SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS, 9 
I found this plant at several places in the Pampas, at a 
distance of nearly 600 miles in the interior, and afterwards 
near Buenos Ayres; and although these differ very much in 
appearance, I can hardly venture to designate them as dis- 
tinct species; they are therefore added merely as varieties. 
Var. 6. divaricata; caule flexuoso, valde divaricatim ra- 
moso, foliis obovatis, minoribus, utrinque pilosiusculis.— 
Pampas, ab Esquina de Medrano usque Frayle muerto, Pro- 
vincie Cordovensis. 
This plant is of more straggling habit, the branchlets 
spreading very widely, and the leaves scarcely exceeding 4 to 3 
of an inch in length, the stem being 4-angular and pu- 
bescent. 
var. y. pubescens.—caule 4-gono ; foliis fere ovalibus, rotun- 
datis, utrinque valde pubescentibus, petiolo gracili— Pampas, 
San Luiz usque Rio Quinto.—This presents a very different 
appearance to the last variety; the leaves being about the 
same size, but the petiole is much longer and more slender. 
6. Salpichroa ciliata. Lycium ciliatum, Schl. Linn. 7, 70:— 
suffruticosa, subscandens, ramis elongatis, flexuosis, ramu- 
lis interdum subspinescentibus ; foliis sparsis, inequila- 
teris, rotundato-ovatis, interdum subcordatis, in petiolum 
attenuatis, apice brevissime acuminatis, utrinque glabris, 
_ margine denticulato-ciliatis ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, 
brevissime pedunculatis, cernuis, calycis laciniis linearibus, 
acutis ; corolla puberula, infundibuliformi, genitalibus ex- 
sertis.—Rio Negro, Banda Oriental (Sellow). 
From Professor Schlechtendahl’s description, it is evident 
that this plant has a close affinity to the foregoing. The 
eaves are 14 inch long, 16 to 18 lines broad; the peduncle is 
14 to 2 lines long, erect, and curving downward ; the calyx 
is deeply cleft into 5 linear segments, is covered with short 
glandular pubescence, and the margins are ciliated with glan- 
dular hairs. The corolla, somewhat longer than the calyx, 
is downy externally with glandular hairs, (articulate ?), funnel- 
shaped, the segments of the border are triangular, rather 
obtuse, reflexed, with glandular ciliate margins; the stamens 
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