﻿116 soLANACEiE (Wriglit). [Lycium. 



13. I. pendalinum (Miers in Ann. <fe Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 

 20) ; a shrub ; branches slender, pendulous, the older knotted, bare 

 and ending in spines, the younger leafy ; leaves fascicled on the 

 bony cup-shaped nodes, linear, acute, 4-5 lin. long, i lin. broad, 

 attenuate at the base, glabrous ; peduncle slender, 3 lin. Ion? ; 

 flowers 5-merous ; calyx I^ lin. long, tubular, shortly and subequally 

 toothed; corolla funnel-shaped; tube 3 lin, long, contracted and 

 pilose outside at the base ; lobes oblong, veined, ^ the length of the 

 tube ; stamens inserted above the corolla-base, 1 exserted, 2 reaching 

 the throat, 2 included ; filaments hairy a short distance above the 

 base, glabrous elsewhere ; style filiform, exserted. III. S. Amer. 

 Pl.n.t.e7,fig.B, 



South Afeica: without locality or collector's name. 



Eastern Eegion : Natal ; Mooi River Valley, 200O-3000 ft., Sutherland ! 

 and without precise locality, Qerrard,, 1416 ! 



14. L. tenue (Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 245) ; a very much- 

 branched shrub ; branches flexuose, divaricate, with ridges decurrent 

 from the nodes, dark grey ; branchlets spiny, slender ; leaves linear 

 or very narrowly oblanceolate, tapering towards both ends, 4 lin. 

 long, i-i lin, broad, rather fleshy ; flowers solitary ; calyx tubular, 

 li lin. long ; teeth 5, subequal, ciliate, obtuse ; corolla funnel- 

 shaped ; tube 3 lin. long ; lobes 5, erect, ovate, obtuse, siliooth ; 

 stamens inserted jast below the middle of the corolla-tube, 2 much 

 exserted, 1 reaching the throat, 2 included ; filaments with a globose 

 bunch of hairs just above their insertion ; ovary conical, surrounded 

 at the base by an annular toothed disk ; berry ovoid-elliptic, 

 apiculate. JDunal in BC. Prod. xiii. i. 515 ; Drege, Zwei Pflanzen- 

 geogr. Bocumente, 145 ; Miers in Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 

 19, and lU. S. Amer. PL t. 67, fig. A.; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. nl 

 222. 



Vae. /8, Sieb«ri (Dunal, I.e.) ; leaves sborter and wider, obovate-elliptic, 

 tapering into a very short petiole. Baker, Fl. Maurit. 216. 



South Africa: without locality, SehUehtendal, Boivin, .and Verreatix (ex 

 Dunal) . 



Coast Region: Var. /3 : Uitenhage Div. ; in clayey soil, Erauss (ex 

 Bunal). 



Centbal Region : Graaff Reinet Div. j near Graaff Reinet. 2600 ft.. Bolus, 

 776! 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West ; Modder River Station, Euntee. 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; between Gekan River and Bashee River, 1000- 

 2000 ft., Dr^ge ! 



The variety also occurs in Mauritius, 



-^ 15. L. cineremn (Thunb. Prodr. 37) ; a shrub 3 ft. or more high ; 

 stem erect, rigid, glabrous, ashy-white ; branches patent, terete, 

 spiny ; leaves fascicled, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glaucous, 2-4 lin. 

 long, i-1 lin. wide; flowers solitary; peduncles filiform, 1-1^ li"- 

 long; calyx cupular, glabrous, shortly 5-toothed, 1|- lin. long; 

 corolla obconic ; tube 2^ lin. long ; lobes 5, short, ovate, acute ; 



