﻿Lycium.'] soLMiACHJE (Wright). Ill 



Eev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 221. L. sp., Br&je, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docu- 

 mente, 50, 63. 



Coast Region: Albany Div.; Grahiimstowu, Butherfurd .' Quceustowu Dlv • 

 banks of Klass Smits Kiver, 3)50 ft., Galpin, 2516! ' ' 



Central Rf.&ion : Prince Albert Uiv, ; between Dwyka Eiver and Zwnrt- 

 bulletje, Drjije, 7866a ! Carnarvon Div. ; at Keikam's Poort, Burchell, 1614 I 

 Aliu al North Div. ; ou the banks of the Orange River, near Aliwal North 

 4300 ft., Drege, 7866b! Kuntze ! Prieska Div.; banks of the Orange River,' 

 Burchell, 1644! HopetowK Div. j near the Orange River, 4500 ft., Miislcttt in 

 Berh, Bolus, 2215 1 



Kalahaei Region : Griqualand West ; north of Kimberley, Nehon, 28 ! 



2. L. campaniilatum (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Documente, 109); a much-branched, glabrous shrub; branches 

 griseo-pruinose ; branchlets horizontally s^jreading, forming spines 

 2-2i in. long; leaves fascicled, obovate- or obloiig-spatliulate, 0-10 

 lin. long, 2|— 4 lin. broad, obtuse, glabrous, rather fleshy ; flowers 

 solitary or geminate; peduncle 4 lin. long; calyx tubular, 3 lin. 

 long, 2i lin. in diam. ; teeth short, ciliate ; corolla-tube campanu- 

 late, narrowed at the base, slightly longer than the calyx ; lobes 5, 

 oblong, nearly as long as the tube, reticulately veined ; stametis 

 inserted near the base of the corolla ; filaments geniculate at the 

 base and there expanded into a linear gland densely tonientose on the 

 margin, 2 reaching to the apex of the corolla-lobes, 3 to their middle ; 

 style equalling the longer stamens; berry globose, 3 lin. in diam. ; 

 seated on the split calyx. L. rigidum, var. latifolium grandiflwum, 

 Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 523. L. ferocissimtim, Miers in Ann. 

 ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 187, and III. S. Amer. PI. t. 70, 



». x». 



Coast Region : Clanwil'iam Div.; between Langc Valley and Ileerelogc- 

 ment, below 500 ft., Drege ! Uitenliage Div.; Zeyher, 105 ! Port Elizabeth Div. j 

 at and near the Lead-mine, Burchell, 4490 ! 



7 3. L. afrum (Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 191) ; a small tree; branches 

 glabrous, rigid, spiny at the apex ; leaves fascicled, linear or narrowly 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, entire, 6-12 lin. long, {-1 lin. wide, glabrou.s ; 

 flowers solitary, rarely geminate ; peduncles short; calyx campauu- 

 late, 2-3 lin. long, glabrous or puberulous on the margin ; lobes 5, 

 short, triangular; corolla 9-10 lin. long, long obconic, con.stricted 

 close to the base, glabrous ; lobes 5, subrotundate, 1-1 } lin. long, 

 reflexed ; stamens subequal, included ; filaments geniculate below, 

 ■with a fascicle of hairs a short distance above their insertion ; ovary 

 globose ; style reaching to the top of the stamens ; berry globose, 

 smooth or lobed, 6 lin. in diam. Lam. Ill t. 112, AV/. 1; l>r»ge, 

 Ztvei Pflanzengeogr. Documenie, 62; Plenck, Ic. t. 127; Jhmal in 

 DC. Prod. xiii. i. 521 ; Miers in Ann. S,- Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. 

 (1854) 16, and HI. 8. Amer. PL ii. t. ^Q, Jig. C; O. Kunfze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI. iii. ii. 221 {var. stenanthum). L. rigidum, Thunb. Prodr. 37, 

 Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 191, and in Tran>'. Linn. Soc. ix. 152, if. 14 ; 

 Hrt.ge, Zwei PJia?izengeogr. Documeuie, 07, 10b, and in LiniucU, xx. 



