848 Solanaceae. 
compressed; testa _crustaceous, pitted; embryo much curved, near 
the circumference; cotyledons semiterete. — Trees or shrubs, ulti- 
mate branchlets often spiny, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves entire, 
linear to lanceolate, subterete or flat, often in fascicles on rudi- 
mentary branchlets. Flowers usually solitary. 
Species about 50, in) temperate and warm regions throughout the world; 
very common in extra-tropical South America. 
A. Filaments glabrous. 
I. Corolla inside glabrous)... ... . .. 1. L. Schweinfurthii. 
Il. Corolla inside pilouse: 
a) Calyx glabrous or ciliate at the margin 2. L. Aschersonii. 
b) Calyx pilosus. 
1. Corolla-lobes one-third as Tair as 
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2. Corolla-lobes one- Foutth as long as 
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1188. (1.) Lycium Schweinfurthii U. Dammer in Engler’s 
Botan. Jahrb. Beitr. Flora von Afrika XL (1912), p. 224. — Branches 
spiny; spines longer than the leaves. Leaves solitary, fleshy, linear, 
sessile, glabrous, 4—12 mm long, 1—2 mm broad. Flowers solitary 
shortly pedicellate; pedicels 1—2 mm long; calyx cupular, 2 mm 
long, shortly 5-dentate, sinuses rotundate, glabrous, acute, barbate 
at the top; corolla infundibuliform; tube 2 mm long, cylindrical in 
the lower quarter, than gradually widening upwards; lobes 5, 6 mm 
diam., rotundate, obsoletely ciliate at the margin. Stamens 5, un- 
equal, inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube, included; 
filaments glabrous, small, 2 mm long; anthers cordate-ovate, some- 
what mucronulate at. the tip; Ovary conical 1 mm long; style fili- 
form 7 mm long; stigma broad. Berry globose 3 mm in diameter. 
Flow. July. 
M. ma. Alexandria (Schweinfurth). 
Only known from this locality. 
1189. (2.) Lycium Aschersonii U. Dammer in Engler’s Botan. 
Jahrb. Beitr. Flora von Afrika XL (1912), p. 225. — Branches 
greyish, the young branches densely pilose then glabrous, spiny, 
leafy; spines small, 5 mm to 4,5 cm long. Leaves thickly elongate- 
spathulate, nearly sessile, 1—2,5 cm long, 2—5 mm broad. Flowers 
solitary or rarely 2, pedicellate, pendulous, pedicels 3—5 mm long, 
tomentose; calyx cupular 2 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, 5-angulate, 
5-crenate, with ciliate margin; corolla infundibuliform, tube 14 mm 
long, upwards gradually widening, inside half way between the 
