THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 175 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 

 OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D.,LL.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 



SOLANUM LUCANI. 



Somewhat frutescent and diffused, bearing a very thin, almost 

 velvety vestiture, beset except on the leaves with short prickles ; 

 petioles mostly long but slender ; leaves from cordate-ovate to 

 elliptic-lanceolar, often repand at the margin, almost of equal 

 green on both sides ; peduncles conspicuous, 2- to 4-flowered ; 

 pedicels soon elongated ; calyx during anthesis small, copiously 

 beset with prickles, its lobes minute, acute, its tube enlarging all 

 round the fruit; corolla very much exceeding the calyx, unarmed, 

 white, hardly lobed, the greater portion outside glabrous ; 

 anthers slender, discoherent ; style capillary, almost glabrous; 

 berry spherical ; seeds renate-orbicular. 



At Cambridge-Gulf; Aug. Lucanus. 



Stem to i l />, feet long. Prickles on the petioles, peduncles and 

 pedicels usually very small ; leaves laxe, occasionally bearing some 

 few prickles, their maximum length 4 inches, their greatest 

 breadth 2 inches, the stellular hairlets on the upper page rather 

 scattered ; racemes including the peduncles attaining to 4 inches 

 length; pedicels finally lengthening to 1 inch and distant; 

 corolla about ^ inch wide, of very tender texture ; berries quite 

 concealed by the calyx, measuring fully y 2 inch, their colour as 

 yet unascertained. 



This species differs chiefly from *b Y . Cunninghami in lesser 

 indument, copious prickles, thin texture of the leaves, shortness 

 of the calyx-lobes, smaller, almost lobeless corolla, and the fruit 

 of S. Cunninghami will probably prove also different, and be 

 more like that of S. cataphractum. Our present plant is already 

 distinguishable from S. sj)ora'1 otrichum in closer vestiture, 

 absence of prickles on the leaves, but presence on the inflorescence, 

 form of the calyx, and probably also in fruit characteristics. 



Utricularia Kamienskii. 



Dwarf, annual ; root very short, capillularly fibrilliferous ; stem 

 1- to 3-flowered, extremely thin ; leaves early evanescent or 

 undeveloped ; bracts and bracteoles basifixed, narrow, finely 

 pointed, pedicels longer than their flowers ; upper sepal orbicular- 

 ovate, lower slightly and acutely bifid ; corolla white, its upper 

 portion narrow, slightly and bluntly bilobed ; lower portion 

 somewhat longer than the upper, nearly to the middle divided 

 into three rather narrow bluntish lobes ; basal protrusion cylindric- 

 conical, blunt, hardly shorter than the upper expansion. 



Near the Adelaide-River ; M. and N. Holtze. 



Height 2 to 6 inches. Length of pedicels generally from y 2 to 



