Solarium.] 
LXXXVI. S0LANACE7E. 
1091 
Racemes lateral, loose, the common peduncle elongated. Flowering calyx 2 to 3 
lines long, with short lanceolate lobes, very tomentose, with small prickles ; when 
in fruit globular, membranous, very prickly, about fin. diameter, completely 
enclosing the globular berry, the broad triangular lobes almost meeting over it. 
Corolla very tomentose, f to fin. diameter, shortly and broadly lobed. — Dun. in 
DC. Prod, xiii., part i. 297. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
According to R. Brown the berry is almost 4-eelled (subquadrilocularis), which I have been 
unable to verify in our specimens. In two flowers that I examined I found the ovary 2-eelled 
only, but with slight indications of transverse spurious dissepiments, which may probably grow 
out as the fruit enlarges. — Benth. 
43. S, ellipticum (elliptic), R. Br. Prod. 44G ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 464. 
A shrub or undershrub, either very low and spreading or taller and erect, the 
branches foliage and inflorescence covered with a dense stellate tomentum, 
sometimes very thick soft and velvety or floccose, sometimes shorter and closer. 
Prickles slender, few or numerous on the stems and calyxes, few or none on the 
leaves. Leaves petiolate, from broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, 
obtuse, entire or slightly sinuate or undulate, rounded or cordate at the base, 
mostly 1 to nearly 3in. long. Flowers in lateral racemes, often longer than the 
leaves, the pedicels usually short. Calyx-tube at the time of flowering 1 to 2 
lines long, the lobes or teeth narrow and thick, from very short to fully twice as 
long as the tube ; after flowering the calyx much enlarged and dividing into 
broad lobes with short or long narrow points. Corolla violet, with short broad 
lobes, apparently varying in size from about f to about fin. diameter. Ovary 
2-celled. Berry globular, surrounded by but not enclosed in the enlarged calyx. 
— Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 298 ; S. lithophilurn, F. v. M. in Linnasa, xxv. 
434, and Fragm. vi. 145. 
Hab.: Broadsound. R. Brown; near Peak Range, Leichhardt; Suttor desert, Dawson and 
Mackenzie Rivers, F. v. Mueller ; Rockhampton, O’Slumesy, Dallaehy ; Suttor and Connor 
Rivers and Nerkool Creek, Bowman: Flinders River, Sutherland ; Maranoa River, Mitchell; 
Armadilla, Barton. 
44. S. quadriloculatum (4-celled), F. v. M. Frat/m . ii. 161 ; Benth. 
FI. Antitr. iv. 464. An undershrub attaining several feet, the branches foliage 
and inflorescence densely and softly stellate-tomentose. Prickles straight, 
rather slender, long or short, few or many on the stems and calyxes, few or none 
on the leaves. Leaves petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
entire, very unequal at the base, thick and soft, 2 to 4 or even 5in. long; 
Flowers small and numerous, in long lateral racemes (the upper ones sterile ?), 
the pedicels rather short. Calyx-tube campanulate, under 2 lines long, with 
short or long soft points or lobes, enlarged after flowering and dividing into 
broad lobes with narrow points. Corolla above ^in. diameter, rather deeply 
lobed. Ovary 4-celled. Berry globular, surrounded by but not enclosed in the 
enlarged calyx, but not seen quite ripe. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 
3. PHYSALIS, Linn. 
(Alluding to the inflated calyx.) 
Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed, inflated after flowering. Corolla broadly cam- 
panulate or nearly rotate, 5-angled, folded in the bud. Anthers short, opening 
longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled. Berry globular, enclosed in the inflated calyx. 
