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reflected segments, the length of the tube being 2 j lines, and of 

 the segments | line : the stamens^ inserted a little above the 

 base of the tube, are 3 lines long ; the style is 3^ lines in length ; 

 the lower moiety of the ovary is enclosed in the cup-shaped in- 

 duvial base of the corolla*. 



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spinosum, glaberrimum, ramuHs striatulis, subflexuosis 

 nitidis, stramineis, apice spinosis; foliis solitariis, 2-3nisve 

 \ Cuneato-oblongis subovatisve, obtusis; floribus parvis, bre 



\ vissime pedunculatis, sohtariis; calyce brevi, poculiformi, 



5-dentato; corollse tubulosae tubo calyce 5plo longiori, hmbi 

 laciniis 5, brevibus, rotundatis, reflexis; staminibus insertis. 

 California, — v. $. in herb. Hook. — Magdalena Bay [Barclay), 

 specim. fiore manco. 



A spiny shrub with a barren aspect, apparently with few ob- 

 ovate leaves, which are 4 to 9 lines long, narrowed at the base 

 into a slender petiole, and 2 to 3 lines broad. The specimen 

 above referred to has only a single imperfect flower, with a pe- 

 duncle ^ line long ; the calyx measures 1 line, the corolla 3 lines, 

 including the segments of its border ^ line in length ; more 

 perfect flowers, according to Mr. Bentham, are 5 lines longf. 



%. Mesocope. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbi laciniis dimidium 

 tuhi superantibus, sed ejus longitudinem non excedentibus. 



A. Gerontogeje. 

 * Stamina lavia. Sp. 39 ad 41. 



39, Lycium Barbarum^ Linn, ex parte, non aliorum; Dunal in 



DC. Prodr. xiii. 511, cum synonymiis variis ibi relatis. — In 



• Persia Australi, Scinde et Afghanistan. — v.s. in herb. Hook. 



Abouschir [Aucher Eloy, n. 5037). — Dalechi, distr. Abouschir 



[Kotschy, n. 166).— Afghanistan [Griffiths, n. 670 et 672). 



Scinde, Kurdigass [Dr. Stocks, n. 995). 



This species was well distinguished by Linnseus, though con- 

 founded by other botanists and horticulturalists with L. vulgare 

 and L. Europ<2um, from which it is marked by very peculiar 

 characters. It is very spinose, with flexuose, knotty, crooked 

 branches, its splitting bark being of a glaucous whitish or brown- 

 ish hue; the nodes are large and very prominent, often woolly: 

 the leaves, three to five in each axillary fascicle, are linear, obtuse, 

 spathulate at base, diminishing into a short slender petiole ; they 



* This species with sectional details is represented in plate 69 B. 

 t This species with floral sections is represented in plate (jfi C. 



