stellate tomentum. 



450 Lxxxii. soLANEiE. . ISoIanmn. 



tube, thick and obtuse. Corolla pale blue or wliite; under i in. diameter. 

 Pilamcuts short; anthers scarcely tapering but opening only at the en;l. 

 Eerry globular, yellow, under ^ in. diameter, — R. Br. Prod. 44-4. 



Queensland. Broad Sound and Shoalwater Bay, S. Brown; Brisbane river. Moreton 

 Bay, Fraser.F. Mueller; Rockhamptoii, Bidhichy; Nerkool Creek, Boimian; Port De- 

 nison, Fitzalan^ Dallachy ; Rockingham Bay, I>allachy, 



N. S. "XVales- Clarence river, Beclder, 



The species is widely dispersed over tropical Asia and America. 



S, auriculatum. Ait.; Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part 1, 115, a tropical American species, 

 closely resembling 5. verbascifolium, but more densely woolly, the leaves more aeumuiate. 

 with a pair of stipule-like small semicircular leaves at the base of most of the petioles, and 

 purple flowers, has been sent from the N. shore, Port Jackson, as an introduced species. 



T 



§ 3. Prickles mtmeroiis few or occasional on the stem and oflen on the leaves, none on 



the calyxes, Puhescedce stellate, at least on the corolla. 



9. S. discolor, R, Br, Frocl 445. An erect shrub, with weak half- 

 climbing branches, the young ones as well as the under side of the leaves and 

 inflorescence silvery or hoary with a minute, exceedingly close but dense 



Prickles few, slender on the branches and veins' of the 

 leaves or in some specimens none. Leaves pctiolate, irregularly oval euiptica 

 or broadly oblong, rather obtuse, entire or irregularly sinuate, glabrous anc^ 

 smooth on the upper surface, 1 to 2 in. long in flowering specimens, largei 

 in barren shoots. Flowers rather small, in simple lateral racemes, few m 

 even solitary with a very short common peduncle on the fruit-bearing speci- 

 mens, numerous along a slender rhachis but very deciduous upon appareu y 

 sterile ones, the pedicels short at the time of flowering, 3 to 4 lines long ami 

 tliickened under the fruit. Calyx very small and shortly toothed ^vlieu m 

 flower, somewhat enlarged and more deeply cleft under the fruit. ^^^^^-^ 

 white, deeply lobed, about or under \ in. diameter. Berries globular, on 

 greenish-white, about 4 lines diameter.— Dun. in DC. Trod. xiii. part i. ^^^^ 

 S, confoUum, Y. Muell. Fragra. ii. 166. 



N. Australia, Coen river. Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown. 



Queensland. Araucaria Ranges, ^loreton Bay, F. Mueller, 

 . This aud the three following species (5. stelUyenm, parvifolium, aad/^r»>^«'^) ^^^^ 

 closely allied to each other, having nearly the same flowers and fruit, aud diiTcrmg cti . 

 foliage and prickles. 



10. S. steUigerum, Sm. ExoL But. ii. 57. ^. 88. An erect slirnb, 

 sometimes small aud slender, sometimes attaining 6 ft. or even in^re, ^^ 

 branches, under side of the leaves, and inflorescence covered with a ste ^^ 

 tomentum, often loose' and floccose. Prickles straight or slightly recurvt^^ 

 on the branches and sometimes on the upper side of the leaves, but not 



meroua 



very rarely 



uiauuiies ;uiu someuraes on tne upper side or tne icnoo, -— 



. Loaves petiolate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or ^<^"'^ \j^ 



rely on luxuriant slioots broad and obtuse, usually glabrous a^"/'" . . 



on the upper side except minute stellate haire along the principal 

 mostly 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers blue, rather small, in lateral ['^^emes, 



:\rro^ 



acummate lobes, somewhat lengthened under the fruit and then ^^^'lY'ViuW 

 to near the base. , Corolla usually under i in. diameter, deeply dividea 



