CATALOGUE. 275 
leaves 1-2' long, ovate, oblong or lanceolate, attenuate into the petiole, entire, 
undulate-margined; flowers small, in axillary umbels of 3-4, on short pedi- 
cels ; calyx 1^-2" long, campanulate, the ovate acutish lobes twice longer 
than the tube, enlarging in fruit and equahng the capsule ; corolla 3" long, 
blue or purplish, plicate in aestivation, scarcely at all dilated above, the lobes 
short, triangular, erect; stamens and style nearly equaling the corolla, or 
some of the stamens shorter ; capsule 2¥' in diameter ; seeds 10-20, H" 
broad, narrowly margined, the cavity of the flattened testa much exceeding the 
small albumen. — On stony barren foot-hills near the Big Bend of the Truckee, 
Nevada; May. The specimens are young but sufficiently mature to show 
the distinctive generic characters. Its affinities are with the Petunice of 
Micrs. Plate XXVIII. Fig. 5. Plant ; natural size. Fig. 6. Flower. 
Fig. 7. Corolla, laid open. Fig. 8. Mature ovary ; all enlarged four diame- 
ters. Fig. 9. Seed, enlarged eight diameters. Fig. 10. Albumen and 
embryo ; enlarged sixteen diameters. (941.) 
Lycium pallidum, Miers. Gray's Rev. Lye, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6. 45. 
A shrub, 3-4° high, glabrous, spiny ; leaves 4-li' long, oblong- or obovate- 
spatulate, with a very narrow base, acute or obtuse, fascicled ; calyx broad- 
campanulate, 5-cleft to the middle or deeper, the lobes li-2" long, sub- 
foliaceous, spreading, lanceolate to ovate and oflen very obtuse, exceeding 
the tube; corolla 9-10" long, tubular-funnelform, greenish; filaments and 
corolla glabrous within, or somewhat hairy or hirsute ; anthers terminating 
in a deciduous mucro ; fruit 4-5" in diameter. — New Mexico ; Arizona ; 
Southern Utah, (Dr. Palmer, 1870.) 
Lycium Andersonii, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad., 7. 388. Glabrous; 
leaves lJ-3" long, spatulate, fleshy ; calyx short-campanulate, usually shorter 
than the (\V long) pedicel, the margin repandly-toothcd or denticulate ; 
corolla narrowly tubular, nearly h,' long, the throat somewhat dilated, 
lobes 4, very broad, much shorter than the tube, equaling the anthers ; fila- 
ments glandular-pilose at base. — A thorny diffusely branched shndj, with 
much the appearance of Sarcohatus, 2-3° high ; berries red, globose, 2-3" in 
diameter, with a membranous 4-5-lobed disk surrounding the base. — Dis- 
covered by Dr. Anderson in Southeastern Nevada. Carrington Island, in 
Salt Lake; in fruit, June. The most northern locality in whicli any Ameri- 
can species has been found. (942.) 
