^^^ ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



Petropol~{lhtv\^ orientali) W. Busen--et in herb. Lindley, 



A plant completely with the habit of L. Barbanm, but dif- 

 fering m the structure of its flowers. The stems are smooth, 

 very pale, flexuose, mth spinose spreading branchlets ; the axils 

 are nodose ; the leaves, two to four in each axillary fascicle, 8 to 

 15 hues long and 1 to 21 lines broad, are quite smooth and 



t.l of r ^r'""' T'""^ ^'^^ °^ ^^'^ f^«««le; tbe peduncles 

 are 2-2^ Imes long, the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 



tr'T\ K^ f S?^^^*.l ?f tlie border 2 lines ; the filaments are 



nserted about the middle of the tube, and are hirsute towards 



the base, smooth above, reaching the extremities of the border- 



segments*. 



*** Staminibus imo fascicula pilorum barbatis. Sp. 43 ad 47, 



^.Lyciumvulgare,X)n^^\ in DC.Prodr.xiii.509,cum omn.synon. 

 ibi citat. Lycium Chmense, Miller, Dunal in DC. ibidem, 510 

 cum sms respechvts synon. Lycium megistocarpum, Dunal 

 Ibid, cum symn. Lycmm subglobosum, Dunal, ibid. Lycium 

 Cochmchmense, Lour. ; Dunal ut supra citat ;-fruticosum 

 erectum, glabrum, merme, vel s^pe sparse spinosum, ramuKs 



raT /'' -^Jf' arcuato-nutantibus ; fohis subalternis, 

 ranus fasciculatis, ovatis, vel ellipticis, apice subacutis, ve 

 obtusis imo cuneatis, vel in petiolum tenuem spathulatis, 

 junioribus lanceolatis : floribus ex axillis solitariis, aut 2 ad 

 6, pedicello filiformi flore longiori, calyce tubulari, breviter 



d^nJ^hn °' '^^' '° \^T'- ^-^ '"P*"' ^^^^'^> ^e^tura tenui, 

 dentibus margme subciliatis, corolla tubo imo coarctato, mox 



mfundibuhformi, hmbi laciniis oblongis, striato-reticdX 

 violaceis, expansis, tubo fere ^quilon^s / staminibus 5 fere 

 jequahbus, exsertis, filamentis in tubi constrictionem insert's 

 hinc geniculatis et gkbris, mox fascicula densa pilorum bar: 



Ln^bus^T' ^''^r '' fi^^f--ibus, ,pice laciniarum at L- 

 gentibus : bacca rubro-aurantiaca, ovata, vel comco-oblonga 

 s^pe mcurva, calyce fisso suffulta.-Ubique in Europa australi^ 

 Africa et Asia, praesertim in China.-..\ in herkmruTTe'. 



uens from China with 

 Wester 



tStt r def f "T '^^^^^^ ^^- r-dr Laming 

 carefiilly all the details registered concerning the various species 



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