12 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
by Prof. Kunth on a shrubby plant with much the habit of a 
Witheringia, brought from the Cordillera of New Granada 
by Humboldt, was placed by that learned botanist among 
Cestrinee, on account of the resemblance of its flowers to 
those of Cestrum, although he confesses he knew nothing of 
the form of the embryo of its seed. Until this fact be ascer- 
tained it remains doubtful whether it may not with equal 
reason be classed in Solanew, near Salpichroa or Chenesthes, 
which view is much favoured by its numerous ovules seen 
upon the thickened placenta on the dissepiment; but on the 
other hand it must not be forgotten that some analogy exists 
between the appendiculate processes of the filaments in this 
genus, and the singular projection often seen upon the fila- 
rubro-flavida, tubo latiori, staminibus inclusis.—~Nova Granada, (Gou- 
dot.) v. s. in Herb. Hooker. 
This is a shrub 10 or 12 feet high, with leaves 11 lin. long, 7 lin. broad, 
petiole 2 lin. ; corolla smooth both without and within, except at the place 
of the insertion of the filaments somewhat above its base, where it is 
tomentous ; the lobes of the border are oblong, obtuse, mucronulate at the 
apex, and tomentous on the inflected margins ; filaments glabrous, anthers 
2-lobed, oblong, yellowish green, in the mouth of the tube; berry black. 
4. Lycioplesium horridum. Lycium horridum, HBK. 3.52. Lycium par- 
vifolium, Wild, R. and Sch. 14.698 3—suffruticosum, spinosissimum ; 
foliis fasciculatis, obovatis, obtusis, crassiusculis, nitidis ; floribus soli- 
tariis, pendulis; corolla violacea, staminibus subinclusis.—Andibus 
Peruvie circa Caxamarcam. 
This is said to be a shrub 6 feet high, with many spreading, thick, leaf- 
less branches ; branchlets an inch long, furnished with leaves at base, spi- 
nose at the apex ; leaves fasciculate (4-7), petiolate, 4-6 lin, long (includ- 
ing the petiole 1 lin.) 2-24 lin. broad; flowers subaxillary, peduncles 3-4 
lin. long, filiform, and smooth ; calyx semiglobose, obsoletely 5-toothed, 
nearly entire, smooth, with 5 small acute teeth, about 1 line long ; corolla 
smooth, tubular, somewhat curved, 7 lines long, border with 5 equal, acute, 
spreading lobes with ciliate pubescent margins ; stamens inserted at base 
of tube, and equal in length to the corolla, filaments smooth, anthers erect, 
oblong ; ovarium conical, smooth ; style filiform, smooth, rather longer 
than the stamens ; stigma thickened, green, 
5. Lycioplesium Meyenianum. Lycium (Grabowskya?) Meyeniana, Nees ab 
Esenb. Nov, Act. 19 Suppl. 1.390. Atropa spinosa. Meyen, Reise um die 
Erde, 1,416 ;—erectum, rigidum, spinosum ; foliis lanceolatis, obtusis, 
