Lycium.~\ xci. solanace^e (wright). 255 



ciliolate, f lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, from yellowish to violet, 

 veined, glabrous outside, glandular-bearded in the throat, deeply cleft 

 down one side ; lobes 5, rounded, about ^ in. long. Stamens 5, rather 

 shorter than the corolla, unequal ; filaments hairy towards the base. 

 Style slightly longer than the stamens, shortly cleft at the apex. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; on elevated maritime rocks covered 

 with blown sand, near Cabo Negro, Welwitsch, 6024 ! 



3. L. arenicolum, Miers in Ann. <£• Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 

 14. A much -branched shrub, 9 ft. high; branches glaucous, purplish, 

 with decnrrent ridges from the cupular nodes. Leaves sessile in 

 fascicles of 5-10, linear, 5-7 lin. long, i lin. broad, acute, rather fleshy. 

 Flowers solitary on very short peduncles, 4-merous. Calyx 1 lin. long, 

 shortly and unequally 4-toothed ; teeth ciliate. Corolla about 2^ lin. 

 long, tubular ; lobes 4, oblong, ciliate, |- lin. long. Stamens unequal, 

 inserted a little above the corolla-base, 1 slightly exserted, 2 reaching 

 the throat, the 4th included ; filaments hirsute at the base. Ovary 

 ovoid, adnate to the red fleshy disk ; style exserted ; stigma capitate. — 

 111. S. Amer. PI. ii. t. 65, fig. E ; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. 

 ii. 115. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; near Kwebe, Lngard, 70 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



7. OESTRUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 904. 



Calyx campanulate, 5dobed, valvate. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 

 elongate, cylindrical or slightly dilated above, contracted at the base 

 around the ovary ; lobes 5, induplicate-valvate. Stamens included, fixed 

 near the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments filiform, pilose, incras- 

 sate or with a small tooth near the base; anthers short, cells parallel. 

 Disk inconspicuous or rather thick. Ovary usually slightly stalked, 

 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma dilated ; ovules 3-6 in each cell, micro- 

 pyle inferior. Berry slightly fleshy, indehiscent, globose, ovoid or 

 oblong. Seeds few or by abortion solitary, oblong, nearly smooth ; 

 embryo straight or slightly curved ; cotyledons either ovate or oblong 

 and much broader than the radicle, or semiterete and scarcely wider 

 than it. — Shrubs or trees, glabrous to stellately tomentose. Leaves 

 alternate, quite entire. Inflorescence axillary, cymose or fascicled ; 

 upper cymes usually corymbose or panicled at the apices of the branches, 

 or nearly all lateral at leafless nodes. 



Species about 160, Tropical American. 



1. C. vespertinum, Linn. Mant. Alt. 206. A much-branched 

 glabrous shrub, 12-1 5 ft. high. Leaves oblong, acute, submembranous, 

 4 in. long, 1^ in. wide. Flowers in axillary subspicate shortly peduncled 

 clusters. Calyx campanulate, truncately 5-lobed. Corolla greenish- 

 yellow ; tube filiform, ^-j in. long ; lobes narrow, J in. long. Berry 

 ovoid. — Jacq. Hort. Schcenbr. iii. 43, t. 328 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. i. 661. C.jamaicense, J-i&m.. Encycl. i. 687. 



Lower Guinea. Princes Island : Barter, 1975 ! St. Thomas Island, Mann, 

 1080! 



Probably introduced from the West Indies, where it is common. 



