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GRABOVVSKIA boerhaavifefolia. 

 Boerhaama- leaved Grabo wskta. 



PENT Ai\ DRI A il ONOG YMA. 



Nut. Ord. SOLANACES. 



GRABOWSKIA Schlechtendahl in Linnma vol. 7. p. 71. Cahjx 

 subcampanulatus regulariter 5-deiitatus eestivatioiie valvar!. Corolla e tubo 

 brevi iiit'uiulibuliformis, limbo 5-partito, laciniis patentibus reflexisve, quatuor 

 aestivatione convolutiva, quinta externa niarginibus suis vicinaruin margines 

 obtegens. Genitalia exserta. Stamina 5 a?qualia, filamentis paulo supra tubi 

 basin liberis, medio dense villosis (villis basin versus decrescentibus). Stylus 

 teres, stigmate subeapitato aut leviter bifido. Germen 4-loculare, loculamenlis 

 1 -ovulatis. Bacca calyce persistente suffulta, globosa, dipyrena, pyrenis 

 lignosis bilocularibus, loculis l-spermis. Embryo hamalo-curvatus, cylindrieus. 



¥ruXe\ hab'ttu l^ycn yennini ramosissiinus, ST^ims axillaribus horridus ; 



foliis sparsis integerrimis. Flotes axitlares c. fasciculis foliornm (ramulo 

 non evoluto); aut subcorymhosi in ramulis summis (hinc in idtmiis ramis 

 quasi peiniculati). 



G. boerhaavi(Efolia. Schlecht. 1. C. 



Lyciuiu boerhaavisefolium. Linn, suppl. p. 150. La?n. Encycl. 3. 510. 



Willd. Sp. pi. 1. 1060. 

 Ehretia lialimifolia U Merit. Stirp. 1. 45. t. 83. 

 Lycium beterophyllum. Murray Co7nment. gott. 178,')./). (i. t. 2. 



Flores oppositijolii, solitarii. Calyx carnosus, subregularis, scepius 

 latere Jissus. Corolla pallida, plumbeo-ccerulea, astivalione ijnbricata, 

 laciniis marqine refiexis, venis viridibics reticulatis ad basin ; seriebus quin- 

 que pilorum succulentorum articulatorum faucem Jilamenta et lubimi a 

 busi stamiuum occupantibus. Discus aitrantiacus, carnosus, cith, ovario 

 crescente, absorptus. Ovarium carnosum, 4- loculare ; ovulo sohtario sptuB- 

 rico ascendente in quoque loculo; stylus simplex, glaber ; stigma incrassatum, 

 viride, utrinque dcclive, vix bilobum. 



A spiny scrambling shrub, with singular fleshy, glaucous 

 leaves, which give it a grey appearance, like Atriplex Hali- 



* Named by Professor von Schlechtendahl after Mr. H. Grabowsky, an 

 apothecary of Ohiaf, and together with Wimmer, the author of a good Flora 

 Silesiaca. 



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