Tas. 8440. 
LYCIUM patuipum. 
. ge . 
Southern United States and Northern Mexico. 
SoLANACEAE. Tribe ATROPEAE. 
Lycium, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 900. 
Lycium pallidum, Miers in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. xiv. p. 181 
(1854); species L. curolinianum, Walt., simulans, corollie tubo longiori 
filamentisque glabris recedit.—Méers, Ji]. S$, Amer. Pl. vol. ii. p. 108, t. 67, 
fig. C; Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. p.154; A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. 
vol. vi. p. 45, et in Syn, Fl. N. Amer. vol. ii. pars i. p. 238; Gard, & For. 
1888, p. 341, fig. 54; Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. 1906, p. 38; Gard. Chron. 
1909, vol. xlvi. p. 282, cum ic. 
Frutex ramosus; ramuli tortuosi, brunnei, dense foliosi, spinis rectis instructi. 
Folia ad nodos incrassatos fasciculata, oblanceolata, obtusa, in petiolum 
brevem contracta, usque ad 3 cm. longa, 8 mm. lata, glauca, subcarnosa, 
venis obscuris. Fores solitares vel geminati; pedicelli 4 mm. longi, glabri. 
Calyx pedicello paullo brevior, poculiformis, carnosus, glaber ; lobi 5, tubo 
aequilongi, obtusi vel subacuti. Corolla pallidissime lutea vel fere alba, 
basi carneo-tincta, 2 cm. longa; tubus infra cylindricus, superne infundi- 
buliformis; lobi 5, rhomboideo-ovati, obtusi, 5 mm. longi. Stamina 5, 
subaequilonga, exserta; filamenta paullo supra medium tubi corollae inserta, 
pars libera glaberrima, pars adnata pilosa; antherae ovatae, cordatae. 
Stylus filiformis, longe exsertus; stigma clavatum, leviter bilobum. acca 
globosa, 7 mm. diametro, coccinea.—L. Schaffneri, A. Gray ex Hemsl. in 
Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. vol. ii, p. 426.—C. H. Wriext. 
The Lycium which forms the subject of our illustration 
is the most distinct and, as a flowering shrub, the most 
effective species of the genus in cultivation. It was first 
discovered by Fremont in 1844 on the Rio Virgen, one of 
the tributaries of the Colorado River, where it forms a small 
bush 2-3 feet in height. There are, as Dr. Asa Gray has 
pointed out, two distinguishable forms of L. pallidum 3 one 
of these, which is the form figured by Miers, was collected 
by Fendler in New Mexico, and has the corolla-tube quite 
glabrous inside; the other, from Colorado, which is that 
now figured, while agreeing with the New Mexican form in 
all other respects, has the corolla-tube hairy inside below 
the insertion of the stamens. his form, which has been in 
cultivation in the open at Kew since 1886, blossoms freely 
every year from the end cf May until mid-June, its slender 
spreading branches being gracefully wreathed from base to 
tip with pendent, pale-greenish, purple-tinged flowers. But 
June, 1912, 
