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well deserves a place in every collection against a 

 wall. There are large and handsome plants, on a 

 wall, in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, which were 

 uninjnred by the winter of 1837-8. 



Other Species of Li/cium. There were in the 

 Horticultnral Society's Garden, in 1838, plants 

 named L. ovdtum and L. spatuldtum, bnt they 

 appear to us nothing more than varieties of L. 

 barbarum. L, obovdtum (Jig. 1303. from a specimen 

 received from the Liverpool Botanic Garden) wag 

 raised there from a seed which Mr. Shepherd picked 

 from a dried specimen received from Peru in 

 1836. The flowers are of a dark purple and very 

 showv, and the plant has stood against a south 

 wall through the winters of 1837, 38, and 39, with- 

 out any protection. 



Genus III. 



303. f,. oboTatum. 



CRABO'WSKU Schlecht. The Crabowskia. Lin. Syst. Pentandria 



Monogynia. 



Identification. Schlecht. in Lhinsea, 7. p. 72. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 480. 



Synonymes. X^cium sp. Lin. ; Ehretia sp. L'Herit. 



Derivation. In honour of Dr. H. Crabowski, one of the editors of Flora Silesiaca. 



Gen. Char. Calyx subcampanulate, regularly 5-toothed, valvular in aestiva- 

 tion. Corolla with a short, funnel-shaped tube, and a 5-parted limb. Seg- 

 ments of the limb spreading or reflexed, four of which are convolute in 

 aestivation, the fifth external, with the margins covering the edges of those 

 near it. Stamens 5. Filaments free. Drupe propped by the permanent 

 calyx. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; entire. Floivers sub- 

 corymbose, from the fascicles of leaves, or the tops of the branchlets ; whitish 

 yellovv'. A shrub, deciduous, with axillary spines, rambling, with the habit 

 of iycium ; native of Peru. Culture as in Z jcium. 



1 1. C. B0ERHAAV7^F0^i/.4 Schlecht. The Boerhaavia-leaved Crabowskia. 



Identification. Schlecht. in LinniEa, 7. p. 72. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 480. 



Synonymes. iycium boerhaavM:/i')^H/? Lin. Suppl. p. 150.; V.hretia ha\xmiKi\a L'Herit. Stirp. 1. 



p. 45. t. S3.; Liciuni heterophyllum Murr. Cumni. Gb'tt. 1783 p. 6. t. 21.; Jasminoldes spintisum 



Du Ham. Arb. 1. p. 306. No. 5. ; Lycium panicule, Fr. 

 Engravings. L'Herit. Stirp., 1. 1. 83. ; and our^^. 1304. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves coriaceous, glaucescent, with 

 a saltish bitterish taste. Corolla white, having the 

 throat veined with green. Stamens white. Stigma 

 green. Nuts the form of those of Cq/fea arabica, 

 convex on one side, marked by a slender furrow in 

 the middle, obtuse at top, and perforated by two 

 roundish holes at the base : hence it is tridentate, 

 the first tooth from the middle of the back, the 

 other two from the sides : sometimes, but only by 

 abortion, 1-celled. Albumen copious, fleshy, (Don's 

 Mill.) A rambling deciduous shrub. South of 

 Brazil, in woods. Height 6 ft. Introduced in 1780. 

 Flowers white ; April and May 



The whole plant has a mealy white appearance ; by 1304. c iMerhviw/wio. 



