SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 95 



cosa, limbi laciniis parvulis, tuhi dimidio longitudine, vel adkuc 

 scepius brevioribus. 



A. Gerontoge^. 



* Filamenta lavia. Sp. 1 ad 8. 



1. Lycium scevum (n. sp.) ; — -fruticosum, valide spinosum, spinis 

 pahilis, fuscis, nudis, folio brevioribus, aut foliiferis et tunc 

 longioribus; foliis crebre fasciculatis, spathulato-oblongis, 

 apice rotundatis, a medio in pctiolum angustatis, pallidis, cras- 

 siusculis, eveniisj utrinque obsolete puberulis; floribus e fasei- 

 culis solitariis aut binis, pedunculatis, calyce brevi, tubuloso, 

 submembranaceo, subsequalitcr 5-dentato, dentibus pubescen- 

 tibus, corolla subcylindrica, tubo supernc paullo ampliato, 

 utrinque glaberrimo, limbi laciniis 5, rotundato-ovatis, mar- 

 gine subciliatis, staminibus 5 inclusis, 2 faucem attingentibus, 

 reliquis multo brevioribus, filamentis omnino glabris, paullo 

 infra medium tubi insertis ; stylo filiformi, tubo sequilongo. 

 Arabia, — {v. s. in herb. Hook. " ad Cisterms Geddse/' Fischer, 

 no. 98.) 



This plant appears to be identical with that described by 

 M. Dunalin DC, Prodr, xiii. 524. as " L. Mediterraneum, sectio 

 hngijlorum, an species diversa ? var. B. cinereum/' and found in 

 the same place by Schimper. Its leaves are 6 to 9 lines long, 

 l^ oy2, rarely 3 lines broad ; the peduncle is 1| line, and the 

 calyx barely 1 line long; the tube of the corolla 5 hues in 

 length, 1| line diameter ; segments 1^ line long, 1 line broad, 

 the margins being slightly ciliated, while all the rest of the 

 corolla is smooth : the stamens are perfectly glabrous, as well 

 as the tube beneath their insertion, one of the stamens bemg 

 only two-thirds the length of the two that reach the mouth of 

 the tube*. 



2. Lycium Europtmm, Linn. Syst. i. 228; Mant. 97 ; Sibthorp, 

 Fl. GrEec. i. 155. tab. 236. L. salicifolium. Mill Did. no. 3. 

 tab. 171. fig. 2. L. Mediterraneum (§ breviflorum), Dun. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 524, cum aliis variis synonymis et citatio- 

 nibus auctorum j— ramulis erectis, subteretibus, glabris, vel 

 albido-pruinosis, spinosis, junioribus angulatis, albescentibus, 

 et glanduloso-pilosulis, spinis nudis, vel longioribus et gem- 

 miferis, gemmis sape tuberculatis j foliis fasciculatis, spa- 

 thulato-oblongis, apice acutis vel obtusiusculis, imo m petio- 

 lum elongatulum cuneatis, subglabris vel sub lente parce glan- 

 duloso-pilosis ; floribus e fasciculis solitariis vel bmis, pedun- 

 culo longiusculo, calyce subpoculiformi, membranaceo, pri- 

 mum jequaliter 5-dentato, demum sub-bilabiato, dentibus 



* A drawing with analytical details of this species is given in plate 64 A. 



