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3, Withania Orinocensis,'Dnn.=:^ Larnaw Orinocensis, nob. (huj. vol 



. p. 29). 



4, Xalapensis, Dun. = Larnax Xdlapensis, nob. (ibid,), 



5, • — subtrifiora^ Dun, := Larnax subtriflora, nob. {ibid.), 



6. arborescenSf Dun. = of doubtful affinity, not only in regard 



f to the ffenus, but to the family to 



which it belongs : its berry is said to be 

 10-celled, each cell being 1 -seeded: it 

 cannot therefore belong to Solanacem, 



7. ramosa, Dnn. is Larnax ramosa, noh. Agreeing with this 



genus in the similarity of its inflores- 

 cence and structure of its flowers and 

 its red berries enclosed in an inflated 

 calyx, and the country of its origin. 



8. — sordida, Dun. ^ Larnax sordida, nob. Referrible to this 



genus for the same reasons. 



11. pulvinata. Dun. r:2Salpichromapulninatum,noh, From the 



details given of it evidently belonging 

 to this genus. 

 12. coagulans, Dun. =: Puneeria coagulanSy Stokes. 



The genus Lycium differs from all true Solanacece in the very 

 imbricated sestivation of its corolla, as frequently pointed out, 

 but this character has not been considered by M. Dunal as of any 

 value, for he constitutes a section of this genus [Schistocalyx] 

 out of two species, in one of which the corolla has apparently a 

 valvate sestivation. The first species is the Lycium ciliatuniy Schl., 

 a plant referred by me on this very account to Salpichroma 

 {huj, op. vol. i. p. 9.). As this reference has not been confirmed 

 either by Dr. Sendtner or M. Dunal, it is necessary that I should 

 repeat my reasons for the above conclusion. The habit of the 

 plant, as described by Prof. Schlechtendal, is quite as much that 

 of Salpichroma as that of Lycium ; in both cases the axils of its 

 branches, after the fall of its leaves, become nodose j the stems 

 are angular, from the salient lines decurrent from the points of 

 insertion of the petioles ; the exserted stamens are in like man- 

 ner often densely villous at the points of their origin. It differs 

 hovrever from Lycium in its calyx being divided nearly to the 

 base into five very long linear segments, densely ciliated with 

 glandular hairs, and which increases in size with the fruit; 

 the corolla, nearly twice the length of the calyx, is funnel- 

 shaped, with five reflexed subtriangular segments, which are 

 glandularly ciliated on their margins, indicating a valvate or a 

 plicato-valvate sestivation as inCestrnm : these segments in Lyciu 

 are invariably broad and rounded in their form, overlapping one 

 another by their margins, of thin texture, which are almost always 

 glabrous, except in a few cases where they are fringed with simple 

 ciliate hairs : the berry is red, supported by its erect persistent 

 calyx, the lobes of which exceed it in length, while in Lycium the 

 berry is supported on its small unchanged cupshapcd 5-toothed 



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