338 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



This is a trailing shrub with long slender pendulous branches, 

 growing in saline places near the sea, and having much the habit 

 of L. pendulinum. The leaves have a saline taste, whence its 

 specific name; they are about 4 lines long, 1 line broad, and 

 veinless ; the peduncle is slender, filiform, 2^ to 3 lines long ; 

 the tubular calyx is 1 line long, smooth, with five unequal, short, 

 pubescent teeth ; the tube of the corolla is If line in length, the 

 segments of the border are somewhat longer, narrow, oblong 

 and subciliated on the margins : the filaments are inserted at a 

 quarter the length of the tube from the bottom, and a little 

 above their smooth geniculated base are furnished with a dense 

 oblong brush of hairs ; they reach the extremity of the segments 

 of the border, and are therefore much exserted when the flower 

 is expanded *. 



62. Lycium Chilense, Miers, Trav. ii. 531 ; Bertero, Mem. Tur. 

 xxxiii. 133. tab. 44; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. 514. L. nu- 

 tans, Pop. L. canum, Gill. MSS. Walp. Rep. iii. 1 12 ; — 

 subinerme, rarissime spinescens, ramulis inermibus pubescen- 

 tibus, angulato-costatis, lineis helvolis e nodis cupularibus 

 utrinque decurrentibus, foliis alternis, raro subfasciculatis, 

 ovatis vel oblongis, ssepe angustis, subacutis, aut interdum 

 obtusiusculis, imo in petiolum brevissimum attenuatis, integris, 

 utrinque breviter pubescentibus, pilis brachiato-articulatis ; 

 floribus solitariis, pedunculo piloso, calyce ad medium aequa- 

 liter 5-fido, utrinque glauco-piloso, dentibus acutis, ciliatis ; 

 corolla extus valde griseo-pubescente, tubo subinfundibuli- 

 formi, 5-sulcato, flavido, paullo supra basin constricto, annu- 

 loque dense barbato cincto, limbi laciniis 5, oblongis, paten- 

 tibus, tubo flavido parum longioribus, intus glabris, versus 

 marginem pallescentibus, centro lilacinis, lineis purpurea 

 notatis ; staminibus 5 e medio tubi ortis, subaequalibus, fila 

 mentis supra geniculum basalem lsevem glandula lineari glabr? 

 margine densiter villosa donatis, et cum fasciculis totidem 

 tubo adnatis alternantibus hinc faucem claudentibus, superm 

 glaberrimis, attenuatis et longe exsertis, ovario tubi circum- 

 scissi reliquo semi-involuto, stylo staminibus paullo longiore, 

 stigmate sub-2-lobo ; bacca ovali, coccinea, apiculata, calyce 

 suffulta. — Chile, prsesertim in litoribus. — v. v/\ 



This may be considered as the type of the many South 

 American species, which form a well-marked group, distin- 

 guished principally by their peculiar brachiate pubescence, the 



* A drawing of this plant with analytical details is given (loc. cit.) in 

 plate 72 C. 



t This plant with sectional details is shown (loc. cit.) in plate 72 D. 



