Solanum.'] LXXXiT. solane.e. ^^^ 



low and prostrate or erect and attaining U to 2 ft., very densely and softly 

 woolly with stellate hairs. Prickles slender, few or numerous as in i>. qnaUn- 

 loculatum. Leaves as in that species ovate or ovate-lnnceolate, mostly acu- 

 minate, 3 to 4 in. long, but thicker and softer. Flowers large, numerous, in 

 long racemes, on very short thick pedicels. Calyx nearly i in. ong when n 

 flower, rather deeply divided into narrow thick lobes, much enlarged aftei- 

 «ards, divided under the fruit into broad acuminate lobes at least 1 m lor 

 and very open. Corolla 1 to 1-^ in. diameter, with short broad lobes. Beuy 

 depressed, globular, above 1 in. diameter. 



N. Australia. Er.derby island, N.W. coast, J Cunningkau ; ^J^ttTroyeJ' y 

 MaiUand Brown. I have been unable to examine the ovary, having found it destroyed uy 



insects in the flowers I opened. 



50. S. Cunninghamii, Benth. Au undershnib or ^l^^^Mrom under 

 1 ft. to 4 or 5 ft. hiih, the branches foliage and inflorescence o;;^ed .i^,^ 

 stellate tomentum, sometimes thick and floccose .^^^P^"^"^ 7,*r/"f|gjSl 

 of the leaves, slio ter and harsher on the upper side, ^f ^^^ ^^^^^^f .^^^ 

 except on the calyx-tube. Leaves petiolate, anceolate or almo. ovat 



••ather obtuse, entii, 2 to 3 in. long, rather tbck and ^f Jl^Xh2r, 

 the specimens seen 1-flowered, lateral, 1 to \\ ui. ^^f ;, ^fj,^.\f„'ost terete 

 not 3 lines long, densely armed with long prickles ; ^^^f j^^'^^ '^^^^^^^^ 

 fuUy twice as long as the tube. Corolla large witli acu e or aum^mate lob , 

 not well open in our specimens, but evidently above 1^ m. diameter. 

 not seen 



N. Australia. Cygnet Bay. N.W. eoast. ^^^'-tfz:";S"udTsofttfm:t; 

 ^"rten. The flowers are probably nioncecious, as m ^"^^ J^lf^^l'^fl "^'' 

 w sterile flowers may he, as in other species, racemose and less prickiy. 



•2. NICANDKA, Gfertn. 



Calyx of 5 distinct broadly cordate segments or ^^fj^^j J'^^^^iJllS ^'s! 

 f arged and inflated in fruit. 'coroUa campamilate wi 5 ^ro^d ho t 

 folded (and perhaps also slightly imbrieated) m l)l^f^J;^,,io..^ in 

 Pen.ng longitudiially. Ovary 3- to 5-celled. J''^J_Z,rect annual, 

 fte enlarged calyx. Embiyo curved in a fleshy albumen. An 

 *ith the habit and foliage nearly of PhysaUs. 



'Oie genus is limited to a single species. 



"^ .... ' 1 : A Of 



N 



An 

 ually 



«rec glabrous annual or biennial, attaining someuu... ., ^^ 



f-^aller. Leaves petiolate, ovate, irregularly sinuate «; ^^'^^ /^^li^^,,,, ,,, 

 '?^ed. 8 or 4 in. lon^ or sometimes larger. Tlowers pale blue s . 



'«^ed. 8 or 4 in. long or sometimes larger. 1 lowers paie u^u. 

 ^tort pedicels in the^pper axils, forming a terminal kafy racm ^^ ^^^^^ 

 ^^gments at the time of flowering a little more ^^^ fned' closely connivent, 

 f o^s, when in fruit above 1 in. long, thin and «>"«^\:f ^^g^^^^^^^^ 1 ^^^ 



orming a vesicular calyx with very prominent angles, 



°^2'- Berry globular." ^,. , , .. „« ^^ a weed in 



-•■ S. Wales. A native of S. America, ^hich has ^^f ^^^f^, '^^^ as such from 

 ^^;eral parts of the warm'er regions of the Old World, and has 

 ^anous parts of N. S. Wales (Herb. F. Mueller and otheis;. 2 ^ 



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