SOLANACEAE. 323 



1 -celled hairs; leaves oblong, elliptic or lanceolate, mostly attenuate 

 or acute at the base, 2-6 cm. long; corolla 2 cm. broad. 



Occasional in the valleys and foothills, mostly in dry and rather 

 exposed places. 



4. S. Wallace! (Gray) Parish. Stems woody, about 1 m. high, 

 densely tawny with long many-celled glandular, mostly simple 

 hairs; leaves thickish, usually smoother than the stems, crenate, 

 the lower ample, cordate, the upper ovate, rounded or subcordate 

 at base; calyx narrowly funnelform, deeply cleft or less so and 

 broader; corolla 2-4 cm. broad, deep violet; style glabrate or villous 

 below; fruit dark purple. 



Santa Catalina Island. 



5. S. rostratum Dunal. Annual, erect, branching, 1-3 dm. high, 

 pubescent with long yellowish stellate hairs and armed with long 

 straight prickles; leaves pinnatind; calyx densely prickly, its lobes 

 narrow, nearly half the length of the corolla and enclosing the fruit; 

 corolla about 2 cm. broad, yellow; anthers linear-lanceolate, the 

 lowest much longer and larger, with an incurved beak. 



Occasional in waste places and along roadsides. Inglewood; 

 Soldiers Home; Santa Monica. Native of Texas. 



3. LYCIUM L. Box-thorn. 



Shrubby, often spiny plants, with small alternate 

 entire leaves, and white greenish or purple, axillary or 

 terminal solitary or clustered flowers. Calyx campanu- 

 late, 3-5-lobed or 3-5-toothed, not enlarged in fruit, per- 

 sistent at the base of the berry. Corolla funnelform, 

 salver-shaped or campanulate, the limb 5-lobed, the 

 lobes obtuse. Stamens 5; filaments filiform, sometimes 

 dilated at the base; anther-sacs longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. 

 Berry globose to oblong. 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate, exceeding the tube. 1. L. richii. 



Calyx-lobes oblong or triangular, shorter than 

 the tube. 

 Corolla-tube short, not exceeding the calyx. 2. L. calif ornicum. 

 Corolla-tube about 3 times the length of the 



calyx. 3. L. parishii. 



1. L. richii Gray. Stem slender; leaves narrowly spatulate, 

 2-4 cm. long; flowers short-pedicelled, 8-10 mm. long; calyx-teeth 

 lanceolate, nearly or quite equaling the corolla-tube; corolla-lobes 

 oval, slightly exceeding the tube. 



A Mexican species reported from Santa Catalina Island. 



2. L. calif ornicum Nutt. Glabrous; stems slender, much 

 branched, about 6-12 dm. high; leaves thickish, 2-6 mm. long, 

 obovate or spatulate to nearly linear; pedicels often nearly obso- 



