LYCIUM. 
101 
Nat. (ed. 12) ii. 177 ; Lam. Diet. iii. 510. no. 4 (at least the 
svn. and most of descr.) ; 111. no. 2266; Desf. i. 196; Brot. i. 
284 ; Pers. i. 231 ; FI. Gr. iii. 30, t. 236 ; Spr. i. 700 ; Koch 
583 ; Rchb. in WB. iii. 286 (quoad pi. ex ins. Palma) ; Bucli 
Can. List, 175. no. 51 (do. do.) ; Miers Illustr. ii. 95, t. 64 B ; 
Gren. et Godr. ii. 542; Willk. et Lange ii. 532. L. mediter- 
raneum Dun. in DC. xiii. 1. 523. sect. 1 breviflorum (excl. sect. 
2 longiflorum ) . L. maderense Miers! ‘’Ins. Madera Lemann 
552 ” (i. e. no. 552 L. europceum ? MS. Lowe) v. quoad spec. 
Lycii omnia Maderae et Portus S t5 in HIL “ L. salicifolium 
Mill. Diet. no. 3.” Jasminoides aeuleatum Salicis folio , Jin re 
parvo ex ulbo purpurascente Michel. PI. Nov. Gen. 224, t. 105. 
f. 1. Oestrum scandens Bowd. ! Exc. in Mad. 91 (not .Vahl, 
Pers.). — Shr. per. Mad., PS., reg. 1, |. Here and there in de- 
tached bushes near the sea all along the S. coast of Mad., e. g. 
at the Praia formosa, on the roads to S. Martinho and S. Amaro, 
at Callieta, Paul do Mar &c., and to the eastward beyond S ta 
Cruz towards the cemetery, and near the sea-cliff salt-spring on 
the Penedo do Saco (P ta de S. Louren^o) ; in PS. forming a 
hedge along the lane from the landing-place up to the town 
and used for fences generally in the whole sandy district about 
the town. Apr. or May-Dec. ; fr. March-May. — A stiff erect 
moderately thorny shr. 2-5 ft. high with scant foliage and pale 
bleached or whitish stout firm straight rigid hard tliickish 
knobbed or knotted both laterally spinose and terminally spi- 
nescent erect or erecto-patent rarely horizontal branches ; the 
more vigorous young shoots elongate and subarcuately erecto- 
patent (not declining) round (not angular) purplisli-v. or lilac 
and often slightly pruinose or mealy towards their ends. L. 
more or less fleshy pale dull leaden or greyish mealv-gr. alter- 
nate and solitary at first on the new shoots, fascicled on the 
spurs or knobs of the older branches, mostly ^-1^ in. long (in- 
cluding petiole), 2-4 lines wide. Axillary spines at first short 
(3-6 lines) stout strong woody pungent erect or erecto-patent, 
ultimatelv horizontal and half to an inch or more long. FI. 1 
or 2 together from the axils of 1. or short axillary spurs or 
knobs, erect or drooping f in. long, each on its own short 
slender mealy or mealy-puberulous angular pedic. which is 1-3 
lines long and a little thickened upwards; the whole much 
shorter than the 1. Cal. cup-shaped, 1 line long, fleshy not at 
all scarious, gr. smooth or mealy-puberulous, with 5 shallow 
slightly unequal or irregular teeth, not distinctly bilabiate but 
with 2 shorter or more obsolete than the other 3, and split 
sometimes partly down on one side. Cor. 5-6 lines long, regu- 
larly narrow-infundibuliform, altogether pale greyish lavender-b. 
with dark reticulating veins and nerves, turning as it withers 
pale brown, the tube furry-puberulous downwards within, 
throat naked, the 5 lobes spreading (not reflexed) equal broad 
