Tab. 5373. 

 LYCIOPLESIUM pubiflorum. 



Downy-flowered Lycioplesium . 



Nat. Orel. Solanace^e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Lycioplesium, Miers. Calyx ovato-campanulatus, 5-dentatus, 

 persistens. Corolla tubulosa, tubo 5-partito, sestivatione lobis acutis valvato- 

 plicatis, margine tomentosis. Stamina 5, corolla? longitudine ultra basin inserta, 

 siibm&qunlia, Jilamentis insertione villosis, vel omnino glabris ; antheris oblongis, 

 bilobis, basi cordatis, longitudine dehiscentibiis. Ovarium obovatum, biloculare, 

 placentis e dissepimento formatis, multiovulatis. Stylus simplex. Stigma 

 bilobo-capitatum. Semina nuraerosa, parva, compressa, renifortnia, albuminosa. 

 Embryo cylindricus, annularis. Miers, in Illustr. S. Am. Bot. p. 10, in note. 



Lycioplesium pubiflorum; spinosum, ramis rugoso-striatis asperiusculis, foliis 

 juxta axillara spinas fasciculatis ellipticis acutis in petiolum brevem latius- 

 culuin alternatis nitidis margine pubescentibus spinam vix asquantibus, 

 pedunculis solitariis v. in apice rami congestis e ramulo abbreviato oriundis 

 patentibus calycem subsequantibus calyceque et corolla extus pube ferru- 

 ginea densa et brevi tomentosis, corollae (1" longae, 4-5'" lata?), tubocampa- 

 nulato calycem quinquefidum patulum intus glabrum limbumque 5-partitum 

 subinaequalem quadruplo superante, lobis rotundato-acutiusculis intus glabris 

 cum plicis minutis alternantibus, staminibus basi pilosis styloque exsertis. 

 Griseb. 



Lycioplesium pubiflorum. Griseb. Syst. Bemerk. Pjtanzensam. Philippt's und 

 Lechler's in Siidl. Chili, etc. (1854),^?. 40. 



Latua venenata. Philippi, in Bot. Zeit. Aug. 1858. p. 24. 



An extremely handsome Solanaceous plant, lately received by 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons from South Chili, Valdivia, from their 

 collector, Mr. Richard Pearce,* with the name Latua venenuta. 

 This is a name we find published and the plant fully described 

 by Dr. A. Philippi, of St. Jago de Chili, in the ' Botanische 

 Zeitung ' for August 13th, 1858; but it was previously pub- 



* We gladly correct an unintentional omission under Tab. 5343 (Berberidopsis 

 coruUina), where we mentioned Mr. Pearce as the discoverer of that most charm- 

 ing new shrub. We should have added that Mr. Pearce is the South American 

 collector for Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and from the latter were received the 

 specimens figured. We may here state that the Berberidopsis has borne the 

 winter unharmed, without any shelter, .and not a leaf been injured. 



APRIL 1st, 1803. 



