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spiny habit it greatly resembles a Lycium or Grabowskya, 
but, on examining thé flowers I, found it to possess all the 
A shrub 12 feet high, very smooth, leaves including the petiole 14 inch, 
7 lines broad; peduncles 7 lines long; calyx urceolately tubular, 2 lines 
long, with 5 short obtuse lobes, having a small mucro at the apex; - 
corolla tubular, purplish violet, 9 lines long, lobes of border short, 
3-angular, erect, with floccose margins; filaments glabrous, arising above 
the base of the tube where it is pubescent; anthers included within the 
mouth; the style is exserted; the berry is globose, orange coloured. 
2. Lycioplesium nitidum, (n. sp.) :—fruticosum, spinosum ; foliis alternis, 
ovato-oblongis, glaberrimis, crassiusculis, supra lucidis, subtus pallide 
glaucis, rarius in venis tomentosis, margine revolutis, apice obtusis et 
minute'retusis, basi cuneatis, in petiolum brevem attenuatis ; floribus 
binis, pedunculis apice incrassatis, corolla rubro-violacea, staminibus 
exsertis.—Columbia, Pulzhum, in valleculis latere occidentali. (Jameson) 
v. s. in Herb. Hooker). : 
The young shoots (about # inch long) from which the leaves and 
flowers : spring, finally become converted into spines ; the peduncle is 7 lines 
long, and thickened ‘at its apex; the calyx is campanular, 2 lines long, 
about the same breadth, and has 5 short rounded teeth with .a small mu- 
eronate acumen; the corolla is smooth, tubular, 10 lines long, with 5 
$mall erect lobes with a mucronulate apex and floccose margins ; the an- 
thers are oblong, 2-lobed, cordate at base, yellowish green, affixed at 
base, the filaments being inserted above the base of the tube of the 
corolla, where it is densely pubescent. 
3. Lycioplesium ovatum, (n. sp.):—fruticosum, ramis sub-flexuosis, spinosis, 
ferrugineo-tomentosis ; foliis glaberrimis, crassiusculis, ovalibus, utrin- 
que rotundatis, margine revolutis, supra lucidis, subtus pallidioribus, 
breviter petiolatis; floribus solitariis, extra-axillaribus ; eorolla glabra, 
. rubro-flavida, tubo latiori, staminibus inedit Nova Granada, (Gou- 
dot.) v, s. in Herb. Hooker. 
This isa shrub 10 or 12 feet high, with leaves 11 lin. long, 7 lin. broad, 
petiole 2 lin. ; corolla smooth both without and within, except at the place 
of the insertion of the filaments somewhat above its base, where it is 
tomentous ; the lobes of the border are oblong, obtuse, mucronulate at the 
apex, and tomentous on the inflected margins ; filaments glabrous, anthers 
?-lobed, oblong, yellowish green, in thé mouth of the tube; berry black. 
4. Lycioplesium | horridum. Lycium horridum, HBK. 3.52. Lycium par- 
Vifolium, Wild, R. and Sch. 14.698;—suffruticosum, spinosissimum ; 
foliis fasciculatis, obovatis, obtusis, crassiusculis, nitidis ; floribus soli- 
tariis, pendulis; corolla violacea, staminibus subinclusis.—Andibus 
Peruviæ circa Caxamarcam. 
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