armed with short, acicular prickles ; leaves on somewhat long peti- 

 oles, lanceolate-oblong, blunt, entire, unarmed, above glabrescent, be- 

 neath clothed with a very thin toment ; peduncles three- to five-flowered, 

 generaUy surpassing the length of the petiole ; calyx much shorter than 

 the corolla, with triangular, acute teeth ; anthers yellow, attenuate. 



Another species, brought from the interior of this island-continent 

 by the same intrepid traveller, might be characterized as foUows : 



