Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 337 



corollfe tubo calyce 3-plo longiore, infra medium coarctato, 

 cylindrico, imo incrassato annulo barbato cincto, fauce am- 

 pliato^ limbi laciniis 5-6, oblongis, tubo sub-brevioribus, mar- 

 gine ciliatis, staminibus 5-6, in coarctationem insertis, fila- 

 mentis imo geniculatis, glandula elongata margine dense bar- 

 bata donatis, superne Isevibus, subsequalibus, exsertis ; stylo 

 staminibus excedente. — Prov. "Buenos Ayres" Argentinorum. 

 — V. s. in Herb. Hooker. (Bahia Blanca) Darwin, no. 509. 

 (Pampas, ad Monte de Loro) Gillies. 



This is evidently a shrub with long slender branches, much 

 resembling i>. vimineum in habit, but distinguished by a different 

 floral structure : the leaves are 4 to 9 lines long ; in Dr. Gillies* 

 specimen they are not more than ^ line broad, in Mr. Darwin^s 

 they are J to | line broad : the very slender pedicels are 1-^ line 

 long; the calyx is narrow, somewhat pubescent, and 1 line in 

 length; the tube of the corolla is 1^ line, the border 1 line 

 long ; the stamens reach the length of the segments of the 

 border *. 



Var. fi. minutifolium ; — ramulis multo gracilioribus, foliis bre- 

 vioribus, fasciculatis aut alternis, glaberrimis ; calycis dentibus 

 ciliatis ; corolla pentamera ; bacca parvula, globosa, coccinea, 

 calyce immutato suffulta. — Patagonia [Tweedie). 



The branchlets here are almost filiform, the leaves 2 to 2^ lines 

 long, \ line broad, the peduncle is 1^ line, the calyx of similar 

 length, the corolla 3 lines long, and the berry 2 lines in 

 diameter. 



61. Lycium salsum, R. & P. Fl. Per. ii. 46. tab. 183 a ; Dunal in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 519. L. gracile, Meyent Nov. Act. Ac. Cces, 

 Leop. xix. Sup. i. 389 ; — biorgyale, subscandens, omnino gla- 

 berrimum, ramulis gracillime virgatis, angulato-costatis, spinis 

 acicularibus ssepe munitis : foliis subfasciculatis, spathulato- 

 linearibus, glaberrimis : floribus solitariis pendulis, pedunculo 

 capillari folio longiore, calyce parvo, poculiformi, 5-costato, 

 insequaliter 5-dentato, dentibus apice ciliatis ; corollse albo- 

 purpurese tubo brevi calyce longiore, extus glabro, infra me- 

 dium coarctato, fauce ampliato, limbi laciniis tubo sublongio- 

 ribus, oblongis, margine ciliatis ; staminibus 5 sequalibus, longe 

 exsertis, filamentis in coarctationem tubi sistentibus, circa 

 basin geniculatam fascicula densa oblonga pilorum donatis, 

 istis cum fasciculis totidem tubo adnatis alternantibus. — In 

 Peruvise litoribus. — v. s. in herb. Hook. Lurin et Pachacamac 

 {Mathews, no. 450). 



* This species with floral analysis is shown in the * Illustr. South Amer. 

 Plants/ vol. ii. plate 72 B. 



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