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1^ line long, the tube of the corolla 4^ lines, the segments 1 line^ 

 and the filaments are barely a line in length^. 



8. Lycium Persicum (n. sp.) ; — glaberrimum, ramulis valde no- 

 dosisj breviter spinosis ; foliis spathulato-obovatis vel oblongis^ 

 in nodis glomerosis fasciculatis ; floribus solitariis, calyee par- 

 vulo, tubuloso, subaequaliter 5-dentato^ margine ciliato; corolla 

 violacea, glabra, longe et anguste tubulosa, superne paullo 

 ampliata, limbi laciniis 5, ovatis, margine subciliatis, tubo 

 sexto brevioribus, staminibus 5, medio insertis, glabris, 2 bre- 

 vissimis, 2 fauce vix exsertis^ 1 intermedio inclnso ; stylo tenui^ 

 stigmate exserto. — Arabia. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (Aden, in 

 maritimis, Dr. Hooker) ; (idem, Dr. T. Thomson), 



Near L, orientale^ but much more gnarled and stunted in its 

 growth j its corolla more slender, its stamens very unequal in 

 lengthy and its anthers not furnished with the same long mucro- 

 nate point. Its branches are somewhat flexuose, with rather 

 close internodes, and a spine grows out of each salient node : the 

 leaves are 3 to 9 lines long, ^ to 2 lines broad; the peduncle is 

 2 lines, the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 5 lines, its seg- 

 ments I to 1 line long : the shorter stamens are 1 line, the inter- 



are "blue purple ^^t« 



length 



** Filamenta basi hirsuta. Sp. 9 ad 14. 

 9- Lycium Austrinum (n, sp.) ; (an L. oxycarpurrij var.a.grandi-^ 



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ramosum, inerme, vel rarius 



breviter spinosum; ramulis tortuosis, subnitidis, grosse no- 

 dosis, nodis approximatis, creberrime foliosis ; foliis 5-20 e 

 nodis fasciculatis, glaberrimis, longe lanceolatis, obtusis^ vel 

 acutiusculis, in petiolum tenuem spathulatis ; floribus e fasci- 

 culis 2-5j pedunculis folio brevioribus, calyceque tubuloso 

 4-5-dentato 3plo longioribus; corolla majuscula, tubulosa, 

 subincurva, imo crassa, coarctata, glabra, intus paullo infra 

 insertionem staminum pubescente, limbi laciniis 5 rotundatis, 

 nervosis, glabris, tubo 6-8vo brevioribus, staminibus valde 

 insequalibus^ filamentis e quarta parte tubi orientibus, imo 

 geniculatis et glabris, mox lougiuscule hirsutis, dein glabris^ 

 filiformibus^ 2 longioribus longe exsertis, 2 intermediis faucem 

 attingentibus, 1 multo breviori inserto ; stylo filiformi, apice 

 crassiusculo, incurvo, exserto. — In Africa Australi. — v. s, in 

 herb. Hook. Gamka lliver [Burke). 



A plant with large conspicuous flowers hke those of L. Afrum, 



* A drawing with details of this species is s1io\^ti in plate 65 A. 

 t This species with analytical details is delineated in plate 65 B. 



