32 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Dunalia. 



vious year : it is probable therefore that the leaves grow to a much 

 larger size than are seen in the above specimen. It comes very- 

 near Acnistus cauliflorus. 



Dunalia. 



Since the last species of this genus were described, I am glad 

 to have had an opportunity of seeing a new and very distinct 

 species belonging to the section Pauciflorte, which I found culti- 

 vated at Kew, under the name of Lycium obovatum. It confirms 

 the views before taken of its structure, founded on an examination 

 of the dried specimens described in the ' Lond. Journ. Bot.' 

 vol. iv. p. 333, and vol. vii. p. 337. 



7. Dunalia lilacina (n. sp.) ; — fruticosa, inermis, ramulis striatis; 

 foliis in axillis fasciculatis, spathulato-oblongis, apice obtusi- 

 usculis aut vix acutis, in petiolum elongatum gracilem attenu- 

 atis, utrinque glaberrimis, margine revolutis, venis superne 

 immersis subtus coloratis ; floribus in fasciculis axillaribus so- 

 litariis, nutantibus, pedunculo gracili, 1-floro, calyceque brevi 

 campanulato 5-nervio glabro, dentibus 5, rotundatis, mucro- 

 natis ; corolla infundibuliformi, lilacina, calyce 6-plo longiore, 

 extus vix puberula, intus superne glabra, imo pubescente, 

 limbo brevissimo, tomentoso, fere integro, dentibus 5-6, acutis, 

 cum alteris fere obsoletis glabris interjectis ; staminibus 5-6, 

 inclusis, quorum 3 paulo brevioribus, filamentis glabris, supra 

 basin insertis, appendicibus brevibus, utrinque bifidis, cano- 

 pubescentibus ; stylo glabro, incluso. — Patria ignota, v. s. in 

 hort. Kew. cult. 



This species approaches very near to D. ramiflora : the inter- 

 nodes are closely approximated, with four to six leaves crowded 

 in each axil; the leaves are 1| inch long, tapering gradually 

 from near the apex into a slender petiole of f of an inch, being 

 altogether 2|-< inches in length, and they are 5 lines in breadth ; 

 the peduncles are only \ inch long, scarcely thickened at the 

 apex ; the calyx is 2 lines long j the corolla 1 inch in length, 2 

 lines in diameter from the base to the middle, whence it gra- 

 dually enlarges to nearly 4 lines in the mouth j the filaments are 

 quite glabrous, arising from fleshy oblong cano-tomentose pro- 

 cesses, with free margins, adnate to the base of the corolla for 

 the length of 1| line; the appendages, which are a continuation 

 of the free margins of the processes, instead of being single and 

 glabrous on each side of the filaments, as in all the other species, 

 are here each bifid, very cano-tomentose, and scarcely a line in 

 length ; the anthers are below the mouth of the corolla, as is also 

 the clavate stigma, which is crowned with two greenish viscid 

 glands. 



