﻿Lycium.] soLANACEJi (Wright). 117 



stamens included, inserted about 1 lin. up the corolla-tube; filaments 

 hairy at the base ; ovary conical. Fl. Cap. ed. SchuU. 192, and 

 %n Trans, Linn. Soc. ix. 152, i. 16; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 

 516; Miers in Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 20. L. apicu- 

 latum, Dunal, I.e. 517, incl. vars. brevi/oUum and longifolium. L. 

 tetrandmm, Miers, I.e. 19, not of Thunb. Acokanthera lyeioides, O. 

 Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 485. Cestrum lyeioides, Lichtenst. ex Boem. Sf 

 Schultes, Syst. iv. 558, not of Smdtn. 



South Africa t without locality, Thunherg '. Drdge, 7868 ! Zeyher, 1259 I 

 BowTcer ! - ^ 



Coast Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; near Ebenezer, Drege, 7872 ! 

 Ckntbal Region: Murraj'sburg Div.; near Murraysburg, 4000-4700 ft.. 



Tyson, 3-101 



A plant collected in Great Namaqualand by Schinz, 475, may belong to this 



species. 



16. L. Kraussii (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 517) ; a shrub ; 

 branches rather flexuose ; branchlets numerous, terminating in a 

 spine ; leaves very narrowly linear, obtuse, attenuate at the base, 

 4-6 lin. long, 1^-ly lin. wide, puberulous when young; petiole 

 short ; flowers solitary, axillary towards the apex of the branches ; 

 peduncles cernuous, shorter than the calyx, thickened at the apex, 

 slightly puberulous ; calyx cjathiform, 2-2^ lin. long ; teeth 5, 

 small, ovate-oblong, unequal, very acute, slightly puberulous outside ; 

 corolla obconic, glabrous ; tube slightly expanded above ; lobes 5, 

 reflexed, ovate-triangular, rather acute, l^If Hn. long, reticulately 

 veined ; stamens exserted ; filaments villous at the base ; ovary 

 ovoid, apiculate, surrounded at the base by a cupular disk ; style 

 capillary, 3|^-3| lin. long, slightly curved at the apex ; stigma 

 capitate, subbifid ; berry black when dry, ovoid, 2-3 lin. in diam., 

 seated on the enlarged split calyx. Miers in Ann, 4r Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. xiv. (1854) 186. L. einereum, Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap. und 

 Natal. 124, not of Thunh. 



Coast Region : Uitenhage Div. ; without precise locality, Krauns, 1509. 



17. L. Prunus-spinosa (Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 515); 

 branches quite glabrous, brown with a greyish sheen ; branchlets 

 long, scattered, divaricate, spiny and nodulose at the apex ; leaves 

 fasciculate, unequal, oblong-cuneate, obtuse, sessile, entire, fleshy, up 

 to 3 lin. long, i lin. wide ; peduncles solitary, l-flowcred, arising 

 from the centre of the fascicle of leaves, filiform, thickened upwards, 

 6 lin. long; calyx cup-shaped, 2 lin. long, If lin. in diam.; teeth 

 5, triangular, rather acute, puberulous on the margins; corolla 

 shortly campanulate-funnel-shaped, 5-fid, 3 lin. long; lobes ovate, 

 acute, " 3-3i lin. wide," somewhat erect; stamens exserted; fila- 

 ments capillary, adhering to the lowest i of the corolla-tube, base of 

 free part villous ; style abnut as long as the stamens. Miers in Ann. 

 ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 187. 

 South Afhica : without locality, Dreje, 7871 (ex Dunal). 



