SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS* 129 



This well-known species, long since established upon very di- 

 stinct characters, appears to differ in no essential respect from 

 the plant described by Mo9ino and Sesse, and which may safely 

 be considered as identical with it, especially as I find the descri])- 

 tion of its fruit corresponds with the specimen above noticed 

 from New Orleans. The leaves are generally single and alter- 

 nate, from 7 to 18 lines long and 1^ to 2^ lines broad, narrow- 

 ing at the base into a short channelled petiole : the peduncle is 

 slender below, thicker at its apex, and is from 5 to 8 lines long ; 

 the cup-shaped calyx is nearly 2 lines in length, with four short 

 triangular teeth, ciliated at their points^ but it is afterwards split 

 irregularly into larger segments : the tube of the corolla is 3 lines 

 long, the oblong segments of its border 2^ lines ; the filaments 

 arise in the mouth of the basal constriction of the tube, and pre- 

 sent a dense oblong biTish of hairs at their geniculated origin, 

 their summits attaining the length of the middle of the segments, 

 two of them being a trifle shorter ; the style far exceeds the length 

 of the stamens : the crimson globular or oval berry is somewhat 

 apiculated, and 5 lines in diameter*. 



**** Filamenta imo glandula Uneari carnosa marline ciliata 



donata. Sp. unica. 



59. Lyeium ignarum (n. sp.) ; — fruticosum, ramulis longe vir- 

 gatis, dependentibus^ angulato-striatis, pallidis, rarissime spi- 

 nescentibus, nodis axillaribus cupulatis ; foliis alternis ternisve, 

 elliptico-oblongis, utrinque subattenuatis, subpallidis^ textura 

 tenuibus, nervosis, utrinque sub lente albo-punctulatis, mar- 

 gine obsolete ciliatis, breviter petiolatis; floribus solitariis, 

 lon°-e et gracilente pedunculatis, calyce urceolato, striato, 

 membranaceo, pubesceute, fequaliter 5-dcntato, dcntibus lan- 

 ceolatis, acutis, tubo dimidio brevioribus ; corolla extus pubes- 

 cente, imo densiter tomentosa, sicco pallida, tubo infundibu- 

 liformi, calyce duplo longiore, limbi laciuiis 5, reticulato-ner- 

 vosis, stammibus 5 sequalibus, exsertis, filamcntis circa basin 

 tubi insertis, bine geniculatis et glandula adnata oblonga lati- 

 uscula margine ciliata donatis, supeme membranaceis, gra- 

 datim angustioribus, vix apicem laciniarum attingentibus ; 

 stylo staminibus sequilongo; stigmate _sub-2-Iabiat.o.— Patria 

 ignota : an America meridionali? — v. s. in herb. Lindleym hort. 

 Soc. Hortic. cult, sub nomine L. Sinense. 



This plant has much of the habit of L. erosum, and from many 

 peculiar points of analogy, I have little doubt is of South Ame- 



* A representation of this species with structural details is given in 

 plate 71 r. 



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