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nate leaves, 3 to 6 lines in length, 1 to 3 lines broad, and with- 

 out flowers ; a third, and more fragmentary portion, has a single 

 spine^ 2| inches long, bearing three small bare spines, each 3 

 lines in length, and a single spineless nodose axil, producing five 

 fasciculated leaves, about an inch long, and 3 lines broad, with 

 four flowers, the peduncles of which are 4 lines in length : in all 

 of these the corolla had fallen off, leaving the ovary encircled by 

 its induvial cup and the persistent calyx. 



3. Lycium Indicwniy R. Wight, Icon. tab. 1403; — glaberrimum, 

 ramis flexuosis, ramulis divaricatis, apice spinescentibus, vel 

 abbreviatis, spinosis, spinis inferioribus nudis ; foliis e gemmis 

 fasciculatis, vel alternis, spathulato-oblongis, imo anguste 

 cuneatis, sessilibus; floribus (in specimine) subsolitariis (in 

 icon. cit. fasciculatis), calyce pedicello subsequilongo, tubuloso, 

 5-costato, dentibus cum costis continuis, sinubus rotundatis 

 demum insequaliter fissis : corolla (sicca) pallide flava, infundi- 

 buliformi, tubo calyce 4-plo longiore, glabro, limbi laciniis 

 rotundis, ciliatis, tubo 4to brevioribus : staminibus glabris, 

 valde insequalibus, pauUo supra basin tubi insertis, quorum 

 2 inclusis, 3 subexsertis ; stylo exserto : bacca globosa, pisi 

 magnitudine, apiculata, seminibus paucis. — ^Penins. Indise 

 Orientalis, — v, s, in herb. Hook. Guzzerat et Scinde [Stocks, 

 n. 113; Dr. Thomson^ n. 57). 



In this very distinct species the leaves vary considerably in 

 form ; Dr. Wight received his specimens from Dr. Stocks, and 

 from the notes accompanying it, this distinguished botanist was 

 led to infer that it might be only a variety of L. Europteum : in 

 those notes Dr. Stocks talks of its bearded stamens, evidently 

 confounding his own specimens with another species growing in 

 Seind3. In Dr. Thomson's plant the leaves are fasciculated, 

 obov.te-lanceolate, 4 to 6 lines long, 1 to U line broad; the 

 pedi,ncle is 1 line long; the calyx, l^ line in length, is tubular, 

 wit), long obtuse teeth; the corolla is contracted below, its tube 

 being smooth and 4 hues long, its border having five rounded 

 cihated segments ] line in diameter ; the membranaceous fila- 

 ments are quite smooth and included, two of them measuring 

 2 lines, the othet three 3 lines ; the style is 4 lines in length ; 

 the ovary, supported by a closely adnate gland, is sm-rounded at 

 its base by the induvial cup of the corolla. The specimens from 

 Guzzerat have leaves 12 lines in length and 4 lines in breadth ; 

 those from Scinde are obovate or oblong, 8 hnes long, 3 to 4 

 lines broad : the pedicels, one or two in each axil, are 2 lines in 

 length 



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