18 Australian Plants. 
34. Velleya connata. 
High, glaucous, smooth; stem upright, dichotomous, with 
Bewded: ole : leaves all radical, elongate-lanceolate, onenerved, 
entire, contracted in a petiole of equal length; bracts very 
large, almost deltoid, acute, half concrete, entire; segments 
of the calyx lanceolate and ovate, accuminate; style villose ; 
seeds densely punctuate, surrounded by a broad wing. 
On scrubby sandhills towards the junction of the Murray 
and Murrumbidgee. 
This highly curious plant also possesses the tonic bit- 
terness which I discovered i in numerous species of Good- 
eniacez. 
SOLANACEA. 
35. Solanum lacunarium. 
Armed all over with setaceous-subulate straight prickles ; 
stem dwarf, suffruticose, branched; leaves petiolate, in cir- 
cumference oblong-ovate, sinuate-pinnatifid, above conspersed 
with stellate hair, at length calvescent ; beneath as well as 
the branches covered with a thin orey toment ; lobes of the 
leaves oblong, rounded-blunt, with entire margin; peduncles 
terminal, 2-6-flowered, seneene ; segments of the calyx 
acutish, deltoid-lanceolate ; anthers yellow. 
In lagoons which are dry during the summer season near 
the junction of the river Darling and Murray. 
It differs from Solanum cinereum (R. Br. prodr. i., 446), 
the only one to which it bears similarity, in its blunt entire 
leaf-lobes, which are together with flowers and berries con- 
siderably smaller, by almost considerably armed peduncles and 
pedicels, and by hardly cuspidate segments of the calyx. 
36. Solanum pulchellum. 
Unarmed; stems procumbent, suffruticose; leaves on 
somewhat long petiols, ovate-or-narrow-oblong, bldnt, repand, 
entire, above pale green, laxely tomentellous, below clothed 
with a shineless, thin, grey toment; peduncles 2-5-flowered, 
generally surpassing the length of the petiole; calyx half as 
long as the corolla, earinulate, with triangular acuminate 
segments ; ; anthers yellow, slightly attenuat, surpassed in 
length by the style. 
Along the Wimmera, Avoca and Murray rivers; thence 
through the desert-country as far as Lake Torrens, Spencet’s 
and St. Vincent gulfs. 
