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LYCIUM 



. Calyx witli 5, rarely 4 teeth, often ultimately dividing into 3 to 5 lobes. 

 Corolla more or less funnel- sliaped, the tube expanding into a campanula te 

 5- rarely 4-lobed limb, the lobes imbricate in the bud. Stamens usually un- 

 equal, longer or shorter than the corolla ; anthers opening longitudnially. 

 Ovary 2-celIed. Berry ovoid or globular. Embryo curved or semicircular, 

 in a fleshy embrj-o.— Shrubs, usually glabrous, the branchlets often spmes- 

 fent. Leaves entire," usually small, often clustered on the old nodes. 1 lowers 

 pedicellate, solitary or several together at the ends of the branchlets or in the 

 dusters of leaves. 



Tte genus is widely spread over the temperate and subtropical regious of the world, espe- 

 Mll}- numerous in S. America and S. Africa. The only Australian species is endemic. 



usually solitary at the nodes, on short recurved pedicels. Calyx scarcely i 

 Ife long, ^vith minute teeth. Corolla white {F. l/«eZ/.) about 5 lines long, 

 'te tube rather slender, gradually dilated upwards, with o rarely 4 owate 

 Jtuse lobes of about 1 line in length, ^'laments inserted near the baeot 

 *he tube, the longest nearly as long as the corolla, hairy to about the middle. 



'^ - Wales. Desert of the Murray and Darling,/. 3/«^//^r. Hergott. 

 stralia. Subsaliiie pastures on the Murray, Behr, t. Mueller. 



8. Australia. 



fte species has entirely the aspect of some of the small-leaved S. African ones 



, ^- cUnense, Mill. , Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. part i. 510 which "-''^^^^/.^S'l^va: 

 i.^-509; Miers, Illustr.ii. 120. t. 70, a species ^^-^^ P^^f ? "^^^^rP^rt ^^^^^^^^ 

 ^°«s, parts of Europe and Asia, is also sent as an introduced plant f^^^^I^P^fjf ^'J^k re- 

 J«eller, and is iu Leichhardt's Collection. It is a taU glabrous f i-'f ■ ^f .;°"i^;,r,7 ven 



"fved or pendulous branches. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate i to 1 in- lou= o 

 '»?". Corolla with a very short tube and deeply-lobed campauulate limb, the lobe» 



woes long. Stamens exserted. 



5. ANTHOTEOCHE, Endh 



, Calyx broadly campanulate, 5- rarely 6-Iobed CoroUa Wd ly^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 ^•^ ^, with 5 rarely 6 lobes, induplicate in the bud._ Anthe s ^ei *orm i 

 ''Y ("^^ 2 cells completely confluent and opening an a -'g^ ^J^ ) j^*; ^'^ 



•^ ^vards in the bud. Ovary 2-celled. Capsule sma I, ^'^^^^^^^^^^^Z^. 



^Ives. Embryo curved, in a fleshy albumen.-Shrubs, more or less ton n 

 ;«fe with plumose or stellate haiVs. Leaves rather small, obtuse, entire, 

 ^w^^ers soHtary in the axds of the floral leaves. 



Fl 



^'^ genus is endemic in Australia. 



2. A. Walcottii. 



-- e-^nus IS endemic m Australia, 

 o'fers sessile, crowded on the branches, loosely woolly. Old leaves ^^^osa, 



"^arly glabrous ,•','.;'; 



'^««rs pedicellate, distant. Tomeutum of the whole plant close or 



'■ather loose, usually rusty 



1- A. pa.nosa, E,m. No. Stlrp. Bee. 7. An nPP-n^^^^^^^^^ 



^>f branches rather stout, terete, covered as well a. ^^^^ y^"\^irg ^i^ed 

 ^'y^es with a woolly tomentum, consisting chiefly of plumose hai^rs mm 



