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Australian Plants. 



34. Velleya connata, 



High^ glaucous, smooth ; stem upright, dichotomous, with 

 bearded axils; leaves all radical, elongate-lanceolate, onenerved, 

 entire, contracted in a petiole of equal length j bracts very- 

 large, almost deltoid, acute, half concrete, entire ; segments 

 of the calyx lanceolate and ovate, acuminate; style villose; 

 seeds densely punctate, surrounded by a broad wing. 



On scrubby sandhills towards the jimction of the Murray 

 and Murrumbidgee. 



This highly curious plant also possesses the tonic bit- 

 terness which I discovered in numerous species of Good- 

 eniacese. 



SoLANACEiE. 



35. Solanum lacunarium. 



Armed all over with setaceous-subulate straight prickles; 

 stem dwarf, suflfruticose, 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 grey toment ; lobes of the 

 leaves oblong, rounded-blunt, with entire margin ; peduncles 

 terminal, 2-6-flowered, aculeate ; 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 constantly armed peduncles and 

 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, blunt, 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, carinulate, 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, Spencer's 

 and St. Vincent gulfs. 



