﻿118 • soLANACEiE (Wright) . [Lycium. 



18. L. roridum (Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.xiv. (1854) 15); 

 a densely branched shrub, very spiny, viscid on the younger parts ; 

 branches glaucous, slightly striate, flexuous ; leaves in fascicles of 

 2-10, spathulate-oblong oc ovate, 1-2 lin. Iong,i lin. broad, cuneate 

 at the base, fleshy, with numerous yellowish immersed shining 

 glands on both surfaces, almost glabrous or with very short scabrid 

 hairs; peduncle from the centre of the fascicle of leaves, 1- flowered, 

 1-i lin. long; flowers 5-merous ; calyx tubular; tube f lin. long; 

 lobes as long as the tube, erect in flower, spreading or recurved in 

 fruit, glandular and with very short hairs ; corolla glabrous ; tube 

 funnel-shaped, 2i lin. long; lobes ovate, i lin. long; stamens 

 inserted below the middle of the corolla- tube, all exserted ; filaments 

 unequal, hairy at the base ; berry globose, 2 lin. in diara., pallid, 

 shortly mucronate ; seeds about 8, glaucous-brown, oval, compressed. 

 111. S. Amer. Pi. ii. t. 66, fig. A. 



CoA?T Region : Bedford Div. ; Small-deel country, Burke! 

 Ckntbal Hkgion : Somerset Dir. ; near Bruintjes Hoogte, *' between 

 Lichen Grove and Hollow Station," Burchell, 31101 



Vr. DATURA, Linn. 



Calyx long, tubular, 5-fid or spathaceous, sometimes circum- 

 scissile near the base. Corolla funnel-shaped, enlarged in the throat ; 

 limb plicate ; lobes 5, short, broad, usually acuminate. Stamem 5, 

 inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, included ; filaments fili- 

 form ; anthers long linear, sometmies cohering into a tube, cells 

 parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled, or more or less 

 spurioubly 4-teIled ; style filiform, dilated and 2-lobed at the apex ; 

 ovules numerous. Caj^sule dry or with a somewhat fleshy pericarp, 

 indehiscent or 4-valved, spiny or smooth. Seeds compressed; testa 

 thick ; embryo much curved ; cotyledons semiterete. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, glabrous or sparingly hairy ; leaves large, entire or 

 coarsely toothed ; pedicels solitary ; flowers large, erect or peadulouB. 



DisTRiB. Species about 12, widely dispersed through the temperate and 

 warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



1. D. Stxamonium (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 179) ; a robust erect 

 annual ; stem terete, branched ; leaves ovate, more or less coarsely 

 toothed or lobed, about 9 in. long, 3^ in. wide, acuminate, unequal 

 at the base, flaccid, sHghtly hairy when young ; flowers solitary in 

 the forks of the branches; pedicel short; calyx 1^ in. long, 

 persistent at the base; teeth 5, triangular; corolla 3-4 in. long, 

 plicate in bud, tubular-funnel-shaped, white; lobes 5, spreading o^^ 

 recurved, acuminate ; stamens 5, included ; ovory pyramidal^ 4-lobed; 

 capsule about 2 in. lung, erect, ovoid, thickly clothed with spines ; 

 .seeds about { in. long, reniforra. Thnnh. Prodr. 35, and Fl. Gap. ed. 

 Schult. 188 ; Lunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 540 ; Raro. Gen. S. A/r. 



