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mentis omnino glabris, circa medium tubi insertis, 2 minori- 

 bus faucem attingentlbus, 3 longioribus exsertis. — Beloo- 

 chistan. — v. s. in herb. Hook, (in montibus sursum Kelat, 

 versus Johan.) JDr. Stocks, n. 1117. 



This species is probably widely distributed through Scinde, 

 Cabul, and Upper India : the habit of Dr. Stocks* plant is dif- 

 ferent from the specimen from the Punjaub, collected by Mr. 

 Edgeworth, according to the description above quoted of M. Du- 

 ual : the former is very thorny, of bare and stunted growth, with 

 twisted and interlaced branches and small leaves, and has evi- 

 dently grown in an exposed and arid situation j while the latter 

 has long, slender, virgate branches, and abundant foliage of much 

 larger leaves, and was apparently produced in a damp and sheltered 

 place, favourable to its more luxuriant growth. Dr. Stocks' 

 specimens present more the aspect of L. Barbarum, but are 

 distinguished by their much shorter peduncles, more fleshy 

 leaves, and a generally more tartareous appearance; the very 

 flexuose divaricating branches are covered with a splitting bark 

 of a cretaceous hue, with fascicles of few leaves (three to six) 

 proceeding out of the knotty base of the axillary spines : the 

 leaves are linear, obtuse at the summit, tapering below into a 

 short petiole ; they are remarkably thick and fleshy, of a pale 

 glaucous hue, 4 to 9 lines long and | Hne broad : one to five 

 flowers grow out of each fascicle; the peduncle is 2 lines long; 

 the pale glaucous, tubular calyx, often unequally cleft, is 1 1 Ime 

 long : the tube of the corolla, greatly contracted in its lower 

 moiety and funnel-shaped above, is 3 lines long, the oblong 

 segments of its border being 2 lines in length ; it is qmte smooth, 

 excepting a little appearance of pubescence about the insertion ot 

 the stamens, which are unequal in length, the filaments being 

 quite smooth, one not extending beyond the mouth of the tube, 

 two of the length of the segments, and the other intermediate ; 

 the style is the length of the longer stamens. It mil be seen 

 bow little this structure differs from L. Barbarum, and it might 

 be almost considered as a mere variety of that species, from 



merated*. 



distinguishable 



=^* Staminibus imo hirsutis. 



42 Lycium Ruthenicum, Murray, Comm. Gott. 1779, p. 2. 

 tab. 2; WiUd. Sp. i. 1058; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xm. ol4, 

 cam aliis synon. (excl. L. rafaricum).—ln Sibena et Kussia 

 Australi.— 2?. s. in herb. Hook. (Mare Caspico) ew herb. Acad. 



* This plant with its floral analysis is drawn in plate 69 F. 



