Tab. 4149 



lycium fuchsioides. 

 Fuchsia-flowered Lycium. 



Nat. Ord. SoLANEiE. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



LYCIUM. L. — Char. Gen. Calyx urceolatus, aequaliter quinqueden- 

 tatus v. irregulariter tri- quinquefidus. Corolla hypogyna, infundibuliformis 

 v. tubulosa, limbo quinque- decemfido v. dentato, interdum plicato. Stamina 

 5, medio v. imo corolla? tubo inserta, inclusa v. exserta ; antherce longitudi- 

 naliter dehiscentes. Ovarium biloculare, placentis dissepimento adnatis, 

 multiovulatis. Stylus simplex; stigma depresso-capitatum v. obsolete bilo- 

 bum. Bacca calyce suffulta bilocularis. Semina plurima, reniformia. 

 Embryo intra albumen carnosum periphericus, hemicyclicus. — Arbuscuke 

 v. frutices, in regione Mediterranea et in America tropica transandina 

 crescentes, plurimi quo ad seminis structuram nondum explorati, etfortas- 

 sis olim e genere expellendi; foliis alternis, integerrimis, interdum fascicu- 

 latis; pedunculis extra axillaribus aut terminalibus, solitariis, geminis v. 

 umbellatis, rarius corymbosis; corollis albidis,Jlavescentibus, roseis, pur- 

 pureis v. coccineis. Endl. 



^QiVM.*/uchsioides ; fruticosum inerrae glabrum, foliis oblongo-obovatis 

 obtusis in petiolum brevem attenuatis, pedicellis aggregatis axillaribus 

 terminalibusque unifloris, floribus nutantibus, calycibus subcampanula- 

 tis'5-dentatis bilobis seu hinc fissis, corolla tubulosa calyce ter longiore, 

 limbo patente quinquedentato dentibus minoribus interjectis, stamini- 

 bus inclusis, bacca ovato-acuminata. 



Lycium fuchsioides. H. B. K. PI. JEquin. 1. p. 147. t. 42. Gen. et Sp. 

 Am. 3. jo. 52. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 701. Roem. et Sch. Syst. 

 Veget. 4. p. 696. Walp. Repert. 3. p. 110. 



Introduced to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, and 

 raised from seeds sent by Dr. Jameson, from Azoques, in 

 the Quitinian Andes, where it is used by the natives for 

 fences. Dried specimens from the same locality are now 

 before us, bearing both flower and fruit at the same time : the 

 fruit occupying the lower part of a branch ; perfect flowers 

 the upper. From these specimens, the fruit has been added. 

 The figure in the " Plantes ^Equinoctiales" from nearly the 



* So called from the original species being a native of Lycia, in Asia Minor. 



