Mr. J. Miers on the geniLs Lycium. 13 



dosis, breviter spinosis ; foliis spathulato-obovatis vel oblongis, 

 in nodis glomerosis fasciculatis ; floribus solitariis, calyce par- 

 vulo, tubuloso, subsequaliter 5-dentato, margine ciliato ; corolla 

 violacea, glabra, longe et anguste tubulosa, superDe paullo 

 ampliata, limbi laciniis 5, ovatis, margine subciliatis, tubo 

 sexto brevioribus, staminibus 5, medio insertis_, glabris, 2 bre- 

 vissimis, 2 fauce vix exsertis, 1 intermedio incluso ; stylo tenui, 

 stigmate exserto. — Arabia. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (Aden, in 

 maritimis, Dr. Hooker) ; (idem, Dr. T. Thomson). 



Near L. orient ale j but much more gnarled and stunted in its 

 growth ; its corolla more slender, its stamens very unequal in 

 length, and its anthers not furnished with the same long mucro- 

 nate point. Its branches are somewhat flexuose, with rather 

 close internodes, and a spine grows out of each salient node : the 

 leaves are 3 to 9 lines long, - to 2 lines broad ; the peduncle is 

 2 lines, the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 5 lines, its seg- 

 ments J to 1 line long : the shorter stamens are 1 line, the inter- 

 mediate 2 lines, the longer ones 2^ lines in length : the flowers 

 are " blue purple*." 



** Filamenta basi hirsuta. Sp. 9 ad 14. 



9. Lycium Austrinum (n. sp.) ; (an L. oxycarpum, var. oL.gr audi- 

 florum, Dun. in DC. xiii. 518 ?) — ramosum, inerme, vel rarius 

 breviter spinosum; ramulis tortuosis, subnitidis, grosse no- 

 dosis, nodis approxiraatis, creberrioie foliosis ; foliis 5-20 e 

 nodis fasciculatis, glaberrimis, longe lanceolatis, obtusis, vel 

 acutiusculis, in petiolum tenuem spathulatis ; floribus e fasci- 

 culis 2-5, pedunculis folio brevioribus, calyceque tubuloso 

 4-5-dentato 3plo longioribus; corolla majuscula, tubulosa, 

 subincurva, imo crassa, coarctata, glabra, intus paullo infra 

 insertionem staminum pubescente, limbi laciniis 5 rotundatis, 

 nervosis, glabris, tubo 6-8vo brevioribus, staminibus valde 

 insequalibus, filamentis e quarta parte tubi orientibus, imo 

 geniculatis et glabris, mox longiuscule hirsutis, dein glabris, 

 filiformibus, 2 longioribus longe exsertis, 2 intermediis faucem 

 attingentibus, 1 multo breviori inserto ; stylo filiformi, apice 

 crassiusculo, incurvo, exserto. — In Africa Australi. — v. s. in 

 herb. Hook. Gamka River {Burke). 



A plant w^ith large conspicuous flowers like those of L. Afrum, 

 but narrower and paler ; the leaves are much larger and more 

 crowded; it differs moreover, essentially, in the structure of the 

 flowers. The leaves are comparatively thin in texture, veinless, 

 nearly an inch long, including the slender petiole, and 1|^ to 2 



* This species with analytical details is delineated {loc. cit.) in plate 65 B. 



