Lycium. XCI. SOLANACEZ (WRIGHT). 255 
y 
ciliolate, # lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, from yellowish to violet, 
veined, glabrous outside, glandular-bearded in the throat, deeply cleft 
down one side; lobes 5, rounded, about } in. long. Stamens 5, rather 
shorter than the corolla, unequal; filaments hairy towards the base. 
Style slightly longer than the stamens, shortly cleft at the apex. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; on elevated maritime rocks covered 
with blown sand, near Cabo Negro, Welwitsch, 6024! 
3. L. arenicolum, Miers in Ann. d: Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 
14. A much-branched shrub, 9 ft. high; branches glaucous, purplish, 
with decurrent ridges from the cupular nodes. Leaves ‘sessile in 
fascicles of 5-10, linear, 5-7 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, acute, rather fleshy. 
Flowers solitary on very short peduncles, 4-merous. Calyx 1 lin, long, 
shortly and unequally 4-toothed ; teeth ciliate. Corolla about 24 liv. 
long, tubular ; lobes 4, oblong, ciliate, lin. long. Stamens unequal, 
inserted a little above the corolla-base, 1 slightly exserted, 2 reaching 
the throat, the 4th included; filaments hirsute at the base. Ovary 
ovoid, adnate to the red fleshy disk; style exserted ; stigma capitate.— 
Ill. S. Amer. Pl. ii. t. 65, fig. E; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. 
aa bo. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; near Kwebe, Lugard, 70! 
Also in South Africa. 
7. CESTRUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 904. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, valvate. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 
elongate, cylindrical or slightly dilated above, contracted at the base 
around the ovary ; lobes 5, induplicate-valvate. Stamens included, fixed 
near the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments filiform, pilose, incras- 
sate or witha small tooth near the base; anthers short, cells parallel. 
Disk inconspicuous or rather thick. Ovary usually slightly stalked, 
2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma dilated; ovules 3—6 in each cell, micro- 
pyle inferior. Berry slightly fleshy, indehiscent, globose, ovoid or 
oblong. Seeds few or by abortion solitary, oblong, nearly smooth ; 
embryo straight or slightly curved; cotyledons either ovate or oblong 
and much broader than the radicle, or semiterete and scarcely wider 
than it.—Shrubs or trees, glabrous to stellately tomentose. Leaves 
alternate, quite entire. Inflorescence axillary, cymose or fascicled ; 
upper cymes usually corymbose or panicled at the apices of the branches, 
or nearly all lateral at leafless nodes. 
Species about 160, Tropical American. 
1. C. vespertinum, Linn. Mant. Alt. 206. A much-branched 
glabrous shrub, 12-15 ft. high. Leaves oblong, acute, submembranous, 
4 in. long, 1} in. wide. Flowers in axillary subspicate shortly peduncled 
clusters. Calyx campanulate, truncately 5-lobed. Corolla greenish- 
yellow ; tube filiform, 4-3 in. long; lobes narrow, } in. long. Berry 
ovoid.—Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. iii. 43, t. 328; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 
xl.i. 661. — C, jamaicense, Lam. Encycl. i. 687. 
Sy ia Guinea. Princes Island: Barter, 1975! St. Thomas Island, Mann, 
0! 
P robably introduced from the West Indies, where it is common. 
