Solantm,] LXXXII. solane^. 



447 



vatiou. The berries are said by several Aastraliaii collectors to be frequently eaten. Tky 

 vary iu colour as iu Europe, black yellow or red. 



2. S. aviculare. Ford. Prod. 18. An erect glabrous unarmed vigorous 

 uuderslirub or shrub, attaining 5 or 6 ft. or even more, flowering the hrst 

 vear so as then to appear herbaceous. Leaves lanceolate, acute or rarely al- 

 most obtuse, mostly entire on the older shrubby individuals, often piunatihd 

 with 1, 2 or 3 lanceolate lobes on each side on the younger ones, especially 

 the first year, the larger leaves 6 to 10 in. long, but in some specmiens all 

 under 4 in., tapering at the base and often shortly petiolate, in some vane- 

 ties decurrent so as to form raised angles on the stems. Flowers few, large, 

 in short loose pedunculate racemes, mostly lateral. Pedicels rather long. 

 Calyx-lobes short, broad, very obtuse or mucrouate. Corolla ^ to i in. ma- 

 meter, very shortly and broadly lobcd. Pilaments filiform, as long as or 

 longer than the anthers, which are oblong, very obtuse, parallel, open^g J" 

 terminal transverse slits, which are at length more or less continued <^own trie 

 ^ules and often to the ba;e. Stigma capitate, shghtly 2-lobed. .Bernes o^^ul 

 or globular, green or yellow, rather large.-D..n. in DC^ Prod . xni. pai t i. bJ 

 Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i^ 288 ; S. laciniatnm, Ait. Hoi-t. Kew. ed. 1, i. 247 R- 

 Br. Prod. 415; Bot. Mag. t. 349 ; Dun. I.e. 69; ^-'fr^X^^^ook 

 I>uu. 1. c. GS ; :S'. vescum, F. Muell. In Trans. Vict. Inst. 18oo, G9, in Hook. 

 Kew Joiirn. viii. 1G5 and 336, and PI. Vict. u. t. 63. 



Queensland. Brisbaue river, Eetine. ,, , . p ■D,-nvn Sifher n. 255, and 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the «!>!« Momita.ns ^J.-^, ^'^^^'".^^ ^^ 



»veral others ; Sydney woods, Paris Exhibition, iSGo. ^ ^^'■/^«'^' "•'^^"' 

 Hastings river, 5^o>t/«- ; southward to Twofold Bay f-.-Ma^^^r. Adamson, 



Victoria. Port Phillip, Gnnn; Portland, Robertson; f °f, ^^^f^Ja Welliugtou. 

 f-MueUef; sandy plains at the entrance of Snowy River, Lakes King and well „ 



soorces of the Yarra, F. Mueller. _^„ . ,•,„_,, .T.„jy woods, etc., 



^ Tasmania. Islands of Bass's Straits, R. Brown ; common m damp sUady wo 



■'• I>. HooTcer. 

 S. Australia. Mount Gamhier, F. Mueller. 



The species is also ia New Zealand. F. Mueller ^^^^^fX^'^.^.^TllS. Zh^r'., 

 «'le decurrent leaves, less deeply lobed corollas, longer Jl^'"'^"^; ° fhSnc of " Guayang," 

 "".a edible .lobular greeuish btTries, kuowu in G.pps' t^nd and r ^^^ J^J'^ ^^^.^^ l^^ the 

 r^"lst in the true S^ aviculare the leaves are not decun-e t lie ill ments^ ^^ ^^^ .^ ^^^.^ ^^ 

 Kv ovoid, yellow, and iaedihle. There certainly appear toui au ^^ ^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^^ 



"> so many other species, marked varieties in the form, '"'f "'' ^...^ ' ndence belweeQ these 

 ^ «innot trace, from the materials and notes before ""^'/"J^ • ^ jj^^e the most promi- 

 "■•l the forms 'of the foliage. F. Mueller's JwofoW Bayjp men have^^^^ ^ i ^^^ 

 neatly decurrent leaves with the berries not specially descnbea , i ^^^ ^^^ ^^.^.^^^ ^^^^ 

 have more or less decurrent leaves, and globular S-^f " "'7^" „,; gijgMlv decurrent, and 

 Zealand as well as the Tusmaniau plant have leaves not at all or j .^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ 



yellowish ovoid berries, but which are eaten, at least '",;,.„„ „f those earlv cultivated 

 ^o^^ever, apparently the common Port .Jackson one, and wti'^" '= , ■ i^bulL-, of a yel- 

 f European botanic gardens, has the leaves not decurrent, but he berr n ^^^^^^^^ je- 

 l-'-^i^k green. Sieber's and other Blue Mouutam_ specimen, hve the 'ea^^ ^^^^^ ^.,,jj 

 "^"fent, and some of these are described as havmg ^^^'^ ™ t^o ^eU distinguished 

 jPPear, therefore, to be several distinct varieties or races, oi > ^ ^^.^^.^j^ ^^^^ „n,y 



Jy P. Mudler, are in Victoria, and one. two, three or more '^J*: ' ^'Her., appears to 

 ^characterized by observing them in a living *'^\^- , ^^'^the «ame N. S. Wales origin as 

 ;'!ve been always described from garden specimens, V^-'^^'^^ll^r''^ ^^ specimen dried in 1S22 

 A'ton's plant, with a mistaken indication of a Peruvian ongm. a p 



