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is U line long, and is half cleft into five acute linear teeth, having 

 pubescent margins: the tube of the corolla is 4 lines long, its 

 ovate lobes are barely | line long, the three longer stamens are 

 1 line, the two shorter ones ^ line in length*. 



30. Lycium fuseum (n. sp.) ;— intricato-ramosum, spinosum, 

 folds glaberrimis, fasciculatis^ late ovatis, in petiolum brevius- 

 culum attenuatis, eveniis, crassiusculis, glauco-viridibus, fuscis, 

 utrinque glauduloso-rugosis, vel elevato-punctatis ; floribus e 

 fasciculis solitariis, breviter pedunculatis, calyce brevi, cupuli- 

 formi, breviter 4-dentato, corolla fusco-purpurea, longe tubu- 

 losa, subincurva, imo angustiore et sulcata, superne paullo 

 amphore, limbi laciniis % brevissimis, suborbiculatis, margine 

 dense albo-fimbriatis, staminibus 4 in?equaliter exsertis, fila- 

 mentis in coarctationem tubi insertis, hinc geniculatis et hir- 

 sutis, inferne in nervis totidem prominulis glabris deliquescen- 

 tibus, superne Isevibus, stylo staminibus multo longiore ; bacca 

 cserulescente, ovali, breviter apiculata, calyce suffulta. — In An- 

 dibus Provincise Mendozse. — v. v. ad San Pedro de Uspallata. 



I found this plant growing abundantly in the above-named 

 portion of the Cordillera; unfoi-tunately the only specimen 

 gathered during my last rapid journey over the Andes was lost, 

 but some of the leaves and flowers were preserved with the 

 berries, collected at the same time. The leaves are somewhat 

 fleshy, roundly oval, 3 lines long and 2 or 3 lines broad, sud- 

 denly narrowed into a short petiole 2 hnes in length ; the 

 peduncle is 2 lines long; the cup-shaped calyx is 1^ line long, 

 with four short equal teeth; the tube of the corolla is 5^ lines 

 long, the lobes of the border ^ line in diameter, and are remark- 



ns, as in L. cestroidesf. 



31. Lycium confertum (n. sp.) ; — intricato-ramosum, ramulis 

 nodoso-flexuosis, spinosis, rarius inermibus, cortice cano, ri- 

 moso, spinis brevibus in axilhs approximatis : foliis 6-10, 

 valde fasciculatis, angustissime linearibus, in petiolum spathu- 

 latis, glaberrimis ; floribus in fasciculis solitariis, breviter pe- 

 dunculatis, calyce cylindrico, pilosulo, laciniis 5 subulatis, 

 tubo sequilongis; corolla anguste tubulosa, vix infundibuli- 

 formi, imo coarctata, extus pubescente, imo in contractlonem 

 tubi annulo dense barbato cincta, limbi laciniis ovatis, glabris, 

 tubo 7mo brevioribus, staminibus insequalibus, inclusis, fila- 

 mentis in medio tubi insertis, longiuscule hirsutis, superne 

 Isevibus, 2 longioribus faucem attingentibus, 2 vix sequilongis, 

 1 dimidio fere breviori, stylo exserto^ bacca ovata, parvula, 



* This species is delineated in plate 68 A. 



t This plant with floral details is shown in plate 68 B. 



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