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branches reduced to spines. Leaves elliptical or lanceolate-ellip- 
tical, attenuated at the base into short petioles, subacute, entire. 
Flowers axillary, stalked. Peduncles solitary or 2 or 3 together, 
shorter than the leaves. Calyx 2-lipped, the lips entire or slightly 
2-toothed. Corolla salvershaped-funnelshaped ; tube cylindrical ; 
limb as long as the tube, with 5 oblong obtuse spreading-recurved 
segments. Stamens exserted ; filaments bearded at the base. Fruit 
oval-ovoid, pointed. 
In hedges and waste places. Not native, but quite naturalized 
on the South and South-east coasts. 
[England.] Shrub. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 3 to 6 feet high or more, if it finds support at a greater 
altitude; bark smooth, whitish-grey; branches very numerous, 
glabrous, slender, with lateral excrescences at the nodes : these 
excrescences are frequently elongated into spines or abortive 
branches, or sometimes into short leafy branches at right angles 
to the direction of the main branch, which has 1 or more raised 
longitudinal lines. Leaves varying in size, ^ to 3 inches long, 
spreading, green, rather paler below, with fascicles of small leaves 
in their axils. Flowers \ inch across, purple with a pale-green 
eye with purple streaks when first expanded, but soon fading to 
livid fawn-colour. Stamens inserted in the upper part of the 
corolla- tube ; anthers fawn-colour. Berry bright-red, \ to f inch 
long, the base embraced by the spathe-like calyx. Plant glabroub. 
Tea-plant. 
French, Lyciet de Barbarie. Germau, Genieim r Teufehzuoirn. 
Loudon tells us that tin's plant is commonly called the Duke of Argyll's Tea-tree, 
from the circumstance of a Tea-plant, Tltea viridis, having been sent to the Duke of 
Argyll at the same time as this plant, and the labels having been accidentally changed. 
It is also called Barbary Box-thorn. 
GENUS 111— ATROPA. Linn. 
Calyx 5-partite, persistent, slightly accrescent alter (lowering, 
and becoming rotate in fruit. Corolla regular, bellshaped or 
funnelshapcd-bellshaped ; limb of 5 (rarely 10) short segments, 
imbricated in aestivation. Stamens .">, inserted on the bottom of the 
corolla-tube, sub-exserted ; filaments elongated ; anthers not con- 
nivent, opening by longitudinal slits. Fruit a berry with 2 cells. 
Seeds numerous, sub-reniform. 
Herbs or shrubs, with entire leaves and purple, greenish, or 
white flowers, generally extra-axillary and drooping. 
