r 





Solannm.] Lxxxii, solane^'. 451 



narrow lobes. Anthers coniiivent and tapering upwards. Berry redj glo- 

 bular, small. — K. Br. 445 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 191. 



Qneensland- Keppel Bay, 72. Browu ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, J. Cumnng- 

 f^m, F. Mueller, and others ; Rockhampton, Dallachy aud others ; Rockinghani Bay^ 



Mueller 



^allachy; Arau 

 Beckler. 



N, S. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, i?. Brown aud others ; New 

 Enj^^land, Leiclihardt ; Clarence and Hastings rivers, Beckler. 



Several of the northern specimens have sraaller, narrower leaves than usual, approaching 

 those of S. parvifoi'mm, hut acute ; one from Cape Byron, C Moore (Herb. F. Muell). 

 laa large broad leaves, more prickly than usual ; and some from the Araucaria Ranges, 

 Burnett river, F. Mueller, sent by him as a var. lucorum, have the leaves sprinkled on the 

 upper surface with a few stellate hairs. Brown's Keppel Bay specimens have a more rufous 

 tomentum, showing some approach to S.furfuraceum^ but very much more glabrous on 

 the upper surface of the leaves. 



Var. ? magnifoHum, Leaves hroadlv ovate, 4 to 8 in. long, mostly sinuate, with several 

 prickles on the upper side. Flowers very few in the imperfect specimens seen, but quite 

 those of S. stelllgenm.—Muvrny river, Rockingham Bay, Dallacluj ; mountam brush, 

 MorGton Bay, Leiclihardt (both in Herb. F. Mueller). 



11. S. parvifoHum, /?. Br. Trod. 446. A busliy slender shmb, 



closely allied to the small-leaved varieties of -S-. stdUgera, but the leaves are 

 tiarrow-oblong or almost linear, always obtuse, quite entire or with a short 

 "road lobe on each side near tlie base, glabrous above, stellate-tomentose uii- 

 flemeath, in some specimens not above 1 in. long, in others twice as lonp. 

 Flowers blue, like those of S. stdUgera. Calyx about 1 hue long when m 

 flower and not 3 lines when in fruit, deeply divided into acuminate lobes, 

 torolla deeply lobed. Beri-y small, globular.— Dun. in DC. Frod. xiii. 

 P^rt i. 191 J S. leptophyllum, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 164. 



. Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Brigalow Scrub on the TMaclceuzie and Suitor 

 "I'f^, F. Mueller ; in the interior, Mitchell; Cape river, BOioman; Armadillo, i?«r/<?» 



iWlh rather larger flowers). ^.,, -^ ,,„„. 



-^W. S. Wales. Liverpool Plains, J. imnlugUm -. Macnamara hiUs, Traser : Mount 



Mwehison, i)«//rf^/,^. 



12. S. ferocissimum, Lindl. ii 

 straggling slender shmlv allifid to S. i 



Ml 



A low 



^ , oo-..a O...UCX .uruu, «u.ca .. .. ^arvi/olium, the brancnes rainer ,uu...y 

 ^telate-tomentose. Prickles long and slender, very numerous on the branches 

 f d leaves, none on the calyx. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, not so ob- 

 *»f as in S. parvlfolinm, entire or the larger ones hastately lobed at he base, 

 i.to 2 in. long, glabrous or with loose stellate hairs especially underneath. 

 Without the close tomentum of S. parmfoUnm. Flowers sma 1, blue, in oose 

 jacemes, with a very short common peduncle and slender pedicels. ,^fn ^ 



« H lines long in flower, somewhat enlarged in fruit deeply divided mto 

 Jf^uminate lobes. Corolla about k in. diameter, deeply lobed.-Dun. m 1^0. 

 ^■■oa- xiii. part i. 373. 



jr. S. Wale.. Lachlau river, Mitchell; bet^ve^n that aud the ^JP^.^^f f"'.\f„"„'; 

 ^'- Darling river, Borcman, pJuton; Peel's Range, Fraoer, A. Canmngham . Moant 

 "•wcluson, Ballachg, E. Giles. 



^ 13. S. defensum, F. Mndl. Fragm. v. 193. The fi"/'«/F"';"^" J" 

 ^nbed is an erect nearly simple shoot from a woody stock (or /rorn the base 

 ^ a shrub that has been cut down), stout and rigid, above Ij ft^ h^gh, sea- 



