Lycium. 849 
filaments pilose; lobes rotundate, with a ciliate margin. Stamens 5, 
subequal; filaments glabrous, 2,5—3 mm long; anthers broadly oval, 
1 mm long or shorter. Ovary conical, 1,5 mm long. Style filiform 
toward the tip somewhat thickened, 10 mm long; stigma globose. 
— Flow. December. 
M. ma. In fields near Alexandria (Ascherson). 
Only known from this locality. 
1190. (3.) Lycium europaeum L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p.192. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 288. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. graec., tab. 236. 
— Rchbch. Ic., tab. 15, fig. 1. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
p- 112 no. 759. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 801 no. 189. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 262. — Aschers. Flor. Sirbon., 
p- 812 no. 28. — Lycium mediterraneum Dun. ap. DC. Prodrom. XII, 
fasc. L, p. 513. — A shrub, 2—4 m height, glabrous or pruinose, 
glaucescent. Leaves oblanceolate, oblique, obtuse or acutish. Calyx 
at first equally toothed, then somewhat 2-lipped; corolla violet, lobes 
one-third as long as the tube; stamens included. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Bir-Hammam; Mariut; Montaza; 
Alexandria-West and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; 
Damietta; Brullus. 
Local name: *aneb-ed-dib (Ascherson); ’aqtid (Ascherson). 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
1191. (4.) Lycium arabicum Schweinf. in Boiss. Flor. Or. IV 
(1879), p. 289. Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. ’Eg., p. 112 no. 760. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 261. — Lycium mediterraneum 
Dun. var. 6, ¢ and ¢ Dun. ap. DC. Prodrom. XII, fase. I, p. 524 
to 525. — Branches slender, glabrous or ashy pubescent, spines 
straight. Leaves spathulate-obovate or oblong, glabrous or puberulous, 
5—6 mm long, 1—5 mm wide; petiole up to 5mm long. Flowers 
solitary; peduncle up to 5mm long. Calyx short, tubular, 5 mm 
long, including 5 mm long triangular lobes, ciliate. Corolla blue- 
purple; tube 8 mm long, cylindrical in the lower quarter, then 
gradually widening upwards; lobes 5, oval, obtuse, ciliate, 2,5 mm 
long. Stamens 5, unequal, inserted about the middle of the corolla 
tube, included; filaments glabrous; anthers 1 cm long, shortly api- 
culate. Ovary globose. — Flow. April to March. 
D. i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Common bush in all the Wadies. 
Local name: sahantn (Klunzinger, Schweinfurth); generally: 
’usedj, ausedj. 
Also known from Nubia, Tripolitania, Arabia Petraea and India. 
Muschler, Manual Flora of Egypt. 54. 
