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ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



3 lines apart, have a fascicle of four to eight leaves springing' 

 from them, and many arc furnished with a short needle-formed 

 spine. The leaves are spathulately oblong, obtuse, fleshy, glau- 

 cously pubescent on both sides, with short, rigid, erect hairs ; 

 they are 1 or 1^ line long, and scarcely more than ^ line broad \ 

 the peduncle, often deflexed, is 1 line long, and about the same 

 length as the pubescent calyx, which is divided half-way into 

 four linear, obtuse, erect teeth : the corolla is 5 or 6 lines long, 

 \ line broad towards the base, but swelhng to 1 line in diameter 

 at its mouth, the four smooth, almost orbicular lobes of the 

 border being about | line diameter ; the capillary filaments are 

 mserted into the tube at a distance of one-third of its length from 

 the base ; they are 4 lines long, and are pubescent for two-thirds 

 of their length, the inner surrounding portion of the tube being 

 also pubescent for about the same distance. This species, althouo-h 

 with acicular spines, will be seen to be extremely different fro^m 

 L. rachdocladum, described by M. Dunal from the same locaHty*. 



26. Lycium minuiifolium, Remy in Gay Hist. Chile, v. 93; 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 173 ;— ramosissimum, ramulis spinescentibus • 

 fohis fasciculatis, minutissimis, ovatis, obtusis, hirsutis, pedun- 

 cuhs axillaribus, solitariis, calyce 4-dentato, vix puberulo 

 corolla anguste tubulosa, longiuscula, apice vix dilatata, limbo 

 4-fido, staminibus vix exsertis. — Chile. 



From the above description we may infer that this plant bears 

 much analogy with the preceding, apparently differing in its 

 ovate leaves and scarcely exserted stamens. 



27. Lycium stenophyllum, Remy, loc. cit. p. 94j— spinescens 

 ramosum ; foliis fasciculatis, insequalibus, linearibus, crassius- 

 cuhs, obtusis, pubescentibus, 3 Im. longis; floribus solitariis, 

 axillaribus, calyce 4-fido, pubescente, segmentis oblongis ob- 

 tusis; corolla tubulosa.— Chile. 



From the above description it is not clear to which section 

 this species belongs ; but from its 4-merous flowers and its habit 

 it IS probably nearly allied to the two preceding species. 



28. Lycium cedroides, Schl. Linn. vii. 70. Acnistus cestroides, 

 nob III. So. Am. PI. i. 23; Dun. in Prodr. DC. xiii 500- 

 — breviter spmosum, ramis subflexuosis, albescentibus, iuniori- 

 bus pubescentibus, ramulis brevibus, floriferis, apice spinosis ; 

 fohis alternis, elhpticis, oblongis, apice acuminatis, imo cunea- 

 tis, margme subreflexo obsolete creimlato puberulo, nervosis, 

 utnnque subglabris et minutissime rugulosis, sub lente 



A representation of this plant, with details, is given in plate 67 E. 



