133 ILLUSTRATIONS OP 



loque dense barbato cincto^ limbi laciniis 5^ oblongis^ paten- 

 tibuSj tube flavido parum longioribus, intus glabris, versus 

 marginem pallescentibus^ centro lilacinis, lineis purpureis 

 notatis ; staminibus 5 e medio tubi ortis, subsequalibus^ fila- 

 mentis supra geniculum basalem Isevem glandula lineari glabra 

 margine densiter villosa donatis, et cum fasciculis totidem 

 tube adnatis alternantibus hinc faucem claudentibus, superne 

 glaberrimis, attenuatis et longe exsertis^ ovario tubi eircum- 

 scissi reliquo semi-involuto, stylo staminibus paullo longiore, 

 stigmate sub-2-lobo ; bacca ovali, coccineaj apiculata, calyce 

 suffulta. — ^Chile^ prsesertim in litoribus. — v. v.* 



This may be considered as the type of the many South 

 American species, which form a well-marked group, distin- 

 guished principally by their peculiar brachiate pubescence, the 

 hairs being always articulated^ often short, and sometimes only 

 visible under the leas : they are also remarkable for the peculiar 

 glandidar long adnate scale with fimbriated or barbated margins 

 attached to the lower portion of the stamens, and which by the 

 geniculation of the filaments at their origin, compoise a fornix 

 that closes the tube of the corolla : they might almost form a 

 distinct section or subgenus [Celidophora). The angles of the 

 branchlets generally exhibit raised reddish-coloured ribs which 

 spring from each side of the bony cupular or bracket-shaped 

 node seen at the origin of each branch or leaf. . In this species 

 the leaves are often small, in some cases almost linear, in others 

 ovate, varying from 4 to 8 lines in length, and 1 to 3 hues in 

 breadth : the petiole is almost obsolete : the peduncle is 3 lines, 

 the calyx 2 lines long, which offers the peculiarity of being 

 thickly pubescent within as well as outside ; the pointed reflected 

 teeth are a line in length : the tube of the corolla is 2 lines 

 long, the segments of the border 3 lines : the stamens are 2^ 



length : the scarlet berry 



2A lines broad, and 



seeus, in wmcn me sienaer terete embryo makes a gyration and a 

 half, in a spiral form j the radicle, nearly equal in length to the 

 cotyledons, points to the basal angle of the seed, avoiding the 

 lateral hilum. This shrub is very common along the coast of 

 Chile, where it is called Piquillin : it is no. 367 of Cuming's col- 



lection. 



Meyen 



Dournooa oi uoquimoo, reterrecl to this species by M. Dunal, 

 which from the description appears to me to accord better with 

 L. salsum^ R. & P. 



63. Lycium pubescens (n. sp.) ; — ramosissimum, omnino pubes- 

 cens, ramulis approximatis, horizontaliter divergentibus, spi- 



* This plant with sectional details is shown in nlate 72 D. 



