132 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



culis, in fasciculis binis, folio sequilongis, calyce pedicello 

 paullo breviori, poculiformi, carnosulo, glabro_, lacinulis 5 

 lineari-acutis, tube sequilongis, patentibus; corolla pallide 

 ochroleuca^ tubo cylindrico, supra medium infundibuliformi, 

 limbi laciuiis 5, rhomboideo-ovatis, tubo 4to brevioribus : 

 staminibus 5, subsequilongis, longe exsertis, filamentis glaber- 

 rimis, medio tubi insertis, bine geniculatis, et in nervis tot- 

 idem pilosis ad imum decurrentibus^ antheris ovatis, profunde 

 cordatis, connectivo apice in mucrone excurrentibus : stylo 

 filiformi, longe exserto, stigmate clavato, sub-2-labiato. — In 

 Nova Mexico. — v. s. in herb. Hook. [Fendler, n. 670). 



This species bears greatly the habit of L. Austrinum, but has 

 a far more pallid aspect : the spines are barely more than 2 inches 

 long ; the nodes are large and prominent, and from each of them 

 arises a fascicle of three to ten leaves, 1^ inch long, ^ inch broad : 

 the pedicels are 3 lines long; the calyx 2^ lines, fleshy, some- 

 what bell-shaped, and divided half-way into five equal, pointed 

 divisions, which are considerably spreading : the tube of the 

 corolla is 8 lines long, is contracted to a diameter of ^ a line in its 

 lower moiety, while the upper half expands gradually to a dia- 

 meter of 3 lines in the mouth : the segments of the border are 

 short, broad, obtuse, somewhat rhomboidal, 2 Imes long and 

 2i lines broad, and as well as the tube are marked with branching 

 nervures ; it is quite glabrous, except in the prominent ribs that 

 extend from the base to the point of insertion of the glabrous 

 filaments in its middle : the stamens reach nearly to the extremity 

 of the segments, one however is a little shorter than the others ; 

 the anthers, of a deep red colour, are cordate at the base, attached 

 along their upper moiety to an intervening connective, which is 

 excurrently and curvedly mucronate at the apex, as in L. orien- 

 tale ; the style is filiform, of a reddish colour, curved above, and 

 extends ^ inch beyond the stamens; the stigma is deeply 2-lobed* . 



** Filamenta pilosa. Sp. 24 ad 35. 



24. Lycium fragosum (n. sp.) ; — fruticosum, ramosum, ramulis 

 cortice fusco rimoso, axillis grosse nodosis, nodis breviter spi- 

 nosis, foliis e nodis fasciculatis, anguste linearibus, margine 

 revoluto subtus quasi 3-costatis, utrinque glanduloso-rugosis ; 

 floribus e fasciculis solitariis, pedunculo capillari folio sequi- 

 longo, calyce scabrido, urceolato, ad medium lacinulis 4 acutis 

 erectis partito, corolla glabra, anguste cylindrica, superne paul- 

 lulo infundibuliformi, calyce 6plo longiori, limbi laciniis 4, 

 brevibus, rotundatis, margine ciliatis, tubo 7mo brevioribus, 



* An outline of this plant with floral analysis is given in the ' lUustr. South 

 Araer. Plants', vol. ii. plate 67 C, 



