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LXXXVI. SOLANACE J3. 
[Solatium . 
always less open than in other Australian species, about lin. diameter, very 
shortly and broadly lobed. Anthers but slightly tapering upwards. Berry 
globular, f to lin. diameter, surrounded by but not completely enclosed in the 
enlarged prickly calyx. — Dun. in DC. Prod, xiii., part i. 297 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3672. 
Hab.: Araucaria Ranges, Burnett River, and other southern localities. 
39. s. adenophorum (gland-bearing), F. r. M. Fragm. ii. 162 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iv. 460. An erect perennial, sometimes under 1ft. and from that to 2ft. 
high, the branches foliage and inflorescence hirsute with simple or stellate hairs 
mixed with a glandular pubescence. Prickles slender, rather numerous on the 
branches, leaves, inflorescence and calyxes. Leaves petiolate, ovate, sinuately 
lobed or pinnatifid with rather obtuse sinuate lobes, green on both sides, 2 to 4in. 
long. Flowers rather small, pale-blue or white, in loose racemes on rather long 
peduncles. Calyx 2 to 4 lines long at the time of flowering, deeply divided into 
narrow subulate-acuminate lobes, enlarged in fruit and the points then very 
long. Corolla glabrous or with a very few stellate hairs outside, about |in. 
diameter, deeply divided into narrow lobes. Anthers rather long, tapering 
upwards. Berry whitish, globular, scarcely iin. diameter. 
Hab.: Barren hills between the Mackenzie and Dawson Rivers, F. v. Mueller (with most of 
the leaves rather deeply lobed) ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy (leaves mostly sinuate-toothed or 
shortly lobed). 
40. S> cinereum (grey), R. Br. Prod. 446 ; Benth. FI. Austr.. iv. 460. An 
erect undershrub, the branches and inflorescence stellate-tomentose. Prickles 
slender, numerous on the branches, leaves, inflorescence, and calyxes. Leaves 
petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acuminate, more or less deeply 
sinuate-lobed or pinnatifid, 2 to 5in. long, green above and glabrous or sprinkled 
with a few minute stellate hairs, white underneath with a soft stellate often 
floccose tomentum. Flowers blue, rather large, in pedunculate racemes often as 
long as the leaves, the pedicels at first short, much elongated in fruit. Calyx 
3 to 4 lines long, somewhat enlarged after flowering, densely prickly, with 
acuminate lobes. Corolla nearly lin. diameter, with short broad acute lobes. 
Berry globular, f to lin. diameter. — Dun. in DC. Prod, xiii., part i. 294. 
Hab.: Southern inland localities. 
S. semiarmatum has sometimes the aspect of this species, but is readily known by the small 
calyx with short teeth and without prickles, and by the more numerous smaller flowers. — Benth. 
41. S. carduiforme (Cardoon-like), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 163; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iv. 462. An erect herb of 1 to 3ft., of a pale glaucous green, covered with 
a stellate tomentum rather loose on the branches, very short and not dense on 
both sides of the leaves. Prickles rather slender but long and very numerous on 
the branches, leaves, and especially on the female calyxes. Leaves narrow, 
irregularly pinnatifid, with rather narrow obtuse entire or sinuate lobes, the 
whole leaf 3 to 4in. long. Sterile flowers numerous, in dense racemes on long 
lateral peduncles. Calyx at the time of flowering about 3 lines long, campanu- 
late, with broad lobes. Corolla not large. Fertile flowers probably solitary on 
lateral peduncles, which are still very short in fruit. Fruiting calyx large, 
globular, very densely armed with long rigid prickles, enclosing a globular berry 
of |in. or more. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 
42. S. echinatum (echinate), R. Br. Prod. 447 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 463. 
An erect or diffuse undershrub, the branches foliage and inflorescence very 
densely and softly stellate-tomentose, often velvety or floccose. Prickles slender, 
rather small on the stems, few or none on the leaves, more abundant and longer 
on the calyxes. Leaves on rather long petioles, ovate oblong or lanceolate, 
obtuse, entire or slightly sinuate, very thick and soft, mostly 1 to 2in. long. 
