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of an inch in length, the stem being 4-angular and pu- 
bescent. 
var. y. pubescens.—caule 4-gono ; foliis fere ovalibus, rotun- 
datis, utrinque valde pubescentibus, petiolo gracili.—Pampas, 
San Luiz usque Rio Quinto.—This presents a very different 
appearance to the last variety; the leaves being about the 
Same size, but the petiole is much longer and more slender. 
6. Salpichroa ciliata. Lycium ciliatum, Schl. Linn. 7, 70:— 
suffruticosa, subscandens, ramis elongatis, flexuosis, ramu- 
lis interdum subspinescentibus; foliis sparsis, inæquila- 
teris, rotundato-ovatis, interdum subcordatis, in petiolum 
attenuatis, apice brevissime acuminatis, utrinque glabris, 
margine denticulato-ciliatis ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, 
brevissime pedunculatis, cernuis, calycis laciniis linearibus, 
acutis; corolla puberula, infundibuliformi, genitalibus ex- 
sertis.—Rio Negro, Banda Oriental (Sellow). 
From Professor Schlechtendahl’s description, it is evident 
that this plant has a close affinity to the foregoing. The 
leaves are 14 inch long, 16 to 18 lines broad ; the peduncle is 
14 to 2 lines long, erect, and curving downward ; the calyx 
is deeply cleft into 5 linear segments, is covered with short 
‘glandular pubescence, and the margins are ciliated with glan- 
dular hairs. The corolla, somewhat longer than the calyx, 
is downy externally with glandular hairs, (articulate ?), funnel- 
shaped, the segments of the border are triangular, rather 
obtuse, reflexed, with glandular ciliate margins; the stamens 
and style are far exserted, the filaments being inserted above 
the base of the corolla, where the tube is contracted, and 
closed internally by a ring of dense villous hairs. The 
is red, globose, and shorter than the persistent calyx, 
Which increases in size to the length of 5 lines. The seeds 
are numerous, whitish, compressed, subreniform, but were 
not ripe when seen. 
DUNALIA. 
. Among the plants sent from Peru by Mathews is one 
marked Lycium obovatum, but it is clearly not the one 
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