464! Lxxxii. soLANEiE. [Sohmm. 



diameter, excessively ILick. Racemes longer; flowers antl calyx the same but more 

 woolly. 



IPI, Australia. N.W. coastj Bynoe, 



47. S, ellipticum, S. _Sr. Proi. 446, A slirub or unclerslirub, either 

 very low and spreading or taller and erect, the branches foliage and inflo- 

 'rescence covered with a dense stellate tomentum, sometimes very thick soft 

 and velvety or floccose, sometimes shorter and closer. Prickles slender, few 

 or numerous on the stems and calyxes, few or none on the leaves. Leaves 

 petiolate, from broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse^ entu'e or 

 sliglitly sinuate or undulate, rounded or cordate at the base, mostly 1 to 

 nearly 3 in. long. Plowers in lateral racemes, often longer than the leaves, 

 the pedicels usually short. Calyx-tube at the time of flowering 1 to % nnes 

 long, the lobes or teeth narrow and thick, from very sliort to fully twice as 

 long as the tube ; after flowering the calyx much enlarged and dividing into 

 broad lobes with short or long narrow points. Corolla violet, with short 

 broad lobes, apparently varying in size from about \ to above f in. diameter. 

 Ovary 2-celled. Berry globular, sfirroundcd by but not enclosed in the en- 

 larged calyx.— Dun. in DC. Prod, xiii. part i. 2"J8 ; >S. lUho^hiliun^Y* Miiell. 

 in Linna^a, xxv. 434. 



W. Australia. Tlamraersley Range, N.W. coast, Maiiland Brown; Sea Eangc 

 Start's Creek, F. Mueller, - „ , 



Queensland. Eroad Sound, R. Brown; near Peak Rans;e, Zeic/Jiardf; ^^^^^^ 

 desert, l)a^vson anJ ^Mackenzie rivers, t\ Mueller; Rockhampton, ffShanesy, Vidlacnj, 

 Suttor aud Connor rivers and Xerkool Creek, BuW7na7i ; Flinders river, buiheriana , 

 Maranoa river, Mitchell; Armadillo, Barton. . -n ^ •.- 



W. S. Wales. Peele's Range, Eraser ; Darling river, E. Giles ; thence to the learnt 

 Range, Victorian Expedition ; Mount Murchison, ^^;???^3^. , ,. jr- -. 



S. Australia. Fhnders Range aud Cudaaka, F, Mueller; near Spencer s buir,'|^^ 

 burton; in the iuterior, M'LouaU Stuart; Cooper's River, A, C. Gregory; Lake uu ^j 



nu 



d 



Burkiit, 



Var. pannifoHum, A. Cuun. 



almost woolly 



Var. panmfolum, A. Cuun. Tomentum ferruginous, very copious, aimosi 

 Stems very prickly but not the leaves.— Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, A. Cunningnanu 



4S. S. quadriloculatum, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 161- An ^^^^^^^^^fljj 

 attaining several feet,tlie branches foliage and.inflorescence densely and so ^^ 

 stellate-tomeutose. Prickles straight, rather slender, long or short, re\r 

 many on the stems and calyxes, few or none on the leaves. Leaves P^^^*?^^^^^' 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, entire, very unequal at the Da^^ 

 thick and soft, 2 to 4 or even 5 in. long. Flowers small and f^^^"'^^^^^,^' . 

 long lateral racemes (the upper ones sterile?), the pedicels J-^^thcr sn • 

 Calyx-tube campanulate, under 2 lines long, with short or long soft po^"^ 

 lobes, enlarged after flowering and dividing into broad lobes ^^^^^^ "^^„j 

 pomts. Corolla above \ in. diameter, rather deeply lobed. Ovary ^''^\' 

 Lerry globular, sun'ouuded by but not enclosed in tlie enlarged calyx, 

 not seen cjuite ripe. 



,,^' ^^^^'T^^*- Upper Victoria river and Nicholson river, Gulf of CaiT^^^taria, 

 Mueller; m the iuterior, lat. 22% M'Doualt Stuart, 



49. S. plilcinoiaes, J. Ctmn. Herb. Au undcrshrub or shrub, eit ^f 



