CHAP, LXXXIV. SOLANA CEE, LY’CIUM. 1269 
S. beticeum Cav., Bot. Rep., t.411., is a native of South America, from which country it was in- 
troduced into Britain in 1803. It forms a splendid shrub, 10 ft. or 12 ft. high, and produces egg-shaped 
fruit, of a deep crimson colour. The fruit are about the size and shape of magnum bonum plums, 
and hang down in clusters of three or four together. (Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 105.) A plant of this 
species in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, in 1816, produced leaves nearly a foot in length, and half a 
foot in breadth ; giving out, when handled, an odour resembling that of the bruised wood of S. Dul- 
camara. ‘This species resembles, in its free habit of growth, 
Brugmans/a suaveolens; and it is observed by a correspondent 
of the Gardener’s Magazine, that it is likely to thrive and flower 
under the same treatment as that plant. The same writer adds, 
“* did the plants of S. betaceum, when planted out, produce only 
a copious clothing of such leaves, they would, in themselves, be 
striking, and impart an additional tropical feature to the British 
flower-garden.” (Ibid., p. 155.) The plants of this species in the 
Bristol Nursery are said to be somewhat different from that 
figured in the Botanical Repository. (Ibid., p. 269.) , 
S. anguidtum R. et S., Dun. Sol, 2. 95. t. 1, is a native of .-& 
Lima, introduced in 1825. It has large angulated prickly leaves, ~ 
with purple veins and petioles. Preserved through the winter , 
in a stove, and turned out in the spring, it makes a splendid ~~~ 
appearance in the flower border. 
. marginitum W., Bot. Mag., t. 1928., is a native of Africa, 
and forms an evergreen shrub, 4 ft. or 5 ft. high., striking from 
the mealy whiteness of its leaves. 
S. Pseido-Ctipsicum L., Capsicum Amdmum Pliniz Gerard, 
is a native of Madeira, an old inhabitant of our green-houses. 
It grows 4 ft. or 5 ft. high, and produces red, or yellowish fruit, 
about the size of cherries. Gerard says, “‘ it is a rare and pleasant 
plant, kept in pots and tubs in green-houses during the extremity 
of winter, and set abroad in March and April.” 
S. sodibmeum L., the apple of Sodom, is a native of different 
parts of Africa, and also of Sicily, and the south of Italy. It is 
a shrub, with numerons short and thick branches, armed with 
many spines. The leaves are above 4in. long, and 2in. broad. 
The flowers are blue, and the berries yellow, as large as walnuts. 
It abounds, along with Spartium infestum Pres/, on the coast 
of Calabria, and at the foot of Mount Etna. (Comp. Bot. Mag., 
1. p. 95.) 
S. ligustrinum Lodd, Bot. Cab., t. 1963., and our fig. 1107., is 
a native of Chili, introduced by Mr. Cumming in 1831, and 
flowering in a sheltered border from May to September. It is a 
free-growing shrub, readily propagated by cuttings; and judging 
from the plant in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, from which our 
figure was taken, we should think it tolerably hardy, 
Genus II. 
Ane 
LY’CIUM L. Tue Box Tuorn. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 1262.; Lam. Ill, t. 112.; H. B. et Kunth Nov. Gen. Amer., 5. p. 50. ; 
Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 295.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 457. 
Synonymes. Jasmindides Niss. in Act. Gall., Lill, Mich. Gen., 224. t.105.; Matrimony Vine, 
Amer.; Lycien, Fr.; Bocksdorn, Ger. One species, L. barbarum, is commonty called the Duke 
of Argyll’s tea tree, from the circumstance of a tea plant (7éa viridis) having been sent to the 
Duke of Argyll at the same time as this plant, and the labels having been accidenially changed. 
Derivation. Derived from Lycia, in Asia Minor ; hence the dukion of Dioscorides ; a name given by 
him toa thorny shrub, which was supposed by Dr. Sibthorp to have been the Rhamnus infectdrius, 
but which Mr. Royle, with greater probability, regards as identical with a species of Bérberis, 
which he has denominated Bérberis L¥cium. 
Description, §c. Thorny rambling shrubs, in general producing long slender 
shoots, and assuming the character of climbers. Natives of Europe, Asia, 
Africa, and America. Hedges may be formed of the first nine sorts. 
4 1, ZL. europx‘um LZ. The European Box Thorn. 
Identification. Lin. Syst., 228.; Mant., p.47.; Willd. Enum., 1. p. 246.; Sibth. et Smith Fl. Gree., 
t. 236.; Don's Mill., 4. p. 458.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. : 
Synonymes. _L. salicifdlium Mill. Dict., No.3., Mich. Gen., p. 224, t. 105. f.1., Mill. Icon., t. 171. 
f.2.; Jasminéides aculeatum Mich. 
Engravings. Mich. Gen., t. 105. f. 1. 5 Mill. Icon., t. 171. f. 2. ; and our jig. 1108. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches erect, loose. Buds spinescent. Leaves fascicled, 
obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, or spathulate, bent obliquely. Flowers twin or 
solitary. Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens exserted, but shorter than the 
limb. Calyx 5-cleft, ruptured at the side. Corollas pale violet, reticulated 
with red veins; tube greenish. (Don’s Mill., iv. p.458.) A rambling 
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