﻿Lycium.] solanace^ (Wright). 115 



sessile, oblong-linear, straight or slightly curved, l-l^ lin. long, 

 scarcely ^ lin. broad, quite entire, rather thick ; peduncles solitary, 

 glabrous, short, 1 -flowered; calyx deeply cup-shaped, 1 lin. long ; 

 teeth 4, erect ; corolla funnel-shaped, contracted near the base, 3 lin. 

 long ; lobes 4, -} the length of the tube, orbicular, ciliate ; stamens 

 4, inserted i-way up the corolla-tube, 2 exserted, 2 reaching the 

 corolla-throat ; filaments hairy a short distance above their insertion, 

 glabrous elsewhere ; ovary ovoid, surrounded at the base by an 

 annular disk ; style capillary, 2 lin. long ; stigma capitate. Miers, 

 III. S. Anw. PI. ii. t. 66, fig. E, and in Ann. 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 xiv. (1854) 18. L. sp., Drege, Zwei PJlanzengeogr. Bocumente, SB. 



Oektbal Region: Aberdeen Div, j Camdeboo, 2ODO-30OD ft., Dreflre, 7870! 



11. L. arenicolum (Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 

 14) ; a much-branched shrub, 9 ft. high ; branches glaucous, purplish, 

 with decurrent ridges from the cupular nodes; leaves sessile iu 

 fascicles of 5-10, linear, 5-7 lin. long, | lin. broad, acute, ratlier 

 fleshy ; flowers solitary on very short peduncles, 4-merou3 ; calyx 

 1 lin. long, shortly and unequally 4-toothed ; teeth ciliate ; corolla 

 about 2\ lin. long, tubular ; lobes 4, oblong, ciliate, ^ lin. long ; 

 stamens unequal, inserted a httle above the corolla-base, 1 slightly 

 exserted, 2 reaching the throat, the 4th included ; filaments hirsute 

 at the base; ovary ovoid, adnate to the red fleshy disk; style 

 exserted; stigma capitate. III. S. Amer. PL ii. t. 65, fig. E. 



Var. brevifolia (C. H. Wright) ; leaves oblanceokte, 3 liu. long, f lin. broad ; 

 flowers as in the type. 



SoTTTH AjRrcA : without locality, Zeyher, 1261 ! . 



Coast Region : Mossel Bay Div. j dry channel of an arm of the Gnuntz 

 River, Bwrc?ie?Z, 6184 r _ , „. 



Centrai. Region : Var. j8, Somerset Div. ; banks of the Little Pish River, 

 300Uft., MacOvoan, 1873 ! Scott-Elliot, 5381 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony 3 Orange River .it Sand Unit, 

 Burle ! 



12. L. oxycladum (Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 

 15); a much-branched shrub, quite glabrous; branches patent; 

 branchlets with ridges decurrent from the nodes, spiny at the apex ; 

 leaves in fascicles of 4-7, spathulate-linear, 3-4 lin. long, \ lin. 

 broad, rather fleshy; peduncles \\ lin. long, 1 -flowered ; flowers 

 5-merous ; calyx cup-shaped, 1 lin. long ; tet,th 5, very short, acute, 

 slightly ciliate; coiolla-tube funnel-shaped, 3-4 Im. long, pilose 

 outside near the persistent base ; lobe^ 5, orbicular, I lin. long, 

 shortly ciliate ; stamens inserted a short distance above the corolla- 

 base, hirsute a short distance above the base, 2 exserted, 2 reaching 

 the corolla-throat, the 5th included. IU. S. Amer. PL 11. t. Oy, 



fig.F. 



South Africa : without lo&dity, Zeyher, 1260 1 „ ,, , , 



Coast KEr,ioN: Uitenbage Div., Zej/Z-er, 81 ! Bedford Div.; Suiall-dLOl 

 couutrv, Burke .' 



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