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pale centre. Berry, globose. A Madagascar plant. This species 
was introduced some years ago as an ornamental plant by the 
Queensland Acclimatisation Society, from whose grounds it has 
spread into the pasture. 
Solanum sodomseum, Linn ., or Apple of Sodom, has become 
widely diffused throughout the southern portions of the colony. 
This South African or Mediterranean species seems to have 
been introduced many years ago into New South Wales. It 
forms a rather rambling shrub of from 3 feet to 5 feet high, 
branches prickly, leaves dark green clothed with short stellate 
hairs and prickles, deeply lobed, on short petioles. Blowers, 
violet, in short irregular racemes ; calyx, prickly ; lobes, obtuse. 
Corolla, large, deeply divided, anthers thick. Fruit, 1 inch or 
more diameter, variegated with green, yellow, and white, having 
a green pulp between the outer rind and the seeds. 
Solanum aeuleatissimum, Jaquin . This is often found 
growing with the last species, but is a shorter plant seldom 
attaining more than 3 feet in height. Leaves, deeply pinnatifid, 
with broad lobes or nearly entire (repand), the larger nerves 
with stout prickles and rather long simple hairs, which are also 
found on the edge of the leaves and gives to them a ciliated 
appearance ; leaves, about 3 inches long on petioles of equal 
length. Flowers, solitary or in pairs, white, peduncles about 
1 inch long ; calyx, prickly and glossy ; lobes, somewhat acute. 
Corolla divided to about the middle into narrow lobes ; anthers 
broad, of a bright yellow at the base, tapering upwards and 
becoming of a much lighter colour, filaments short. Fruit, a 
rich scarlet berry, inside of rind pure white, of a dry consistency, 
placentas small. Seeds, very flat and beautifully reticulate, of a 
golden colour, and surrounded by a thin wing. 
Solanum aculeastrum, Dunal. This is a very large prickly 
shrub which, some years ago, was introduced for the purpose of 
hedge making, under the name of “ Wait-a-bit thorn.” That it 
has taken kindly to both soil and climate may be assumed by its 
being met with in places covering acres of land, with shrubs of 
from 6 to 9 feet in height. The whole plant is armed with stout 
straight or curved prickles and stellate hairs, and the young 
branches and underside of leaves white, with a short, white, close, 
tomentum. Leaves, 3 to 5 inches long, repand or more or less 
deeply lobed. Flowers, solitary or a few on a short peduncle. 
Calyx, with or without prickles, the lobes obtuse with a short 
apiculate point ; small at the time of flowering, but enlarging 
under the fruit. Corolla, white, tomentose with stellate hairs ; 
lobes divided to the base, acute, in most flowers. Anthers, 
bright yellow. Fruit, large, globose, 1 to 2 inches diameter, 
glossy, more or less sprinkled with short conical prickles. Bind, 
hard, thick, yellowish when ripe, seeds embedded in a green pulp 
in the fresh fruit. The plant belongs to South Africa. 
