Lycium.| SOLANACEAE. 309 
1/2 its length. Anthers protruding. Style as Fp: as the tube. Berry 
globose, 2—3“ in diameter, dryish, pale yellow 
On dry forehills. Oahu! Waianae ae, PeDERS 3 auai! Waimea, leaves emarginate at the 
rt coriaceous, with ochraceous tomentum; calyx and corolla tomentose, the latter 
riaceous, with narrow lobes; Molokai! Kalae, leaves ovate acute; Lanai! leaves 
tices, short, sometimes suborbicular 
8 var. — Leaves broadly ovate, the larger ones 8 X 5‘, with simuate 
margins, sometimes subcordate, rather thin, pubescent along ribs and 
nerves; the calyx and corolla as above 
aui! Ulupalukua and Hama 
4. N. subcordatum, pan Enum. no. 330. — A tree, 20—30 ft. high. 
Leaves ovate or cordate, 3—5‘ < 2—4‘, on petioles of 11/s—1%/s‘, bluntly 
acuminate, thick coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers clustered, but often only 
ingle one developed, on pedicels of 2—2'/2". yx 2—4", glabrous, 
bstekide te with flower, globose with fruit but not closed over it. 
Corolla exserted, silky, yellow, its tube 4—5“, the limb half as long and 
4—5- lobed. 
Oahu! ravines of Kaala and Wailupe. 
3. LYCIUM, L. 
Calyx 5- or 4-toothed or lobed, persistent but scarcely enlarged after 
flowering. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, with a small spreading or cam- 
panulate 5- or 4-lobed limb, the lobes imbricate in the bud. Stamens inserted 
on the middle of the tube or lower; the anthers shorter than the filaments, 
Opening lengthwise. Disk annular or cupul Ovary 2-celled, the cells 
many-ovuled. Style filiform, with a shortly bilamellate stigma. Fruit a 
com 
mbryo curved round eats albumen. — Shrubs, often thorny. Lea 
usually small, entire, often fasciculate on short spurs. Flowers * ieatiale, 
solitary or clustered in the axils a — or at the old nodes. 
A genus of 60— “ species, chiefly of e ropical America and 8S. Africa, with a few 
species ‘dispersed over the warmer regions ae the Old World. 
fee tect Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. VI, 44. — An erect shrub, 
2—8 ft. high, with stiff branches, glabrous. Leaves mostly fasciculate, 
— spathulate, about 1/ long and 3” broad near the rounded apex, 
thence narrowing gradually to the slender base, not distinctly stalked, 
i —6". Calyx 1'/2—2", cleft 
into 4 triangular lobes. Corolla glabrous, whitish or pink, its tube not 
exceeding the calyx, the 4 lobes longer, about 3”, ovate, spreading, 
reticulate-veiny. Filaments naked. Berry globose, 4—5“ in diameter, 
ahu! alo ‘ the seacoast, a, Kapalama, Diamond, Hill, Wailupe, 
Nii Honolul 
Kailua, Relaba.: probably also on otne islands. Nat. names: «Aeae» and «Ohelo kai». 
The is edible but not very palata 
