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Soknum.] LXXXII. SOLANE.f.. ^^^ 



33. S. cataphractum, A. Cunn. Herb. A diffuse shrub or midcrsliriib, 

 tk under side of the leaves usunlly sprinkled with stellate hairs, the whole 

 plant otherwise glabrous or nearly'so except the corolla. Prickles straight 

 rather slender, very numerous on the stems, foliage, inflorescence, and 

 calyxes. Leaves petiolate, siiiuate-lobed or deeply pinnatifid, with broad or 

 narrow sinuate lobes, the whole leaf 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers moncecious, 

 the males in pedunculate racemes, tTie females on solitary lateral pedicels. 

 Flowering calU not seen. Corolla violet, about i in. diameter, scarcely 

 lobed, touientose outside. Anthers short, very obtuse, iruitmg pccicei 

 'I'ickened upwards, 1 in. long or more. Berry f in. diameter, enclosed iii 

 tlie enlarged densely prickly calyx. Seeds large and black. 



, N. Australia. Bat Island and Regent river, N.W. coast ACmninyhaM ^Jlf^^'l^'j^ 

 anceolate leaf-lobes) ; Montague Sound, A. Cunningham {-^'M^^ broad !««« J^ f '"j^,'^ 

 M. The specim us arc all in fruit only. I describe tlic flowers from Cunn ugham 

 "otesaud from a drawing of a plant formerly raised in Kew Gardens from his .ecd.. He 

 islinguished the broad-leaved form as a species under the name of S. pectinatum. 



' U. S. pungetium, R. Br. Prod. U&. A diffuse herb the branches 

 foliage and inflorescence sprinkled with stellate hairs without ^j^^> f "^ulai 

 Pubescence. Prickles slender but not very bug, rather mime o on the 

 l^ranches, leaves, inflorescence, und calyxes, leaves petiolatefion broad y 

 °vate to almost oblong, irregularly sinuate-lobed, with sho t and bioad but 

 ^cute and sinuately toothed lobes, green on both sides, the l^^ge /ea^es ^ to 

 ^iu. long. Flowers lateral, solitary or 2 together, each o'\J ^l^^/^J^^^^^^^;^^^ 

 ^''tliout anv common peduncle. Calyx 3 to 4 hues 1«;S' "f \ "^ J^^^t 

 "I'nnte lobes, slightlv%nlarged when in fruit. Corolla of ^u^l™!^^^ 

 ?Jout I in. diameter,* with rather broad and short triaugdur lobes. Dun. 

 ^C.Prod.xiii. parti. 295. 



Queensland. Bowen river. Bowman. , ^ , , p nmwn ■ Illawarra, Back- 



^ ». S. Wales. Port Jackson. Banks and Solander, R. Brown , 

 house. 



Victoria. Broadribb river, F. Mueller. .^ ^, ^^^j t, 



itis species resembles some forms of S. armatum, ^ith «nKn i- ^^ 



"'t« 't ; but, besides the indumentum, the inflorescence P^ f ° J l^.,** f „„« F'li*^^' '^ 

 tj constant. In 5. annatum, when the raceme is reduced to 2 flo^^eu, 1 



*ssile on the stem the other is always raised on a peduncle. 



35. S. eremophilum, F. Mnell. in Llnn^n, xx.. 433- A per^nial 

 °^ uudershrub, either small and diffuse or tall and ^'-^^V ^^^'^^^^^^^^ 



".^d inflorescence hirsute with stellate hairs but scarcely tomento^e^ Pnc 



Jg'd and rather long on the stem, leaves and calyxes Lea es petrol 



^."•f cUy ovate, obtuse, undulate and broadly «'"^^^^^-^«^^' !"^,7,Crt and 

 'des scarcely above 1 in. long in the specimens seen. ^^Xadly cam- 

 ^^^v-flowered,\he pedicels at length above *m. long, ^af^roa^^^^^ 

 pnlate, about 3 lines long at the time of ^^"^""S'J;;/^'^^^^^^^^ after 

 ^ddle into broadly lanceolate membranous lobes, "^"f /"^^^""t reach- 

 ^!^-enn. Corolla fabout f in. diameter, with b-oad acute lobes no ^^^^^^ 

 '""S to the middle. Anthers tapering upwards. Berry «loDu 

 covered by the erdarged slightly prickly calyx. 



^- S. 'Wales. Macquairie river. Bowman. 



