MACLOSKIE : SOLANACEyE. 



701 



Shrub, with densely intricate branches, more or less thick and densely 

 nodulose ; the nodules tuberculiform, elliptical. Leaves fasciculate, linear- 

 spatulate, obtuse, their base long-cuneate, sessile. Flowers few-gregarious 

 or solitary in the leaf-fascicles. Pedicel glabrous, just exceeding the small 

 calyx. Corolla lilac, broad funnelform, at least four times as long as the 

 calyx. Style long, exsert. 



S. Patagon., by Lago Argentine. 



2. LYCIUM AMEGHINOI Speg. 



Brachycope, perennial spinose shrub, with the nodes of the branches 

 scarcely prominent. Leaves fasciculate, oblanceolate, attenuate both ways, 

 thickish, glabrous. Flowers few gregarious, shortly pediceled. Corolla 

 white, twice as long as the calyx, glabrous. 



Patagon., by Golfo de San Jorge. 



3. L. CAPILLARE Miers. 



Shrubby, unarmed; branches virgate, very slender, horizontally divari- 

 cate, white-pubescent, with pale yellow lines decurrent from the nodes on 

 both sides. Leaves fascicled (5 to 8), capillary-linear, finely pubescent, 

 fleshy (8 by % mm.). Flowers solitary, small, on slender peduncles. Calyx 

 small, cup-like, 5-striate and 5-toothed, the teeth glabrous, acute. Corolla- 

 tube 5-sulcate, the limb with 5 oblong segments, ciliolate. Stamens equal, 

 exserted, glabrous. Berry the size of a 

 small pea, red, supported by the cleft calyx. 

 (Argentina) ; N. Patagon. 



FIG. 90. 



4. L. CHUBUTENSE Dusen. 



Armed. Shrub, i m. high, much branch- 

 ing; the cortex pale gray, subrimose-glan- 

 dular on young branchlets, which become 



Spines. Leaves Small, Solitary On the Spines, Lyrium chubutense, flowering branch, 



Or fasciculate, attenuate, sessile below, natural size; also magnified flower (on 



,, , . , .., ,-,, right). Also L. durispina, flower (on 



mostly clavate, entire, glanduhferous. Flow- left) and calyx (be i w). (After Dusen.) 

 ers solitary in the leaf-fascicles, short-pedi- 



celed, with glandular hairs. Calyx subcylindrical, 5-lobed to the middle ; 

 its lobes narrow and slightly reflexed. Corolla funnelform, with cylin- 



