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This is a mere fragmentary specimen^ agreeing sufficiently 

 with Willdenow's description, but Avhethcr it be identical \vith 

 the original, or it be the same as that described by M. Dunal, 1 

 have no means of judging. The foregoing diagnosis is therefore 

 only founded upon Brege's plant above mentioned : it consists of 

 a branchlet 5 inches long, with spinous axils | inch apart ; the 

 spines are slender, bare, 3 or 4 lines long, each springing out of 

 a crowded fascicle of leaves, which are spathulately linear, 3 to 5 

 lines in length and } line broad ; a single flower arises out of 

 each fascicle, the peduncle being 2 lines long ; the smooth calyx 

 is li line long, with five short rather equal teeth; the tube of 

 the corolla is 3 lines long, and the oblong segments of its border 

 1 line*. 



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21, Lycium cimreum, Thunb. Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 152. tab. 16 ; 

 Dunal ni DC. Prodr. xiii. 516. Lycium apiculatum, Bm. Joe. 

 cit.b\7. Acocanthera Lycioides, G. Don. Cestrum Lycioides, 



Lichf. — C B. S. 



With these plants I am wholly unacquainted, but from the 

 descriptions quoted, no specific difference is perceptible between 

 them, as was suggested by M. Dunal himself. 



32. Lycium pendulinum (n. sp.) ;— ramosum, ramulis gracilibus, 

 pcnduhnis, annotinis strumoso-nodosis, subuudis, apice spi- 

 nosis, iunioribus fohosis, fohis e cupula ossea axillan fascicu- 

 latis, linearibus, acutis, in petiolum tenucm imo angustatis, 

 eveniis, glaberrimis ; flore e fasciculo sohtario, pcdunculo gra- 

 eili, calyce 4plo longiore, calyce tubuloso, breviter ac subae- 

 quahter 5-dentato, corolla infundibuliformi, imo intra caljxem 

 coarctata, et extus pilosa, supcrne glaberrima, limbi lacinus 

 oblongis, venosis, tubo 4plo longioribus, stamimbus m^equa- 

 libus uno longiore exserto, 2 faucem attmgcntibus, 2 brevi- 

 oribus inclusis : filaraentis supra coarctationcm tubi insertis, 

 hmc nudis ct gcniculatis, mox fasciculo globoso pdorum mu- 

 nitis, superne glabris; stylo filiformi, exserto. --L.B. b — « ' 



V. s. 



Hook, sub nam. L. Aft 



with 



leaves are 4 'ov 5 lines long, ^ line broad ; the peduncle is 3 lines 

 long ; the tubular calyx 2 lines, with five short erect teeth ; the 

 corolla is 3 lines long, and the oval segments of its border ^ to ^ 



of its length t. 



* This species, with sectional drawings, is seen in plate 67 A 

 t This plant, with floral details, is shown m plate b7 «• 



