is not a wrong one, introduced there by mistake. We con- 

 fess our persuasion of their being distinct. On Mr. Brown's 

 suggestion we have placed the genus in the order Solanece. 

 It comes very close to Lycium. 



We are obliged to Mr. Lambert for the opportunity of 

 taking the drawing, from a sample that came from the hot- 

 house at Boyton, his seat in Wiltshire. 



Native of South America. Very lately introduced into 

 the Physic Garden at Chelsea, from Berlin; where it had 

 most probably been raised fi-om seed brought home by 

 Messrs. Humboldt and fionpland. 



An upright branching rank-smelling shrub; branches 

 copiously leaved, round, villous. Leaves scattered, near, 

 oblongly oval, smooth, entire, subsessile or very shortly 

 subpetioled, outspread, longer ones IJ or 2 inches in length, 

 rather glossy at the upper side. Peduncles lateral, placed 

 above and out of the direction of the axil of the leaf, as- 

 cendent, 1-2-flowered, round, villous, s of an inch long, 

 jointed a little below the calyx. Cafyx inferioi*, 3 times 

 shorter than the corolla, tubularly cupshaped, 5-nerved, 

 with a sinuated 5-toothed downy edge. Corolla of one piece, 

 pale yellow, elongatedly tubular, more tban an inch long; 

 tube equal to the calyx ; Jaux cylindrical, rather wider than 

 the tube, obsoletely pentagonal below; llmh 3 times shorter 

 than the faux, even, stellated, tomentosely villous, with- 

 out segments, angularly ovate, acute. Filaments longly 

 protruded, nearly equal, connivent above, capillary, inserted 

 below the faux at the mouth of the tube, widened at the 

 base and bearded with a white wool: anthers brown, sa^t- 

 tately cordate, didymously locular, fixed at the notch in 

 their base to the point of the filament, loculaments, when 

 the pollen has been voided, of a round peltate form. Sti/le 

 as long as the filaments, 3 times tWcker, greenish, inserted 

 at the umbilicated summit of the germen ; stigma deep green, 

 obtuse obsoletely indented- Germen round, marked above 

 with 4 seams, green, many-seeded, bilocnlar, with two 

 placentiform receptacles, one gi'own to each side of the dis- 

 sepiment; ovula globular. 



