tending to fastigiate: more frequently it is a small, P, S. When preparing to send the above to press, 

 ragged, stunted-looking shrub ; flowers blue, anthers I received the following character and notes on 



this species from Mr. Stocks, On reconsidering 



character of L, Europauniy with the aid of 



1403. Lycium Tndicum (R. W.), shrubby, ramous, Mr. Stocks' notes, it seems not improbable that 



branches spreading, flexuose, spinous at the apex: this plant may yet turn out to be a mere variety 



yellow, berries red. 



the 



leaves fascicled, obovato-lanceolate or sub-spathulate, 

 short petioled: peduncles axillary, solitary or 2-3 

 together, about the length of the 5-toothed calyx: 

 corolla erect, infundibuliform, about thrice the length 

 of the calyx, contracted near the base: stamens 

 sub-unequal, the longer ones sub-exserted, inserted 

 below the middle of the tube: filaments pilose, 

 not thickened at the base: anthers short, sub-ver- 

 satile : ovary 2-celled : ovules numerous : stigma 

 capitate: fruit globose, by abortion, 2-seeded (al- 

 ways?): seed compressed-reniform, muricate on the 

 back. 



of that species. 



"Lycium Europjeum (Linn?), shrubby, stunted, 



thorny; branches weak, flexuous, pendent, branch- 

 lets 



young shoots pubescent: leaves al- 



the under-eloped buds) 



on 



Guzerat and Cambay, flowering chiefly in autumn, lighting in a salt soil. 



Stocks. 



spmous, 

 ternate (or fasciculate 



lanceolate or narrowly obovate, obliquely flexuous: 

 flowers solitary or fascicled: corolla (white) with 

 its tube twice as long as the calyx: filaments beard- 

 ed at the base. (Prom Scind plant,) 



"Scind and Guzerat, from Dcesa to Cambay, de- 



September, and October. 



I am indebted to Mr. Stocks for the specimen 

 from which the drawing was made. The original 

 L. Indicum beinsr removed from the eenus and 



being 

 this being, so far 



as I 



genus 

 am aware, the only truly 



and nearly allied to 



Indian species of the genus, 

 L. Afruuniy I have given it a geographical specific 



from the specimens only. 



designation, 

 this appears 

 very ramous 

 branches 



specimens 

 somewhat spreadin 



of the 



or 



larger 



Judging 

 to be a low, 

 shrub; each flexure 

 giving origin to a tuft of leaves and 

 smaller branch terminating in a spine. 



, are more decidedly lanceolate 



than in the one figured. The flowers which are 

 small and of a slender form appear from the dried 

 specimens to be pale yellow, but as they were 

 unaccompanied with any notes, I am uncertain 



on that point. 



m some specimens 



"Probably L. Europceum of Royle's Illustrations, 

 mentioned as growing about Delhi. Probably *L. 

 Europaeuin, L.? or L. Ruthenicum^ Murray? Hab. 

 pres de Jerusalem' of Decaisne in enumeration of 

 Bove's plants, Ann. Sc. Nat, ii. vol. iv. 352. 



"Identical with a Lycium in Schimper's Herbarium 

 gathered near Djedda. 



"Most likely distinct firom L. Europ<tum in its 

 white flowers and bearded stamens. Varies much 

 in the size and shape of its leaves, in their smooth- 

 ness or pubescence, in the evenness or wavlness 

 The leaves of their surface, and in their texture. Calyx with 



5^ minute irregular ciliate teeth. Stamens 5-6, un- 

 equal in height. Style sometimes exserted. Fruit 

 dull-yellow or coral-rod, globose, bursting the calyx 

 at one side, pulpy, size of a swan shot- Cells 3-8- 

 seeded. Seeds flat lenticular. Flowers chiefly in 

 autumn (Sept. Oct.)." 



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