10 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



four' flowers, the peduncles of which are 4 lines in length : in all 

 of these the corolla had fallen off, leaving the ovary encircled by 

 its induvial cup and the persistent calyx. 



3. Lycium Indicum, R. Wight, Icon. tab. 1403 ; — glaberrimum, 

 ramis flexuosis, ramulis divaricatis, apice spinescentibus, vel 

 abbreviatis, spinosis, spinis inferioribus nudis ; foliis e gem mis 

 fasciculatis, vel alternis, spathulato-oblongis, imo anguste 

 cuneatis, sessilibus ; floribus (in specimine) subsolitariis (in 

 icon. cit. fasciculatis), calyce pedicello subsequilongo, tubuloso, 

 5-costato, dentibus cum costis continuis, sinubus rotundatis 

 demum imequaliter fissis : corolla (sicca) pallide flava, infundi- 

 buliformi, tubo calyce 4-plo longiore, glabro, limbi laciniis 

 rotundis, ciliatis, tubo 4to brevioribus : staminibus glabris, 

 valde insequalibus, paullo supra basin tubi insertis, quorum 

 2 inclusis, 3 subexsertis ; stylo exserto : bacca globosa, pisi 

 magnitudine, apiculata, seminibus paucis. — Penins. Indise 

 Orientalis. — v. s. in herb. Hook. Guzzerat et Scinde (Stocks, 

 n. 112; Dr. Thomson, n. 57). 



In this very distinct species the leaves vary considerably in 

 form ; Dr. Wight received his specimens from Dr. Stocks, and 

 from the notes accompanying it, this distinguished botanist was 

 led to infer that it might be only a variety of L. Europceum : in 

 those notes Dr. Stocks talks of its bearded stamens, evidently 

 confounding his own specimens with another species growing in 

 Scinde. In Dr. Thomson's plant the leaves are fasciculated, 

 obovate-lanceolate, 4 to 6 lines long, 1 to \\ line broad; the 

 peduncle is 1 line long; the calyx, 1| line in length, is tubular, 

 with long obtuse teeth ; the corolla is contracted below, its tube 

 being smooth and 4 lines long, its border having five rounded 

 ciliated segments 1 line in diameter ; the membranaceous fila- 

 ments are quite smooth and included, two of them measuring 

 2 lines, the other three 3 lines ; the style is 4 lines in length ; 

 the ovary, supported by a closely adnate gland, is surrounded at 

 its base by the induvial cup of the corolla. The specimens from 

 Guzzerat have leaves 12 lines in length and 4 lines in breadth ; 

 those from Scinde are obovate or oblong, 8 lines long, 3 to 4 

 lines broad : the pedicels, one or two in each axil, are 2 lines in 

 length*. 



4. Lycium oxycarpum, Dun. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 518. Lycium 

 Afrum, Drege. — C. B. S. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (Drege). 



The specimen above quoted is certainly distinct from L. Afrum ; 

 it is entirely smooth, with large knotted glands in the axils, out 



* This species with analytical details is seen (loc. cit.), plate 64 C. 



