41-8 , LXXXIT. SOLANE^. [Solanum. 



in the Montpellier garJeu as autlicutic, is certainly undistiuguishable from the N. S. 'U'ales^ 

 S. iaciniaium. 



Muell 



. Trans.. Phil. Soc. Vict, i. 1 9^ and Tragm. vl. 

 14:5. A glabrous erect unarmed undershrub or sliruL, closely resembling 

 entire-leaved specimens of S. amculare, usually not so stout, although attain- 

 ing 4 or 5 ft. Leaves lanceolate or linear, usually obtuse, *coutracted into a 

 short petiole, not decurrent, entire or rarely with 1 or 2 short lobes on each 

 side near the base, mostly only 2 or 3 in. long. Flowers smaller than in S. 

 avicularey few in lateral racemes, with a very short or sometimes scarcely any 

 common peduncle. Calyx and corolla otherwise nearly as in S. aviculare, 

 the corolla not much above | in. diameter. Anthers obtuse, parallel, open- 

 ing at length down the sides. Berry globular ovoid or oblong, usually 

 smaller tiian in S. aviculare, and purple. Seeds rather large. — S. laciniatum, 

 var., R. Br. Prod. 445 ; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 82 ; Nees in Tl. Preiss. L 

 345; S.fasciculatmn,V,lsi\xd\.Yv^ ^" "'" ' " ' 



Wal 



s. JJarlin^ river, Ballachj ; Murray river, F. Mueller. 

 Victoria. Wimniera, Baliadnj. 



S.Australia, Port Lincoln, Wilhelmi ; Spencer's Gulf and Kangaroo Island, ^. 



w'f* ^^^^^^^^i llowni Serle, Warhurton ; Lake Gillies, BarkUL 



"^^- Australia. Goose Island Bav, R. Brown; King Georges Sound, OldfielcW^^ 



Mueller; Fitzgerald \\v^r. Maxwell ; Swan River, lluegel, Drummond, Oldfield; Mui'- 



chison nver, Oldfield; Rottcnest Island, Freiss, n. 1965. 



F. Mueller distinguishes S.fasciculatum as a AVesteni species with ovoid berries. I <'an 

 lind no other character, and there appear to be at least three different forms of fruit all lu- 

 cluded by F. Mueller as varieties of S, fasciculatwm,—^\oh\x\^v, ovoid, and obloug,-tl.e 

 latter sometnues at least 1 in. long and verv narrow. AH three are in \Yest Australia, aud 

 the two extremes in South Australia. The narrowest-fruited speciiucus have also very 

 narrow leaves, from Phillips river. Maxwell, and Lake Gillies, BurkitU 



n. S. pseudo-capsicum, Linn.; Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part '^ 

 lo2. A glabrous mianiied erect shrub or imdershnib, attaining 3 to 4 ft. 

 i^caycs broadly lanceolate, entire, contracted into a ratlier long petiole. Pe- 

 dicels lateral, solitary or 2 orS together in a cluster or on a very short com- 

 mon peduncle. Calyx deeply divided into ovate-lanceolate herbaceous seg- 

 ments. Corolla white, rather small, divided to about the middle. Filaments 



short • anthers connivent and tapering upwards. Berry globular, bright red 

 or yellow. ^ o r ^ d 



N. S. Wales. Hastings river, Beckler. An introduced plant of somewHat uncertain 

 vatfon """^ ^^^ "'^'^ '" ^'°P'''"' countries, chiefly a8 a weed or escape from cnlti- 



. ^- ?* ^ Shanesii, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 144. An erect shrub, attain- 

 ing 8 tt, with slender glabrous branches. Leaves solitary or the upper ones 

 mpcui-s, ovate, acuminate,inembraiious, entire, glabrous above, sprinkled under- 

 neath with simple not stellate hairs, \\ to 2 in. long, the lamina decurrent 

 on a ra her long petiole. Flowers unknown, -pruifing pedicels solitary or 

 2 together, reflexed. Calyx obtuse, obscurely lobed. Berry globular, red. 

 about ^ in. diameter. ^ 



as S^inTe^rt^" r^v'"'' ^:t-^' ^'*«'=^ampton, BaUach^, &Shanesy. The genus ns well 

 as the immediate affinities of this species must remain uncertain until the flowers shall have 



