32 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Dunalia. 
vious year : it is probable therefore that the leaves grow to a much 
larger size than are seen in the above specimen. “Tt comes very 
near Acnistus cauliflorus. 
DuNALIA. 
Since the last species of this genus were described, I am glad 
to have had an opportunity of seeing a new and very distinct 
species belonging to the section Pauciflore, which I found culti- 
vated at Kew, under the name of Lycium obovatum. It confirms 
the views before taken of its structure, founded on an examination 
of the dried specimens described in the ‘ Lond. Journ. Bot.’ 
vol. iv. p. 333, and vol. vu. p. 337. 
7. Dunalia lilacina (u. sp.) ;—fruticosa, inermis, ramulis striatis ; 
foliis in axillis fasciculatis, spathulato-oblongis, apice obtusi- 
usculis aut vix acutis, in petiolum elongatum gracilem attenu- 
atis, utriuque elaberrimis, margine revolutis, venis superne 
immersis subtus coloratis ; floribus in fasciculis axillaribus so- 
litariis, nutantibus, pedunculo gracili, 1-floro, calyceque brevi 
campanulato 5-nervio glabro, dentibus 5, rotundatis, mucro- 
natis ; corolla infundibuliformi, lilacina, caly ce 6-plo longiore, 
extus vix puberula, intus superne glabra, imo pubescente, 
limbo brevissimo, tomentoso, fere integro, dentibus 5-6, acutis, 
cum alteris fere obsoletis glabris imterjectis ; stamimibus 5-6, 
inclusis, quorum 3 paulo brevioribus, filamentis glabris, supra 
basin insertis, appendicibus brevibus, utrinque bifidis, cano- 
pubescentibus ; stylo glabro, incluso.—Patria ignota, v. s. in 
hort. Kew. cult. 
This species approaches very near to D. ramiflora: the inter- 
nodes are closely approximated, with four to six leaves crowded 
in each axil; the leaves are 17 inch long, tapering gradually 
from near the apex into a slender petiole of 3 of an inch, bemg 
altogether 21 inches in length, and they are 5 lines in breadthe 
the peduncles are only } inch long, scarcely thickened at the 
apex ; the calyx is 2 lines long; the corolla 1 inch in length, 2 
lines in diameter from the base to the middle, whence it gra- 
dually enlarges to nearly A lines in the mouth ; fhe Figmentes are 
quite glabrous, arising from fleshy oblong cano-tomentose pro- 
cesses, with fee margins, adnate to the base of the corolla for 
the length of 14 line; the appendages, which are a continuation 
of the free margins of the processes, instead of being single and 
glabrous on each side of the filaments, as in all the other species, 
are here each bifid, very cano-tomentose, and scarcely a line in 
length ; the anthers are below the mouth of the corolla, as is also 
the clavate stigma, which is crowned with two greenish viscid 
glands. 
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