bg7S ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Synonymes. L. tatavicum Pail. Fl. Ross., 1. p.78. t. 49. ; Lycien de la Russie, Fr. 
Engravings. Murr. Comm. Goett., 1779, p. 2. t.2.; and our fig. 1112. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branches dependent. Buds spinescent. —y 1112 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, fleshy, obtuse, attenuated | 
at the base, solitary, or sub-fasciculate. Peduncles 
longer than the calyx. Calyx with 5 unequal teeth. 
Stamens exserted, equal to the limb. Calyx usually 
irregularly 5-toothed, rarely 2—3-lobed, as in L. 
barbarum. Corolla with a white tube and purplish 
limb. Leaves grey, like those of L. afrum. (Don’s 
Mill., iv. p. 458.) A climbing shrub, a native of 
Siberia, in nitrous places; on the Wolga, and in 
Hyrcania; flowering from June till August. It was 
introduced in 1804; and, judging from the plants 
in Messrs. Loddiges’s collection, is scarcely, if at 
all, different from L. europz‘um. 
Variety. 
& L. 7. 2 cdspicum Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 49. f. a.— 
Leaves shorter. Buds more spinose. Flow- 
ers smaller. Native about the Caspian Sea. 
(Don’s Miil., iv. p. 458.) 
6. L. (B.) LANCEOLA’ TUM Poir. The lanceolate-/eaved Box Thorn. 
Identification. Poir. Suppl., oF p. ee sagt Mill., 4. p. 458. i 
Synonyme. L. europe'um #8 Dec. Fl. Fr., No. 2699., Pers. Ench., 1. p.231. No.8, N. Du Ham. 
1. p. 123. t.32., Loud. Hort. Brit., ed. 1829. E ; ; : 
Engraving. N. Du Ham., t. 32. 
Spec. Char., &c. Branches dependent, reflexed. Buds spinescent, Leaves lanceolate, nearly sessile 
acute at both ends. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, pedicellate. Corolla funnel-shaped. Sta. 
mens exserted. Calyx unequally 5-toothed. Corollapurple, with a white bottom. Berry oblong, 
red. (Don’s Miil., iv. p. 458.) A climbing shrub, a native of the south of Europe, particularly of 
Naples, Greece, &c.; where it flowers from May till August. When it was introduced is uncer- 
tain, and we have never seen the plant. 
a 7. L. (2? 5.) truRBinA‘tUM Du Ham. The turbinate-fruited Box Thorn. 
Identification. N. Du Ham., 1. p. 119. t.31. ; Pers. Ench., 1. p. 231., exclusive 
of the synonyme of Lam., No. 3. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 458. 
Synonymes. L. halimifdlium Mell. Dict., No. 6.?; L. barbarum 6 Dec, Fl. 
Fr., No. 2700. 
Engravings. N. Du Ham.,t.351.; and our fig. 1113. 
Spec. Char., &c. Stems erect, fascicled. Branchlets dependent, terete. Buds 
spiny. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, acuminated. Flowers aggregate, pe- 
dicellate, extra-axillary. Corolia funnel-shaped. Stamens exserted. Calyx 
trifid. Berry red, and turbinate. Corolla violaceous, with a white bottom. 
(Don’s Miil., iv. p. 458.) It is a climbing shrub, a native of China, where 
it flowers from May till August. It was introduced in 1709; but we have 
not seen the plant. hough we consider many of the sorts of this genus, 
which are described as species, as only different varieties, it does not follow , 
from that circumstance that each sort may not be tolerably distinct. * 
Wherever plants are raised in great numbers from seed, it is easy to pick 
out from among the seedlings many different varieties, which, if propa 
gated by extension, wil) remain distinct till the end of time. Wemust 
confess, however, that we know of very few genera of ligneous plants, 
indeed, where so many of the different alleged species so very closely 
resemble each other, asin L¥ycium. We have no doubt that by taking 
a dozen plants of any one of the kinds, from numbers 1 to 9 inclusive, and 
placing them in a dozen different climates, soils, and situations, we should 
have a dozen sorts, as well entitled to be considered as species, as most 
of those which are here described as such. 
4 8. L. (28.) rerra’NDRUM Thunb, The tetrandrous-fowered Box Thorn. 
victim inte Prod., p. 37.; Lin. Suppl., 150. ; Thunb. in Lin. Trans., 9. p. 154. t. 15. ; Don’s 
Miil., 4. p. 460. 
Engraving. Lin. Trans., 9. t. 15. 
Spec. Char., &c. Spiny, erect. Branches angular, straight. Leaves fascicled, ovate, obtuse. Flowers 
nearly sessile, Corollas quadrifid, tetrandrous. Stem twisted, glabrous, angular, grey, stiff: 
Branches horizontal, spiny. Leaves a line long. Flowers solitary, rising from the fascicies of 
leaves on short pedicels. Very like L.afrum, but is distinguished from that species in the leaves 
being more fleshy, and in the flowers being tetramerous and tetrandrous. It is also, perhaps, the 
I. capénse of Mill. Dict., No. 7., of which the following description is given : —‘* Leaves oblong.- 
ovate, thickish, crowded. Spines strong, leafy. Leaves scattered, solitary, or fascicled, thick, 
pale green, permanent.” (Don’s Mill, iv. p: 460.) A shrub, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
about Cape Town ; where it grows to the height of 6 ft. or 7 ft., flowering in June and July. It 
was introduced in 1810; but we have not seen the plant. 
