194 Mr, J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



triangular teeth, ciliated at their points, but it is afterwards split 

 irregularly into larger segments : the tube of the corolla is 3 lines 

 long, the oblong segments of its border 2| lines ; the filaments 

 arise in the mouth of the basal constriction of the tube, and pre- 

 sent a dense oblong brush of hairs at their geniculated origin, 

 their summits attaining the length of the middle of the segments, 

 two of them being a trifle shorter ; the style far exceeds the length 

 of the stamens : the crimson globular or oval berry is somewhat 

 apiculated, and 5 lines in diameter*. 



**** Filament a imo glandula lineari carnosa margine ciliata 

 donata. Sp. unica. 



59. Lycium ignarum (n. sp.) ; — fruticosum, ramulis longe vir- 

 gatis, dependentibus, angulato-striatis, pallidis, rarissime spi- 

 nescentibus, nodis axillaribus cupulatis ; foliis alternis ternisve, 

 elliptico-oblongis, utrinque subattenuatis, subpallidis, textura 

 tenuibus, nervosis, utrinque sub lente albo-punctulatis, mar- 

 gine obsolete ciliatis, breviter petiolatis; floribus solitariis, 

 longe et gracilente pedunculatis, calyce urceolato, striate, 

 membranaceo, pubescente, sequaliter 5-dentato, dentibus lan- 

 ceolatis, acutis, tubo dimidio brevioribus ; corolla extus pubes- 

 cente, imo densiter tomentosa, sicco pallida, tubo infundibu- 

 liformi, calyce duplo longiore, limbi laciniis 5, reticulato-ner- 

 vosis, staminibus 5 sequalibus, exsertis, filamentis circa basin 

 tubi insertis, hinc geniculatis et glandula adnata oblonga lati- 

 uscula margine ciliata donatis, superne membranaceis, gra- 

 datim angustioribus, vix apicem laciniarum attingentibus ; 

 stylo staminibus sequilongo; stigmate sub-2-labiato. — Patria 

 ignota : an America meridionali? — v. s. in herb. Lindley in hort. 

 Soc. Hortic. cult, sub nomine L. Sinense. 



This plant has much of the habit of L. erosum, and from many 

 peculiar points of analogy, I have little doubt is of South Ame- 

 rican origin. The leaves are 19 lines long and 7 lines broad, 

 the peduncle of the flower 4^ lines, the calyx 2 lines, the teeth 

 being equal in length to the tube, the corolla 6 lines, the tube 

 being 3 lines long, and the segments of the border the same 

 lengthf. 



* A representation of this species with structural details is given (loc. cit.) 

 in plate 71 F. 



t This plant with analytical sections of the flower is shown (loc. cit.) in 

 plate 72 A. 



[To he continued.] 



