﻿114 soLANACEj: (Wright). [Lycium, 



8. L. scMzocalyx (C. H. Wright) ; stem much branched ; 

 branches brownish-purple, glaucescent, spine-tipped ; leaves linear or 

 narrowly oblanceolate, up to 7 lin. long and i lin. wide, glabrous, 

 finely rugose when dry; flowers solitary from the centre of the 

 fascicles of leaves ; peduncles slender, 3-4 lin. long ; calyx 3|- lin. 

 long, divided more than halfway into 5 oblong acute minutely ciliate 

 lobes ; corolla funnel-shaped ; tube about as long as the calyx ; lobes 

 l|-2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, spreading, minutely ciliate ; stamens 

 inserted in the corolla-throat, exserted ; filaments hairy at the base, 

 filiform; style a little longer than the stamens; fruit depressed 

 globose, about 2 lin. in diam. 



Centeal Region: Cradock Div. ; hillside at 'Witraoss station, 2400 ft., 

 Qalpin. 30801 Graafif Reiuet Div. ; ia thickets near Graaff Keinet, 2500 ft., 

 B;lm, 741 ! in valleys of the Sneeuwberg Range, 350Oft., Bolus, 2074! 



9. L. tetrandrum (Thunb. Prodr. 37) ; a very much branched 

 shrub, 6-7 ft. high ; branchlets glabrous, spiny ; leaves fascicled, 

 ovate- or oblong-elliptic, obtuse or subacute, acute at the base, 3 lin. 

 long, 1 lin, wide, entire, rather thick, glabrous ; flowers solitary ; 

 peduncle filif<Jrm, thickened at the apex, ^-1 lin. long ; calyx cup- 

 shaped, glabrous, 1 lin. long ; teeth 4, short, triangular ; corolla 

 white, 3-4 lin. long ; tube obconic ; lobes 4, orbicular, reflexed ; 

 stamens 4, inserted halfway up the corolla-tube; filaments hairy at 

 the base, exserted ; ovary subglobose ; style as long as the stamens ; 

 fruit subglobose. Fl. Gap. ed. Schult. 192, and in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ix. 154, t. 15 ; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 516 ; Miers in Ann. 

 ^ Mag. Nat. Hid. xiv. (1854) 19, partly, and III. S. Amer. Fl. t. m, 

 fig. F. L. horridum, Thunb. Prodr. 37, Fl. Gap. ed. Schult. 192, 

 and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 154, 1. 17 ; Dunal, I.e. 516. L. horridum, 

 var. tetrandrum, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. 221-222. L. capense. 

 Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 7. L. sp., Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Documente, 107. 



South Africa ; without locality, Hm-vey I 



Coast Region : Piquetberg Div. ; near the sea near Verloreu Valley, Thunherg ! 

 Malmesbury Div.; Saldanha Bay, Thunherg ! Cape Dir. ; between Lion Moun- 

 tain and the shore near Cape Town, Thunherg ! Mossel Bay Div. ; near Great Brak 

 River, 300 ft., Galpin, 4353 ! Knysna Div. ; PlettenbergBay, Pappe .' Uitenhafte 

 Div. ; Zwartkops River Valley, 50-500 ft., Zeyher, 865 ! 3460, 3461 ! Alexandria 

 Div. ; Bushmans River Station, 1120 ft., 6<dpin, 2978 ! Victoria East Div ; 

 by the Kat River, Baur ! Queenstown Div. j Shiloh, 3000-3503 ft., Baitr, 975! 

 British KafFraria, Cooper, 141 ! 420 ! 



Central Region : Somerset Div. ; near Little Fish River and Great Fish 

 River, 2000-3000 ft., Brege, 7869! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 

 2500 ft.. Bolus, 282! descent of the VoorSneeuw Berg, BurcUell, 2841! 



O. Kuntze notes (Rev. Gen. PI. iii. 221) a variety with peutamerous flowers 

 from Beaufort West, which he calls L. horridum, var. pentandrum. 



10. I. echinatum (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 516); a shrub; 

 branches slender, with ridges decurrent from the nodes, glaucous, 

 epiny towards the apex ; leaves in fascicles oa the swollen nodes, 



