452 Lxxxii. SOLANE.E. ■[Sohmtnu 



_brous with scattered stellate hairs. Prickles straight, rather numerous on 

 the stem and leaves, none on the calyxes. Leaves very shortly petiolato, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid with short obtuse lobes or some 

 sinuate only, 3 to 5 in. long, green on both sides, glabrous above, w.ith a few 

 "sHiall scattered stellate hairs underneath. Flowers blue, rather small, re- 

 sembling those of C. slelUgerum, in loose lateral racemes, the pedicels rather 

 long even when in flower. Calyx-Iobcs acuminate, split almost to the base, 

 buf not exceeding 2 lines with the fruit far advanced. Corolla about gKi- 

 diameter, deeply lobcd. Anthers tapering upwards. Berry small, gloDLUar, 

 but not quite ripe in the specimen, 



Queensland. Cape York, Baemel {Herb, F, Mueller). Very reraarlcable iu the 

 foliage, but that may have beca ia some measure modified by the circumstances of growtn 

 of the only specimen kuown, 



14. S. violaceum, K Br. Prod 4i3. An erect shrub of several feet, 

 the branches under side of the leaves and inflorescence covered with a stellate 

 tomentum, sometimes dense and close/ more rarely loose and floccose. 

 Prickles slender, straight, not numerous, on the branches and sometimes on 

 the upper side of the leaves, none on the calyxes. Leaves pctiolate, lanceo- 

 late or ovate-lanceolate, acute or rather obtuse, entire or rarely sinuate, otteii 

 oblique at the base but not cordate, mostly 2 to 4 in. long, glabrous on the 

 upper surface or rarely scabrous with small stellate hairs. Flowers (violet. J 

 large, in lateral raceines, the common peduncle at first very short as well a 

 the pedicels, but both sometimes much lengthened in fruit. Calyx aboye^ 

 and often 3 lines long, with acuminate teeth sometimes very short sometune 

 as long as the tube, somewhat enlarged and more deeply lobcd whenintrui . 

 Corolla f to above 1 in. diameter, the lobes short and very broad. _ Jjeny 

 globular, larger than in S, stelligerum.—Dwn, in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. ^^^ > 

 S. Brownii^ i)un. Hist. Solan. 201. 



r^. S. Wales. Patcrson's River, R. Brown ; Blue ^Tountains, J. ^^^f ^^J^^.^o'li 

 others; Clarence and Hastings rivers, Beckler ; Richuioud river, Fawcett ; trii- ' 

 Leichltardt, 



Var. ? scahrum. Upper side of the leaves very scabrous. Calyx-teeth short.— 

 Wales, Yicary, C. Moore. • t once 



_ The species sometimes resembles some forms of S. steUigcnm in foliage, hut is a 

 distinguished by the large and differently-shaped calyx and curolla. 



15. S. amblytnerum. Dun. in DQ. Prod. xiii. part i. 294. J^^ ^l^^^ 

 slu-ub of several feet, tlie branches under side of the leaves and mfloresc 

 . covered with a dense stellate tomentum usually close. Prickles sie" ^' 

 straight, on the branclies and often on the leaves, none on the ^''v' ' 

 Leaves sliortly pctiolate, narrow-lanceolate or almost linear, rather ou _> 

 entire or with short obtuse lobes near tlie base, 2 to 4 in. long, the u} 



Flo 



k* — 



more developed. 



.^.vxiut.. liuiis. i:iuv\ers large iiKe those ot !5. vtolaceum-, lu uit^-" j^ 



usually more numerous than in that species, with the common W^ 

 1__. i_ -, ^ . . _ _ ._ 1^ . . with small acu 



...... — ^^^^^, ^^..c.ii^w^ niiu mure iuocu aiier noweiiu;^. worolia •Qyr,w 



diameter with short broad lobes. Anthers tapering upwards. 

 _2-celIed. Berry globular. 



lore developed. Calyx about 3 lines long when in flower, with smau ^^ 

 iinate teeth, enlarged and more lubcd after flowering. Corolla hUiy * 



