140 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



datis, imo in petiolum brevissimum attenuatis, eveniis ; flori- 

 bus in axillis solitariis, calyce cupuliformi, brevissimo, crassi- 

 usculo, sequaliter et acute 4-dentato; corollse glabra; tubo in- 

 fundibuliformi, limbi laciniis brevibus, latis, reflexis ; stamini- 

 bus 4, subsequalibus, longissime exsertis, filamentis in coarc- 

 tationem tubi insertis, hinc geniculatis et barbatis, uno paullo 

 breviori ; stylo staminibus sequilongo ; ovario disco carnoso 

 adnato, et corolla? reliquo cupuliformi imo circumdato. — Pro- 

 vincia Tucuman Argentinorum. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (Tweedie). 



The leaves are 5 to 7 lines long, 1^ to 2\ lines broad; the 

 peduncle is 2 lines long ; the calyx is \ line long ; the length of 

 the tube of the corolla is 2^ lines, of the segments of its border 

 ^ line : the stamens are 1^ line longer than the tube, and are 

 inserted one-third of the distance from the base*. 



37. Lycium vimineum (n. sp.) ; — inerme, ramulis virgatis, recti- 

 usculis ; foliis 2-3nisve (interdum 5nis) fasciculatis, linearibus, 

 imo in petiolum brevem attenuatis, eveniis ; floribus e fasci- 

 culis 2-3nisve parvulis, calyce 4-dentato pedunculo vix bre- 

 viori, dentibus sequalibus acutis margine ciliatis tubo lsevi, po- 

 culiformi paullo brevioribus ; corollse glabrae carnosulas breviter 

 et late cylindricse tubo paullo supra basin breviter coarctato, 

 hinc subcampanulato, limbi laciniis 4, late subdeltoideis, reti- 

 culato-venosis, tubo tertio brevioribus, reflexis : staminibus 4, 

 gequalibus, exsertis, filamentis paullo supra basin insertis, hinc 

 glabris et geniculatis, mox fasciculatim barbatis, maculis tot- 

 idem pilosis intra tubum alternatim interjectis, stylo staminibus 

 aequilongo. — Prov. Santa Fe Argentinorum. — v. s. in herb. 

 Hook. (Tweedie). 



This is said by Tweedie to be a shrub 12 to 20 feet high, 

 evidently with long, slender, pendent branchlets, growing very 

 plentifully near the town of Santa Fe, on the river Parana : the 

 branchlets are slender, of a light brown colour, smooth and 

 striated. Two, three, or more leaves grow in a fascicle out of 

 each cup-shaped axillary node; they are 10 to 16 lines long, 

 1 or 2 lines broad; two or three flowers spring out of each 

 fascicle of leaves, one after another, at distant periods; the 

 peduncle is 1^ or 1 line long; the smooth cup-shaped calyx is 

 of the same length, and is crowned by four equal triangular 

 teeth with ciliated margins : the corolla is contracted near the 

 base, is broadly campanular above, with fotir short and broad 

 reflected segments, the length of the tube being 2^ lines, and of 

 the segments | line : the stamens, inserted a little above the 



* A drawing of this plant with sectional details is given (loc. cit.) plate 

 69 A. 



