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ramifications are more intricately branched and spinose ; the bark 

 is darker^ more striated and pubescent, and the leaves are smaller ; 

 the axillary nodes, however, are equally approximate, and the 

 flowers are exactly similar in size and structure*. 



!. Lycium rachidocMum, Dun. in DC. Prodr. xni. 519. 

 tricato-ramosum, spinosum, ramulis rufescente-roridis, glan- 

 dulis glutinoso-resinosis et pilis articulatis vcstitis, spinis 

 junioribus acutis, gemmiferis, adultioribus tortuoso-ramifor- 

 mibus : foliis parvis, obovatis, carnosis, apice rotundis, imo in 

 petiolum tenuem spathulatis, utrinque viscoso-puberulis, pilis 

 crebris, brevissimis, crassiuscuhs, glanduliformibus ; flonbus 

 subsolitariis, breviter pedunculatis, calyce insequahtcr 4- rarms 

 5-fido, segmentis acutis, subreflexis, utrinque glanduloso- 

 pubescentibus ; coroUee tubo extus glandulis brevibus farmoso- 

 puberulis, calyce 2plo longiore, infundibuliforme, hmbi laci- 

 niis 5, oblongis, margine ciliatis, tubo brevionbus : stami- 

 nibus 5 ina^qualibus, 3 longioribus laciniis sequilongis exsertis, 

 filamentis tenuibus, medio tubi insertis, imo gemculatis et 

 longe hirsutis, superne glabris : stylo exserto, cum ovano arti- 

 culato; ovario coroUse reUquo semi-vestito.— Chile.— r. s. in 



MacRae 



floribundum, Dun 



branches are more intricately spreading and spmose, the bark 

 is darker and more farinose, the leaves are smaller and more 

 oblong : on the other hand, theii- axillary nodes are equally ap- 



EowT The ^:i^H to 2 lines long, | Une In-oad ; the 

 barren spines are 3 to 3 lines, the gemmiferous 4 to 6 mes or 

 longer; the peduncle | line; the calyx H Ime long, def nearly 

 halfwa; into five very acute teeth ; the tube of the corolla is 2 



lines, and its segments 11 line long ; it is S^ .^.^^^^^ ' ^^^^^P^^p 

 the ^oint of insertion of the stamens : the filaments are pilo.e 

 at their base for a quarter of their length, three of them rea h the 

 extremity of the segments, two are shorter ; the slender style is 

 .■L_ i„„„"li, ^j- *!,„ h.,.<r^v «tamens. and is articulated with the 



the length of the longer stamens 



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53. Lycium tenuispino^m (n.sp.) ;-fruticosum, mtricato-iamo- 

 sum' ramulis helvolis, viscoso-puberulis,^ valde d^^ari^^ ^' 

 tenuiter et crebre spinosissimis : folns mmutis fasciculat s, 

 an^uste linearibus, viscoso-puberulis ; floribus e fascicuhs soli- 

 tarns, calyce tubuloso, pihs articulatis crebre pubescente, ultra 



A drawine of this plant with floral sections is given in plate /O F. 

 Tl,;« «npcies with analytical details is shown m plate / 1 1^ 



t This species with analytical 



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