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— India, erect shrub, stipules spiniformsoft, ft. 

 dull purple. Neither of these is in Persoon&c. 



264. PuKANTifus Raf. (n. ^r.) difl*. Lycium, 

 cal. regularis sinuato 5(lent. filaui. basi barbatis, 

 //. conjmhosis Slc. 



265. Pnkanthus odoratus Raf. I^yc. boer- 

 havif. L. heterophyl. L. Mur. Ehretia ! halimi- 

 folia Lher. — Spinose peruvian shrub put in 2 

 Genera ! and made 2 sp. of Lycium byLinneus? 



260. Oplukion Raf. (armed Lye.) diff. Lye. 

 cal. camp, fdent. eq. cor. infund. limbo erecto 

 genit. incAusa foL fascicid, &c. — Types 2 Afri- 

 can spinose shrubs my OpL afrum and horri- 

 dum^ called Lycium by Authors. 



267. Valteta Raf. (hot.) diff. Lye. cal. urceol. 

 in«q. 5fidus, cor. tubolosa limbo erecto plicato 

 5dentato, genit. exertis, foL sparsis, fl, fuscic, 

 — Types 2 American sp. V, fuchioides and ges- 

 neroides Raf. blended with Lycium by Kunth. 



268. DiPLUKioN Raf. diff. Lye. cor. lOdentata 

 .stam. inclusis— The doubled corolla is very es- 

 sential, 3 American types of Kunth my IJipl. 

 loxense, cornifoL umhrosum. Raf. 



269. AscLEiA Raf. (shut box) Johnsonia 

 Necker 1790 non ali's, an anterior ? diff. Lyci- 

 um, cal. persist. 5dent. eq. corolla rotata 5fida, 

 faux barbata, stam. 5, fruct. caps (Lin.) Akena 

 (Neck) clausa ovata 21oc. — Here the fruit is 

 not even a berry, therefore hardly a Solanides, 

 akin to Sessea with bivalve capsule. 



270. Ascleia mexlcana Raf. Lye. capsulare L. 

 auct. — Ramis teretis spinosis, fob lanceol. gla- 

 bris tenuis, ped. ax. unifl. pubescens — Mexican 

 Shrub, not in Kunth. 



271. Teremis R. (half cut) diff. Lyciuna, cal. 

 2-3fidus ineq. lac. bidentatis, stam. 5, filanv. de- 



