272 LXXXIX. SOLANACE-K. 



The fruit is commonly employed in SiLd, N.W. India, Afghanistan, and Belucbistan 

 as a substitute for rennet to coagulate milk. The seeds, which appear to contain the 

 active ferment, have been the subject oF important experiments by Mr. Lea, of which 

 a full account will be found in Watt's Diet. Econ, Prod. 1. c. 



4. LYCIUM, Linn. 



Spinous usually glabrous shrubs. Leaves sinall, alternate or often 

 fascicled, linear, terete or flat. Pedicels nsually solitary (rarely fascicled 

 at the nodes); flowers sinall. Calyx canipanulate, at first 5-merous, 

 then irregularly 3-5-lobed or 2-lipped, in fruit not or scarcely enlarged. 

 Corolla tubular-infundibuliform ; lobes 5 (rarely 4), imbricate in bud, 

 spreading in flower. Stamens 5 (rarely 4) on the corolla-tube ; anthers 

 exserted or included, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 

 few or many ; style filiforui ; stigma sulicapitate. Berry small, globose 

 or oblong. Seeds many, few, or solitary, compressed, scrobiculate ; 

 embrvo peripheric. — Distbib. Teuiperate and subtropical regions of the 

 world, especially S. Africa and S. America ; species 40. 



1. Lyciuin barbarum, Linn. S/>. PI. (1753) p. 192. A spinous 

 shrub reaching lU it. high ; branches white or grey, armed with sharp 

 conical spines which sometimes elongate and bear leaves and flovA'ers. 

 Leaves very variable, sometimes solitary, oblong-lanceuJate, reaching 

 l|-by l in., more commonly in fascicles and oblong-spathulate or linear, 

 obtuse, attenuated into a short petiole, glabrous or nearly so. flowers 

 solitary or in fascicles of 2-5 ; pedicels filiform, -^-^ in. long. Calyx 

 in flower glabrous, somewhat rugose outside, ^ in. long, cyatbiform, often 

 becoming irregulai ly lobed and sometimes 2-lipped in fruit ; teeth 4-0, 

 oblong, obtuse, about ^L ju. long, with membranous margins. Corolla 

 •2-| in. long, glabrous; lobes Jjj-i in. long, obloig, obtuse. Stamens 

 exserted beyond the corolla-tube ; filaments flat, glabrous at the base ; 

 anthers -^^ in. long, orbicular. Ovary ovoid-oblong, glabrous, seated in 

 a large membranous cup-sliaped disk ; style glabrous, exserted beyond 

 the ( orolla-tube ; stigma musliroom-hended, 2-lamellate. Berry bright- 

 red, ^ in. in diam., seated on the slightly enlarged and often deformed 

 calyx. Seeds j\^ in. in diam., discoid or subreniform, embedded in a soft 

 glutinous viscid pulp, very minutely pitted, orange-vellow. Y\. B. I. 

 y. 4, p. 241 ; Bois. El. Orient, v. 4^, p. 289 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 251 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nab. v, 12 (1898) p. 173. Lychan 

 foUosum & L. depressum, Stocks, in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) 

 p. 179. — Flowers : Nov. 



A variable plant as regards arrangement, size, and shape of leaves, 

 length of corolla, and relative lengths of corolla-tube and lobes. It 

 seems to be hardly separable from Lycium eurojunan, Linn. 



Gujarat: Porbandar (Kathiawar), Con/^'el • Sind : Sfoc/cs; Landhi, near Karachi, 

 C'ooAc !— DisTRiB. India (Fnnjab); Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Persin. 



5. DATURA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs glabrous or minutely pubescent. Leaves large, entire 

 or coarsely sinuate-dentate, l^edicels solitary. Flowers large, purple 

 or white, erect or pendulous. Calyx long-tubular, herbaceous, 5-toolhed ; 

 in fruit circumscissile above the base, the upper part deciduous. Corolla 



