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of the shorter plants are more fleshy and spathulate^ 3 or 4 lines 

 long and 1 line broad ; the larger plants have straight branches, 

 with spines | to 1^ inch long, with leaves 5 or 6 lines in length 

 and 2 or 3 lines in breadth ; the peduncles are 1 line long ; the 

 calyx, of the same length, is narrow, tubular, with five short equal 

 ciliate teeth ; the corolla is narrow, slightly funnel-shaped^ a little 

 curved, smooth, 5 lines long, with five nearly orbicular segments, 

 ^ line long, with ciliate margins; the filaments are smooth, in- 

 serted below the middle of the tube, two of them reaching the 

 mouth, two somewhat shorter, with the fifth intermediate*. 



7. Lycium orientale (n. sp.) ; — ramulis griseis, substriatis, vir- 

 gatis, spinosis, spinis longis, gemmifeins ; foliis fasciculatis, 

 aut alternis, lineari-spathulatis, in petiolum gracilem atte- 

 nuatis, glaberrimis^ aut pubescentibus ; floribus solitarils, pe- 



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gine subciliatis^ tubo anguste cylindrico superne pauUo latiore 

 4to brevioribus, staminibus inclusis, 4-5, subsequalibus, fila- 

 mcntis glabris, tubo 4to brevioribus, antberis oblongis, basi 

 cordatis, apice connective excurrente mucronatisj faucem attin- 

 gentibus; stylo elongate, capillari, apice incurve, exserto.— 

 Asia Minor et Arabia. — v. s. in herb. Hook. Smyrna. Arabia 

 Petrsea {E. Boissier) . 



Tbis species is probably common tbrougbout the Levant, but 

 has been confounded with L. Europcmm and L. Bnrbarum, from 

 both of which it is quite distinct. The two specimens above 

 cited differ much in appearance, the Smyrna plant having much 

 larger, linear, subulate, veinless leaves, generally alternate, some- 

 what thinner in texture and quite smooth ; that from Arabia has 

 shorter, spathulate, crisp, fasciculate, pubescent leaves, and some- 

 times tetramerous flowers, but in the form of the calyx, the length 

 of the tube of the corolla, the shape and size of the segments of 

 its border, the very short similar glabrous stamens, with smgu- 

 larly mucronate anthers, the two specimens quite agree. The 

 latter plant has quite the habit and appearance of L. Barbarum, 

 but it differs in the greater length of the tube of the corolla, its 

 shorter and entirely smooth stamens and mucronate anthers. 

 The Smyrna specimen greatly resembles L, Europmim in appear- 

 ance; its leaves are 12 to 15 lines long, 2 Unes broad; the 

 pedicel is 2 lines long, the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 

 5i lines, its segments 1| line. In the Arabian plant the leaves 

 are 3 to 5 lines long, 1 line broad, obtuse, slightly pubescent ; 

 the peduncle is 2 lines long, the narrow tubular calyx often 



This species with analytical details is shown in plate 64 l\ 



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