﻿Lycium.] solanace^ (Wright). 113 



short and spiny, marked by lines decurrent from the nodes ; leaves 

 solitary or few in lascicles, shortly petioled, ovate, oblong, obovate or 

 almost spathulate, acute or somewhat obtuse, 5 by 2^-1^ lin., thinly 

 membranous ; peduncles solitary or geminate, 4 lin. Jong, elongating 

 in fruit ; calyx 1 lin. long, cup-ahaped ; teeth 5, equal, short, acute, 

 ciliate ; corolla 3-4 lin. long, white ( Wood) ; tube contracted below, 

 subcampanulate above ; lobes 5, 1 lin, long, ovate, glabrous ; stamens 

 inserted about 1 lin. up the corolla-tube, 4 exserted, the 5th much 

 shorter and included ; filaments hirsute towards the base ; style 

 filiform, exserted ; stigma obconical ; berry ovoid or ovoid-oblong, 

 3-3|- lin. long. 1|- lin. in diam., shortly apiculate. Dunal in DG. 

 Prod. xiii. i. 518, incl. vars. angustifolium and latifolium ; Miers in 

 Ann. Sf May. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 16, and III. S. Amer. Pl. ii. t. 



Eastebn Region: Transkci ; near Gekiu (Gcua) River, under ]000 ft., 

 Brege I Tembuland ; Uratata River, under 1000 ft., Brege ! Natal ; 30-60 miles 

 from the sea, at 2000-3500 it, Sutherland! uenr Durban, Wood, 123 1 Cooper, 

 2809 ! 2810 ! Verulnm, Wood, 1129 ! Inaiida, Wood, 910 ! and without precise 

 locality, Qerrard, 376 ! Sanderson ! Grant ! 



6. L. pilifolium (C. H. Wright) ; a much-branched shrub ; 

 branches stout, reddish- purple ; branchlets short, spiny ; leaves 

 fascicled, obovate, 3-4 lin. long, ly-2 lin. wide, obtuse, pubescent; 

 flowers solitary ; calyx 3 lin. long, densely glandular-pubescent 

 outside ; lobes 5, triangfular, obtuse, \ as long as the calyx ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped ; tube 3^ lin. long, hairy inside in the lower part ; 

 lobes 5, oblong, 1^ lin. long, obtuse, entire, glabrous ; stamens 

 inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments hairy 

 below. 



Centeal Region : Sutherland Div. ; between Kuilenberg and Great Reed 

 River, Bnrchell, 1360 ! 



- 7. L. oxyearpum (Dunal in DC. Prod, xiii, i. 518); a shrub ; 

 branches greyish, spiny ; leaves fascicled on the swollen nodes, 

 obovate-oblong, long cuneate at the base, entire, glabrous, rather 

 obtuse ; peduncles solitary, thickened at the apex ; calyx obconic, 

 glabrous, 5-toothed ; corolla funnel-shaped ; stamens inserted at the 

 base of the corolla and reaching to its throat ; style filiform, shortly 

 exserted ; stigma capitate ; berry ovoid-oblong, acute, glabrous. 

 Miers in Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 10, and III. 8. Amer. 

 PI. ii. t. 64, fig. B. 



Vae. (8, parviflorum (Dunal, I.e.); leaves 5-6 lin. long, |-1 lin. wide ; corolla 

 4-5 lin. long. L. afntm, var. parvflorum, E. Meyer in Dreje, Zivei PJianzen. 

 geogr. Documente, 97, 200. 



Vak. 7, angustifolium (Dunal, I.e.); branches more slender and more angular j 

 leaves 5-8 lin. long, ^-^ lin. wide. 



South Africa: without locality ; Vat. y, Dreje. 



Central Region: Var. $, Fraserburg Div.; at the Zak mver, Burchell, 

 1514! 



Westehn REGiofT : Var. fi, Vanrhyndorps Div. j near the Oliphauts River, 

 below 500 ft., Brige! 



yOL. IV. — SECT. II. f 



