Solanutn.] 
LXXXVI. SOLANACILF. 
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contracted into a rather long petiole. Pedicels lateral, solitary or 2 or 8 together 
in a cluster or on a very short common peduncle. Calyx deeply divided into 
ovate lanceolate herbaceous segments. Corolla white, rather small, divided to 
about the middle. Filaments short ; anthers connivent and tapering upwards. 
Berry globular, bright-red or yellow. 
Hab.: A stray from cultivation. 
5. S. Shanesii (after P. O’Shanesy), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 144 and 254 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 448. An erect shrub, attaining 8ft., with slender glabrous 
branches. Leaves deciduous, solitary or the upper ones in pairs, ovate, acuminate, 
membranous, entire, glabrous above, sprinkled underneath with simple not 
stellate hairs, li- to 2in. long, the lamina decurrent on a rather long petiole. 
Calyx cup-shaped, 1J line long, truncate or repand. Corolla blue, deeply 5-lobed ; 
lobes lanceolate, about 3 lines long. Stamens free Filaments very short. 
Anthers linear-oblong, somewhat attenuated, yellow, 2 lines long, pores terminal. 
Style straight, glabrous, almost 3 lines long. Stigma capitate, minute. Fruiting 
pedicels solitary or 2 together, reflexed. Berry globular, red, about |in. diameter. 
Hab.: More’s Creek, Rockhampton, Dallachy, O’Shanesy. 
6. S. viride (green), R. Br. Prod. 445 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 449. 
“ Boolally,” Barron River, J. F. Bailey. An erect undershrub or shrub of 6 to 
12ft. or even more, quite glabrous except the stellate pubescence of the flowers, 
and sometimes a very few small stellate hairs scattered on the upper leaves. 
Leaves solitary or in pairs, ovate-oblong, obtuse, shortly acuminate or rather 
acute, membranous, entire or obscurely sinuate, 8 to 5in. long on rather 
long petioles. Flowers in forked pedunculate cymes, terminal or lateral, the 
branches of the cyme short, the pedicels often above fin. long after flowering, 
the whole inflorescence and calyx glabrous or slightly stellate-tomentose, the 
corolla always stellate-pubescent outside. Calyx scarcely above 1 line long at the 
time of flowering, the lobes obtuse either very short or separating to the middle. 
Corolla deeply divided into narrow lobes of 3 to 4 lines. Filaments very short ; 
anthers connivent and tapering upwards. Berries small, globular, red. — Dun. 
in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 190 ; riridifoliuin, Dun. l.c. 73. 
Hab.: If roadsourid, R. Brown: Cape Grafton, Banks and Solander ; Cape York, Dirmel : 
islands off the N.E. coast. A. Cunningham, M'Gillivray, F. v. Mueller, and others: Pori 
Denison, Fitzalan ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Port Mackay. Nernst ; common in the tropical 
scrubs. 
7. S. tetrandrum (4 stamens), R. Br. Prod. 445; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 
449. An erect unarmed undershrub of 2 to 3ft., sprinkled with a small stellate 
tomentum, rather dense on the inflorescence, more scattered on the leaves and 
sometimes disappearing from the upper surface. Leaves mostly in pairs, 
petiolate, ovate, obtuse or shortly acuminate, entire or obscurely sinuate, 
membranous, the larger ones 3 to Gin. long. Flowers small, in short loose 
lateral racemes, the common peduncle not so long as in S. viride and not at all 
or very rarely forked. Calyx 2 to 2f lines long, very tomentose, unequally 
divided to about the middle. Corolla stellate-pubescent outside, under Ain . long, 
divided nearly to the base into narrow lobes. Filaments short ; anthers conni- 
vent and tapering upwards. Berry small globular. — Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. 
part i. 194; Seem. FI. Vit. 176; S', inamcenum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. -Tourn. 
ii. 228; Dun. l.c. 269. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
The species is also in the South Pacific islands. The flowers, in this as in S. viride, are 
occasionally, but not always, 4-merous ; several 5-merous flowers o.eur indeed in Brown’s own 
specimens. — Benth. 
Var ? floribundum . Corollas larger, very tomentose, and one of the peduncles of the specimen 
forked. — From Leichhardt's collection, a single specimen in Herb. F. v. Mueller, — Benth. 
