LIII. SOLANA CE: CRABO/WSKIA. 669 
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 
uninjured by the winter of 1837-8. 
Other Species of Lycium. — There were in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, in 1838, plants 
named L. ovdtum and L. spatuldtum, but they 
appear to us nothing more than varieties of L. 
barbarum. —L. obovdtum (fig. 1303. from a specimen 
received from the Liverpool Botanic Garden) was 
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 
showy, and the plant has stood against a south 
wall through the winters of 1837, 38, and 39, with- 505. 1. obovatum, 
out any protection. 
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CRABO’WSKIA Schlecht. Tue Crasowsxia. Lin, Syst. Pentandria 
Monogynia. 
Identification. Schlecht. in Linnea, 7. p. 72. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 480. 
Synonymes. L¥cium sp. Lin. ; Ehrétia sp. L’ Hérit. 
Derivation. In honour of Dr. H. Crabowskt, one of the editors of Flora Silestaca. 
Gen. Char. Calyx subcampanulate, regularly 5-toothed, valvular in astiva- 
tion. Corolla with a short, funnel-shaped tube, and a 5-parted limb. Seg~- 
ments of the limb spreading or refiexed, four of which are convolute in 
zstivation, 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. Flowers sub- 
corymbose, from the fascicles of leaves, or the tops of the branchlets ; whitish 
yellow.—A shrub, deciduous, with axiilary spines, rambling, with the habit 
of Lycium; native of Peru. Culture as in Zycium. 
& 1, C. BoERHAAVLEFO‘LIA Schlecht. The Boerhaavia-leaved Crabowskia. 
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 Coffea 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 4 
other two from the sides : sometimes, but only by 
abortion, l-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. © boeshaaviositiv. 
