SOLANACEAE. 
Determined by CAMILLO SCHNEIDER. 
LYCIUM L. 
Lycium chinense Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 8, No. 5 (1768). — Lamarck, 
Enc. Méth. III. 509 (1791). — Poiret! in Now. Duhamel, I. 116, t: 30 
(1801?). — Watson, Dendr. Brit. I. 8, t. 8 (1825). — Loudon, Arb. 
Brit. III. 1271, fig. 1110, 1111 (1838). — G. Don, Gen. Syst. IV. 458 
(1838). — Dunal in De Candolle, Prodr. XIII. pt. 1, 510 (1852). — K. 
Koch, Dendr. II. pt. 1, 348 (1872). — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. I. 
25, fig. 11 (1889). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 175 (1890). — 
Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 518 (1893). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 
963 (1900); in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 374 (Pl. Chin. Forrest.) 
(1913). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 611, fig. 394 f-g, 395 f-k 
(1911). — Bean, Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isl. II. 61 (1914). — Rehder in 
Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. IV. 1930, fig. 2229 (1916). 
Lycium barbarum, var. chinense Aiton, Hort. Kew. I. 257 (1789). 
Lycium Trewianum? Roemer & Schultes, Syst. IV. 693 (1820). — G. 
Don, Gen. Syst. IV. 458 (1838). — Loudon, Arb. Brit. III. 1271 (1838). 
Western Hupeh: Changlo Hsien, roadsides, etc., alt. 600—1300 
m., July 1907 (No. 3536; shrub 0.5-1 m. tall, flowers purple); Ichang, 
A. Henry (without No.). Western Szech'uan: Min River valley, 
Mao-chou, alt. 1100-2000 m., September 1908 (No. 3536*; shrub 0.5-1 
m., fruits scarlet, edible). Chili: Peking, on city wall, July 15, 1913, 
F. N. Meyer (No. 1019); same locality, yellow temple, September 16, 
1903, C. S. Sargent. Yunnan: “ Rocky moist situations below high 
water level, Salwin-Irrawadi divide. Only at one place near Chongwa," 
alt. 1000 m., November 1904, G. Forrest (No. 952; spreading shrub 
0.5-1 m., flowers heliotrope); eastern flank of the Lichiang Range, open 
situations in pine forests, alt. about 3000 m., September 1914, C. 
Schneider (No. 2222; shrub up to 1.25 m. tall). Chekiang: vicinity 
of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor. 
! According to Dunal, who has seen the specimens of Lamarck, Poiret is the author 
of the descriptions i z een 
1801 Ai me gm in the Nouveau Duhamel, which appeared in eighty parts between 
spini E Species is founded on Lycium foliis oblongo-lanceolatis sine ordine, ramorum 
aan rarioribus of Trew, Pl. Select. Ehret. t. 68 (1750). It seems to be in no way 
erent from typical L. chinense. 
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