340 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



of the province of Buenos Ayres, towards the Rio Colorado and 

 Bahia Blanca — a country always denominated by him "Pata- 

 gonia." It is wholly covered with a dense yellowish pubescence ; 

 the leaves are about \\ line long, \ line broad, the peduncle 

 1 line long, the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 1| line, the 

 segments of the border a trifle longer ; the berry is L^ line in 

 diameter, enclosed by the embracing lobes of the calyx*. 



64. Lycium Patagonicum (n. sp.); — subinerme, subglabrum, ra- 

 mosum, ramulis glabris, angulato-costatis, costis helvolis e 

 cupula conspicua axillari utrinque decurrentibus ; foliis al- 

 ternis, rarius fasciculatis, parvis et ovatis, aut longiusculis et 

 spathulato-linearibus, carnosulis, margine incrassatis, inter- 

 dum glabriusculis et glanduloso-punctulatis, vel sparse pubes- 

 centibus, pilis brevissimis rigidis articulatis aut brachiatis, 

 brevissime petiolatis ; floribus solitariis, calyce 5-dentato, pe- 

 dunculoque pubescente ; corollse tubo infundibuliformi, calyce 

 fere duplo longiore, inferne e medio cylindrico, et hinc annulo 

 carnoso crebre piloso extus donato, limbi laciniis 5, oblongis, 

 margine ciliatis, tubo sublongioribus ; staminibus in contrac- 

 tionem tubi insertis, filamentis imo geniculatis, et hinc glan- 

 dula lineari plana glabra margine fimbriata signatis, subsequa- 

 libus, exsertis ; bacca ovata, coccinea, calyce suffulta. — Pata- 

 gonia. — V. s. in herb. Hook. (St. Elena) Capt. King. 



A plant much resembling in appearance L. infaustum, but de- 

 cidedly different in its floral structure. The leaves are from 2 to 

 5 lines long, 1 line broad ; the pedicel is %\ lines, the calyx 3 

 lines, and the corolla SJ lines in length ; the tube of the latter 

 has five small tufts of hair alternating with the ciliated glands of 

 the filaments ; the berry is 2| lines long and 2 lines broad f. 



65. Lycium scoparium (n. sp.) ; — inerme, divaricato- et virgato- 

 ramosum, pilis brevissimis rigidis articulatis et brachiatis ubi- 

 que hirtulum ; ramulis angulato-costatis, glauco-roridis, axillis 

 approximatis, cupulari-nodosis ; foliis fasciculatis, anguste vel 

 latiore linearibus, utrinque pubescentibus, in petiolum brevis- 

 simum attenuatis ; floribus solitariis, breviter pedunculatis, 

 calyce hirsuto, dentibus 5, lineari-acutis, tubo duplo longi- 

 oribus, sinubus rotundatis, corollse extus pubescentis laciniis 5, 

 oblongis, patentibus, tubo infundibuliformi paullo longioribus, 

 staminibus exsertis corollse sequilongis, stylo istis longiore, 

 bacca globosa, coccinea. — In Provinciis Mendozse et S. Ludo- 

 vicse Argentinorum . — v. v. 



* A representation of this plant with analysis of its flower is shown 

 {loc. cit.) in plate 72 E. 



t This species with floral section is given {loc. cit.) in plate 72 F. 



