14 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lyciura. 



lines broad; the peduncles are 6 lines long; the tubular calyx 

 2 lines, the tube of the corolla 8 or 9 lines, the segments are 

 1 to 1^ line long*. 



10. Lycium hirsutum, Dun. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 521. — C. B. S. — 

 v. s. in herb. Hook. (Drege) 7866 b). Graham's Town {Ruther- 

 ford). 



This is well distinguished by the rather dense pubescence 

 which clothes the stemlets, the spines and the leaves. In Drege' s 

 specimen the leaves are elliptic, oblong, acute, attenuated at the 

 base into a slender petiole of one-third the length of the blade ; 

 the total length being 9 to 12 lines, and their breadth 3 or 4 lines. 

 The specimen from Graham's Town is much more branched, the 

 branchlets and spines are nearly at right angles and densely 

 beset with clusters of leaves : here the petiole is nearly obsolete, 

 the leaves are only 3 or 4 lines long and 1| or 2 lines broad : 

 the flowers, upon an extremely short peduncle, are nearly sessile : 

 the tubular and very pubescent calyx is larger than in the other 

 specimen, its tube being 2 lines, and its nearly equal linear teeth 

 being widely spread and 1 or 1 \ line long : the tube of the 

 corolla is 4 lines long, nearly cylindrical, with a border of five 

 rounded oblong segments, ciliated on the margins, nearly a line 

 in length : the stamens are nearly equal in length, inserted con- 

 siderably below the middle of the tube, hirsute for about one- 

 fourth their length, and reach the mouth : the flowers in this 

 specimen are in a bad condition j\ 



11. Lycium arenicolum (n. sp.) ; — spinosum, glaberrimum, ramis 

 costato-angulatis, ramulis superioribus elongatis, subvirgatis, 

 inferioribus in spinis nodosis abbreviatis, nodis osseis, nitidis, 

 cupulatis, utrinque lateraliter in costis decurrentibus ; foliis 

 creberrime fasciculatis, sessilibus, linearibus, carnosulis, acutis; 

 floribus4-meris efasciculis solitariis, brevissimis, pedunculatis, 

 calyce insequaliter 4-dentato, dentibus ciliatis ; corolla parva, 

 tubulosa, limbi laciniis 4 oblongis, ciliatis, tubo tertio brevi- 

 oribus ; staminibus inajqualibus, paullo supra basin insertis, 1 

 parum exserto, 2 faucem attingentibus, quarto breviori incluso, 

 iilamentis basi hirsutulis ; ovario induvio corollse circumdato, 

 et disco carnoso rubro arete adnato suffulto ; stylo apice in- 

 crassato exserto. — C. B. S. — v. s. in herb. Hook. ; in arenosis ad 

 Orange River (Burke). 



This plant has greatly the habit and appearance of L. tenue, 



* A figure of this species with sectional details is given (loc. cit.), 

 plate fi5 C 



t This species with sectional drawings is represented (loc. cit.) in 

 plate 65 D. 



