Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 19 



19. Lycium tetrandrum, Thunb. Linn. Trans, ix. 154. tab. 15 ; 

 Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. 516. Lycium horridum, Thunb. 

 loc.cit. 152. tab. 17; Dunal, loc.cit. 516; — intricato-ramosis- 

 simum, spinosum, ramulis patentibus, nodulosis, foliis e nodis 

 fasciculatis, obovatis, vel elliptico-oblongis, basi in petiolutn 

 brevissimum attenuatis, crassiusculis, glabris; floribus 4-meris 

 in fasciculis solitariis, pedunculo brevissimo, calyce poculi- 

 formi, glabro, 4-costato, 4-dentato, dentibus brevibus ciliatis, 

 corolla glabra, infundibuliformi, limbi laciniis rotundatis, 

 margine ciliatis, tubo 4to brevioribus; staminibus 2 longi- 

 oribus exsertis, 2 alternis faucem attingentibus, filamentis 

 longe supra medium insertis, hinc geniculars, nudis, et cum 

 fasciculis totidem pilorum tubo adnatis alternis, mox globula 

 pilorum donatis, superne glabris. — C.B.S — v. s. in herb. Hook. 

 [Drege, 7872). — Uitenhage [Harvey, no. 865). — In herb, meo, 

 Uitenhage [Harvey, no. 1034, sub nomine Lycium horridum). 



Upon the same sheet in Sir Wm. Hooker's herbarium I find 

 four specimens of Drege' s collection, all fragments and very bare 

 of leaves ; two of these agree with the figure of Thunberg's 

 L. tetrandrum, the others, evidently younger branchlets, answer 

 to his L. horridum ; the structure of the flowers being exactly 

 alike in both. I cannot perceive, in the copious descriptions of 

 these two species by M. Dunal above quoted, anything that can 

 constitute valid differential characters; we may therefore con- 

 sider them as identical, as Sprengel long ago determined (Syst. 

 i. 700). The older leaves are fleshy, 3 lines long and \ line 

 broad ; the younger leaves are obovate, 2 lines long : in Dr. Har- 

 vey's specimen the leaves are obovate, spathulate, 7 lines long, 

 2| lines broad; the peduncle is 1^ line, the calyx 1 line, the 

 tube of the corolla 3 lines, the segments of its border \ or f line 

 long*. 



20. Lycium tenue, Willd. ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. 515. — Pro 

 char. flor. cl. Dunalii substit. ; — pedunculo calyce paullo lon- 

 giore, calyce glabro, tubuloso, reticulato, subsequaliter 5-den- 

 tato, dentibus brevibus ciliatis ; corollse tubo infundibuliformi 

 imo coarctato, calyce 3plo longiore, limbi laciniis 5 erectis, 

 tubo 3plo brevioribus, kevibus, staminibus valde inrequalibus, 

 infra medium tubi insertis, 2 longioribus multo exsertis, 1 me- 

 diano faucem attingente, 2 brevioribus inclusis ; filamentis imo 

 glabris et geniculars, mox fasciculo globoso pilorum barbatis, 

 hide glabris. — C. B. S. — v. s. in herb. Hook. [Drege, sub nomine 

 L. tenue.) 



* An outline of this species and section of its flower is shown {loc. cit.), 

 plate (if) F. 



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