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SOLANACE^. 



555. Solamim pubescens Willd. 



Goody Goody, nine miles from Derby (W.V.P.). 



A spreading shrub, 3ft. in height. In moist sandy soil. 



Although there is a possibility of this Asiatic species having been 

 introduced, the specimens differ from typic ones by having 

 a much larger calyx and constantly white flowers. 



556. iS". ellipticum R. Br. var. pannifolium A. Cunn. 



N.W. Coast; Cambridge Gulf (A. Cunn.); Wyndham; Goose 



Hill, near Ord River (W.V.F.). 

 Among sandstone and quartzite rocks. 



557. S. quadriloculatum F. v M. 



Roebuck Bay (J. W. 0. Tepper) ; Lennard, Isdell, Barnett, 

 Hann, Charnlev and Calder Rivers; Mt. Herbert; Station 

 Creek (W.V.F.). 



Erect or diffuse, 2-3ft. high; flowers bluish-jjurple ; fruits yel- 

 low. Some specimens appear to differ, although all have 

 a four-celled ovary; the flowers are differently disposed, 

 the males in lateral racemes, the females solitary; axillary 

 and on a different branch of the same plant ; the fruiting 

 calyces appear to assume three forms. In sandy soil. 



558. S. cataphractum A. Cunn. 



An erect, much-branched shrub, 3-4ft. high; calyces 4-4V2 lines 

 long when in flower, much enlarged in fruit, lobed to below 

 the middle, the lobes narrow-ovate and ending in acuminated 

 leafy tips; corollas purple, 2/3in. across, lobed to one- 

 third of its width, the lobes broad, obtuse; anthers narrow- 

 oblong, 21/2 lines long, obtuse, on short filiform filaments; 

 fruits 6-7 lines diameter; yellow when ripe. The diagnosis 

 published in the Flora Australiensis was based on fruiting 

 specimens only. When in flower the branches are stellate- 

 tomentose, the tomentum disappearing as the fruiting ad- 

 vances. 



559. S. echinatum R. Br. 



Diffuse, 2ft. high; flowers to %in. in diameter; fruiting-calys 

 densely prickly; fruits completely four-celled. 



560. 8. Cunninghamii Benth. 

 Diffuse, to 3ft. high. 



561. S. femn-ii i KliTrTT i tt (W.V.F.), n. sp. 



- An erect or spreading shrub, the branches, foliage, and inflor- 

 escence closely invested with a yellowish or reddish stellate 

 ' tomentum; prickles slender on the stems and branches, few 

 or absent from the leaves and male calyces, numerous on 



