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12. S. stelligerum (starry hairs), Svi. Exot. Bot. ii. 57, t. 88 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iv. 450. An erect shrub, sometimes small and slender, sometimes 
attaining 6ft. or even more, the branches, under side of the leaves, and 
inflorescence covered with a stellate tomemtum, often loose and floccose. 
Prickles straight or slightly recurved on the branches and sometimes on the upper 
side of the leaves, but not numerous. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, very rarely on luxuriant shoots broad and obtuse, 
usually glabrous and smooth on the upper side except minute stellate hairs along 
the principal veins, mostly 2 to 4in. long. Flowers blue, rather small, in lateral 
racemes, the common peduncle very short, the pedicels lengthening to about 4in. 
or even lin. under the fruit. Calyx under 2 lines long when in flower, with 
narrow acuminate lobes, somewhat lengthened under the fruit and then often 
divided to near the base. Corolla usually under 4-in. diameter, deeply divided 
into narrow lobes. Anthers eonnivent and tapering upwards. Berry red, 
globular, small. — -R. Br. 445 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 191. 
Hab.: Keppel Bay, R. Broivn ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller, 
and others; Rockhampton, Dallachy and others; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Araucaria 
Ranges, Burnett River, F. v. Mueller ; Armadilla, Barton ; Wawick, Beckler. 
Some specimens from the Araucaria Ranges, Burnett River, F. v. Mueller, sent by him as a 
var. lucorum. have the leaves sprinkled on the upper surface with a few stellate hairs. Brown’s 
Keppel Bay specimens have a more rufous tomentum, showing some approach to S. furfuracenm, 
but very much more glabrous on the upper surface of tbe leaves. — Benth. 
Var. ? magnifolium. Leaves broadly ovate. 4 to 8in. long, mostly sinuate, with several 
prickles on the upper side. Flowers very few in the imperfect spec imens seen, but quite those 
of S. stelligerum. — Murray River, Rockingham Bay. Dallachy ; mountain brush, Moreton Bay, 
Leichhardt (both in Herb. F. v. Mueller).— Benth. 
13. S. parvifolium (small-leaved), II. Br. Prod. 446 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
iv. 451. A bushy slender shrub, closely allied to the small-leaved varieties of 
S. stelligerum, but the leaves are narrow-oblong or almost linear, always obtuse, 
quite entire or with a short broad lobe on each side near the base, glabrous 
above, stellate-tomentose underneath, in some specimens not above lin. long, 
in others twice as long. Flowers blue, like those of S. stelligerum. Calyx about 
1 line long when in flower and not 2 lines when in fruit, deeply divided into 
acuminate lobes. Corolla deeply lobed. Berry small, globular.— Dun. in DC. 
Prod. xiii. part i. 191 ; S. leptophyllum , F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 164. 
Hab.: Broadsound, R. Brown ; Brigalow scrub on the Mackenzie and Suttor Rivers, F.v. 
Mueller ; in the interior, Mitchell; Cape River, Bowman; Armadilla, Barton (with rather larger 
flowers). 
14. S. ferocissimum (numerous prickles), Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. 
ii. 58; Benth. El. Austr. iv. 451. A low straggling slender shrub, allied to 
S. parvifolium , the branches rather loosely stellate-tomentose. Prickles long 
and slender, very jaumerous on the branches and leaves, none on the calyx. 
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, not so obtuse as in S. parvifolium , entire or 
the larger ones hastately lobed at the base, 1 to 2in. long, glabrous or w r ith loose 
stellate hairs especially underneath, without the close tomentum of S. parvifolium . 
Flowers small, blue, in loose racemes, with a very short common peduncle and 
slender pedicels. Calyx 1 to 14 line long in flower, somewhat enlarged in fruit, 
deeply divided into acuminate lobes. Corolla about diameter, deeply lobed. 
—Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 373. 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
15. S. sporadotrichum (hairs scattered), F. v. M. in Melb. Chemist, Oct. 
1882. A shrubby plant, the branches almost glabrous, but copiously armed 
with short slender prickles. Leaves nearly ovate in outline, green on both sides, 
margins undulate, the whole more or less covered with stellate hairs. Racemes 
short. Calyx-lobes narrow. Corolla white. 
Hab. : Mount Dryander. 
