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* GRABÓWSKIA boerhaavizfölia. 
Boerhaavia-leaved Grabowskia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SOLANACEE. 
GRABOWSKIA Schlechtendahl in Linnea vol. 7. p. 71. Calyx 
subcampanulatus regulariter 5-dentatus. sestivatione valvari. Corolla e tubo 
brevi infundibuliformis, limbo 5-partito, laeiniis patentibus reflexisve, quatuor 
eestivatione convolutiva, quinta externa marginibus suis vicinarum margines 
obtegens. Genitalia exserta. Stamina 5 equalia, filamentis paulo supra tubi 
basin liberis, medio dense villosis (villis basin versus decrescentibus). Stylus 
teres, stigmate subcapitato aut leviter bifido. Germen 4-loculare, loculamentis 
l-ovulatis. Bacca calyce persistente suffulta, globosa, dipyrena, pyrenis 
lignosis bilocularibus, loculis 1-spermis.  Embryo hamato-curvatus, cylin ricus. 
— Frutex habitu Lycii genuini ramosissimus, spinis axillaribus horridus ; 
olüs sparsis integerrimis. Flores axillares c. fasciculis foliorum (ramulo 
non evoluto); aut subcorymbosi in ramulis summis (hinc in ultimis ramis 
quasi paniculati). : 
G. boerhaaviefolia. Schlecht. l. c. 
Lycium boerhaaviefolium. Linn. suppl. p. 150. Lam. Encycl. 3. 510. 
Willd. Sp. pl. 1. 1060. 
Ehretia halimifolia L' Herit. Stirp. 1. 45. t. 83. : 
Lycium heterophyllum. Murray. Comment. gott. 1783. p. 6. t. 2. 1 i 
Flores oppositifolü, solitari. Calyx carnosus, subregularis, sapius 
latere fissus. Corolla pallida, plumbeo-cerulea, estivatione imbricata, 
laciniis margine reflexis, venis viridibus reticulatis ad basin ; seriebus quin- 
t tubum a 
basi staminum occupantibus. Discus auranliacus, carnosus, citò, ovario 
crescente, absorptus. Ovarium carnosum, 4-loculare ; ovulo solitario sphe- 
rico ascendente in quoque loculo; stylus simplex, glaber ; stigma incrassatum, 
viride, utrinque declive, viz bilobum. 
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A spiny scrambling shrub, with singular fleshy, glaucous 
leaves, which give it È grey appearance, like Atriplex Hali- 
* Named by Professor von Schlechtendahl after Mr. H. Grabowsky, an 
apothecary of Ohlaf, and together with Wimmer, the author of a good Flora 
Silesiaca. 
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