460. Lxxxii- soLANEiE. [Sohnvm, 



S. Anstralia. Clayey somewhat saline pastures, Flinders Range, and between Roel^y 

 river and Rocky Creek, F. Mueller. 



Yvom each station I have seen only a single small specimen in Herb. F. Mueller. 



36. S. campanulatum, K Br. Prod. 446. A coarse erect herb (or 

 undershrub ?) of 2 to 3 ft., the branches foliage and inilorescence more or 

 less hirsute with stellate or simple hairs mixed with a gbndular pubescence. 

 Prickles straight, rather slender, numerous on the stem, leaves and inflores- 

 cence, few and small on the calyxes. Leaves petiqlate, ovate, siuuate-lobed, 

 with short bread angular or sinuate lobes or rarely more deeply puuiatifid, 

 green on both sides, 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers few, in loose lateral racemes, the 

 pedicels at length above 1 in. long and distant along the common peduncle. 

 Calyx 4 to 5 lines long, with subulate-acuminate lobes, enlarged in fruit and 

 deeply divided into lanceolate acuminate segments. Corolla violet or blue, 

 broadly carapanulate or sometimes almost rotate, but always less open than 

 in other Australinn species, about 1 in. diameter, very shortly and broadly- 

 lobed. Anthers but slightly tapering upwards. Berry globular, f to 1 in- 

 diameter, surrounded by but not completely enclosed in the enlarged prickly 

 calyx.— Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 297 i I^ot. Mag. t. 3672. 



Queensland. Araucaria Kanges, Burnet river, Leichhardt (apparently this species, 

 but the specimen impeiTecl). r 77 A^ v 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson and Grose river, 72. Brown; Currecjong, ^oolh; ^e^ 

 England, C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Beckler. 



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01. ^, -duexiopxiorum, F. Muell Fragm. ii. 162. An erect perennial, 

 sometimes under 1 ft. and from that to 2 ft. high, the branches fohage ana 

 inflorescence hirsute with simple or stellate hairs mixed with a glandular pu- 

 bescence. Prickles slender, rather numerous on the branches, leaves, \nno- 

 rescence, and calyxes. Leaves petiolate, ovate, sinuately lobed or puiuatin^ 

 with rather obtuse sinuate lobes, green on both sides, 2 to 4 in. lo^i^^ 

 Plowers rather small, Dale blue or white, in loose racemes on rather loii^ 

 peduncles. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long at the time of flowering, deeply divui^^^ 

 into narrow subulate-acuminate lobes, enlarged in fruit and the P?|^^'^ j 

 very long. Corolla glabrous or with a very few stellate bairs outside, ai)0^ 

 i in. dinmpfpr ^l^PT^lir AWr^AcA -.Vfr^ -^r.^.^,^ ir.'Koc Authors rather loiv 



tapering upwards. Berry whitish, globular, scarcely \ in. diameter. 



Queensland. Barren hills between the Mackenzie and Dawson rivers, K ^^'^^^^^ 

 (with most of the leaves rather deeply lohed) ; Rockingham Bay, Ballachy (leaves m 

 fiinuate-tooihed or shortly lobed). 



38. S. cinereum, 72. Br. Prod. 446. An erect undershrub, the ^^^^^^^^f 



and inflorescence stellate-tomentose. Prickles slender, numerous 011 ^^ 

 branches, leaves, inflorescence, and calyxes. Leaves petiolate, ^^'^^^ - ^ 

 ovate-lanceolate, mostly acuminate, more 'or less deeply sinuate-lobcd or p 

 natifid, 2 to 5 in. long, green above and glabrous or sprinkled with a^ ^^^ 

 minute stellate hairs, white underneath with a soft stellate often ^^^^^\^„ 

 mentum. Flowers blue, rather large, in pedunculate racemes often as | 

 as the leaves, the pedicels at first short, much elongated iu friut. V*? ^'^^. 

 to 4 lines long, somewhat enlarged after flowering, densely prickly, witn 



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