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tuose knotty branches, and only a few inches im height ; it throws 
out a few leaf-bearing branchlets as slender as the petioles, from 
half an inch to an inch in length, each exhibiting about three 
pairs of geminate leaflets, giving them much the appearance of 
being a pinnated leaf: the leaflets are two lines and a quarter 
long, and one line and a half broad, upon a channelled, flattened 
petiole, one line and three quarters in length: the calyx is cleft 
nearly to the base, into five, equal, narrow, subulate segments, 
two lines long: the tube of the corolla is about five lines long, 
one line and a half in diameter, with five short triangular reflexed 
teeth: the stamens arise from the middle of the tube, and are not 
exserted : the ovarium is conico-ovate, seated upon:a thick, fleshy 
ring: the style is somewhat curved at the apex, and thickened 
towards the stigma, which is hollow, with an obsoletely bilobed 
margin. Both the leaves and flowers become quite black in 
drying, a peculiarity noticed upon a former occasion in other 
species of this genus: the bark of the woody branches is greyish, 
finely shagreened with raised dots.* 
LYCIOPLESIUM. 
To this genus, proposed in the Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. 
(Note) p. 220, I have now to add another species. 
6. Lycioplesium fasciculatum, (n. sp.) : spinosum, ramulis sub- 
flexuosis, fere rugosis; foliis alternis, vel in axillas fasciculatis, 
oblongo-spathulatis, glabris, carnosulis, nervis pinnatis immersis, 
basi in petiolum subbrevem spathulatis, apice obtusis; floribus in 
medio spinarum binis, vel ex apice cum foliis plurimis enatis, 
verticillato-fasciculatis, pedunculis calyceque subpubescentibus ; 
corollæ tubo brevi, summo campanulato, extus pubescente, limbo 
profunde 5-partito, lobis expansis, margine albido-floccosis, stami- 
nibus styloque exsertis.— Bolivia (Bridges Collect. 1846.) 
This shrub very much resembles in habit the five species for- 
merly described ; the spines are from six to nine lines long, the 
leaves (including a petiole of three lines) are one inch and à 
* For a figure of this species see Illustr, South Amer. Plants, plate 28,C. — À 
