

Solamm.] Lxxxii. solane.i^. 455 



4 



Hook. Ktw Jouni. viii. 166. An erect shrub with the close steUate tomen- 

 tum and rare prickles of S. esuriale, but apparently of taller stature. 

 Leaves petiolate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, entire or scarcely sinuate, | to 

 li in. long. Peduncles usually rather longer than in -S. esuriale, bearing a 



sliort 

 time 



. iuug. reuuncies usuauy raiuei lungt-i man m ^. ^o>v.^^^^, ^^ p - 



raceme of very few rather large flowers, the pedicels very short at the 

 time of flowering but lengthening afterwards. Calyx about 2 hues long 

 when in flower, with short acute teeth, much enlarged and irregularly lobed 

 when in fruit. Corolla f to 1 in. diameter, with short broad lobes. Anthers 

 tapering upwards. Berry black, above ^ in. diameter. 



N. Australia, Glenclg cllstrict, N.W. coast, Marten. , r. ^ it •//' 



S. Australia. In the interior, Sturt ; riioders Eange and Cooper s Creek, MoinU s 



^pedition ; :\Iount Searl, Warburton ; Lake Gillies, Burkitt. 



The species differs from S. esuriale chiefly in the large slightly lobed corolla. 



23. S. furfuraceum, R. Br. Prod. 446 {the clar. mrovg as to the 

 ^mes hy a clerical error). An erect spreading shrub of 4 to b «., tne 

 lii<iiiches and inflorescence covered with a rather loose rusty tomentum. 

 Prickles straio-ht, slender, not numerous on the branches, very rare on the 

 leaves and none on the calyxes. Leaves petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 «eute acuminate or almost obtuse, entire or sinuate, rounded or sliglitl;) co i- 

 •Inte at the base, not above 2 in. long in our specimens, more or less scawous 

 ?l)ove with stellate hairs sometimes very de»se densely tomentoseundei- 

 neath and often woolly or floccose. Flowers blue in ratlier dense ate a Ma- 

 ^•emes, the pedicels short. Calyx divided almost to the base into na mv 

 acuminate lobes, above 2 lines long at the tune «f ^^^^""f//. ' \ !" J 

 ; en in fruit. Corolla rather large, divided^ to near he ^^^l^l*^ f ^^ ^^^ 

 lobes. Berry globular, much larger than in S._ delUgeram, t^ie enlarged 

 ^'■Jlyx-segments broadly lanceolate, subulate-acuminate.— Dun. in Dt. rroa. 

 ^ui- parti. 293. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown; Brisbane fver Moreton Bay.^'^^^n J- 

 ^iler ; Mogile scrub, C. Stuart; Rockhampton, BallacJiy, Shanesy , Table mouuta , 



Mueller ; 

 bowman. 



This 



or to vai 



ed to S. parvifoUuWy 



own's diagnosis. In his 



species has been frequently misunderstood and the n?me appl 



- ;o varieties of S. stelligerum, owing to a «\e"'^''^,,^^™^ '^ ■"'^corrcctTy described as 



""tf . as well as in Dunal's detailed desenpt.on, the .^f ^^'^.'^'^^ '"^f ^hat Brown had 



y^ lanceolate and scabrous-tomer.tose on the upper side- It "^PP^^^ "^^^^ ,,l,ieh he 



"gumlly intended to give to the present species te name of J PpfJ^";^^^^,^ for 



^fterwards transferred to another, and iu writing out ^^f'^f^^'llg^tum L ""'^'"'^'^^ 

 f ^ss. retained by mistake the character as to lul.age of -5; f^'^{JX,^,,i^ although 

 Ppertaining to i/«r/«....«;«. Dunal copies Brown's dmgnose. mthout rem . 



« contradiction to the accurate description which follows. 



'«'-^ i. 192. Perhaps a variety only of S.M''Z''T.ul^^^^^ 

 ^e^tum, but a more spreading slender shrub ^^''^ho^^ .^"^ J^^'^'^te^^es as in 

 ;^'y rarely with a very4w sm^all slender prickles on t^e st^^. L v ^ 

 \Mfuraceum, ovate or ovate-lanceolate entire or ^^^^^^^r neSs rarely 

 ^We 1 in. lo4. Flowers solitary or two together on slender ped e ^^y 



W i in. lo,Tg, Calvx of S. furf.raceum ^^f^^l'^^'LTh/lorum, R. 



thers much acmuinate.' Be 

 *!•. Prod. 44.5, not of Lour. 



furfurareim. — S. bif^ 



