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7. Withania ramosa, Dun. isLarn«a;ra)reosa!, nob. Agreeing with this 



genus in the similarity of its inflores- 

 cence and structure of its flowers and 

 its red berries enclosed in an inflated 

 calyx, and the country of its origin. 



8. sordidajDnn. ^ Larnax sordida, uoh. Referrible to this 



genus for the same reasons. 



11. pulvinata, Dxin. =Salpichroma pulvinatum, noh. From the 



details given of it evidently belonging 

 to this genus. 



12. coagulans. Dun. = Puneeria coagulans, Stokes. 



The genus Lyciurn differs from all true Solanacece in the very 

 imbricated aestivation of its corolla, as frequently pointed out, 

 but this character has not been considered by M. Dunal as of any 

 value, for he constitutes a section of this genus {Schistocalyx) 

 out of two species where the corolla has apparently a valvate 

 aestivation. The first species is the Lycium ciliatum, Schl., a 

 plant referred by me on this very account to Salpichroma (Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. iv. 329). As this reference has not been confirmed 

 either by Dr. Sendtner or M. Dunal, it is necessary that I should 

 repeat my reasons for the above conclusion. The habit of the 

 plant, as described by Prof. Schlechtendal, is quite as much that 

 of Salpichroma as that of Lycium ; in both cases the axils of its 

 branches, after the fall of its leaves, become nodose ; the stems 

 are angular, from the salient lines decurrent from the points of 

 insertion of the petioles ; the exserted stamens are in like man- 

 ner often densely villous at the points of their origin. It differs 

 however from Lycium in its calyx being divided nearly to the 

 base into five very long linear segments, densely ciliated with 

 glandular hairs, and which increases in size with the fruit; 

 the corolla, nearly twice the length of the calyx, is funnel- 

 shaped, with five reflexed subtriangular segments, which are 

 glandularly ciliated on their margins, indicating a valvate or a 

 plicato-valvate aestivation as in Oestrum : these segments in Lycium 

 are invariably broad and rounded in their form, overlapping one 

 another by their margins, of thin texture, which are almost always 

 glabrous, except in a few cases where they are fringed with simple 

 ciliate hairs : the berry is red, supported by its erect persistent 

 calyx, the lobes of which exceed it in length, while in Lycium the 

 berry is supported on its small unchanged cupshaped 5-toothed 

 calyx, not one-fourth or one-sixth the length of the fruit. These 

 are all characters of Salpichroma and not of Lycium, and although 

 certainly we have not positive evidence, we have every fair indi- 

 cation that the plant in question belongs to the former rather 

 than to the latter genus. This subject will be again considered 

 in a review I have prepared of the genus Lycium. ♦ 



Another singular medley of incompatible genera, lesulting 

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