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LXXXVI. SOLANACE.E. 
[Lycium. 
long. Flowers usually solitary at the nodes, on short recurved pedicels. Calyx 
scarcely 1 line long, with minute teeth. Corolla white (F. r. M.), about 5 lines 
long, the tube rather slender, gradually dilated upwards, with 5 rarely 4 ovate 
obtuse lobes of about 1 line in length. Filaments inserted near the base of the 
tube, the longest nearly as long as the corolla, hairy to about the middle. Berry 
bright-red ( Fraym . i. 243), ovate, few or many-seeded, 4 lines long ; seeds 
yellowish, almost 1 line, ovate or renato-orbicular (Fraym. ii. 179). 
Hab.: Diamantina. Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft. 
The species has entirely the aspect of some of the small-leaved S. African ones. 
2. :: L. chinense (of China), Mill.; Benth FI. AusL\ i v . 457 ; Dun. in 
DC. Prod, x iii., part i. 510, which includes L. vulgare, Dun. l.c. 509 ; Miers, 
Illustr. ii. 120, t. 70. A tall glabrous shrub, with long, weak, recurved or 
pendulous branches. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 4 to lin. long or even 
longer. Corolla with a very short tube and deeply-lobed campanulate limb, the 
lobes about 3 lines long. Stamens exserted. Berries ovoid or shortly oblong, 
orange-red. 
Hab.: Toowoomba and Brisbane. 
3. : L. europaeum (of Europe), Linn. Boxthorn. A spinous nearly 
glabrous shrub. Leaves linear-oblong, about lin. long. Pedicels shorter or 
equalling the calyx. Calyx about 14 line, often sub bilabiate, teeth seldom less 
than 5. Corolla 4in. long, from purple to nearly white, lobes not half as long as 
the tube. Stamens exserted or subincluded ; filaments glabrous at their base. 
Berry 2 lines diameter, subglobose, many-seeded. — Miers, 111. S. Amer. PI. 
ii. 95, t. 64, fig. B ; L. savum, orientate, and persicum, Miers, l.c. 95, 99, 100, 
t. 64, A, B ; L. intricatum, Boiss.; Miers, l.c. 98, t. 64, fig. E ; Clarke, in Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 240 and 241. 
Hab.: Mediterranean region, W. Asia. Met with in and about some of the s uthern towns. 
7. DATURA, Linn. 
(An alteration from the Arabic name.) 
Calyx slender, circumciss near the base after flowering. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, with a long tube and a broad 5-angled or 5-toothed limb, folded in the 
bud. Ovary 2-celled, each cell incompletely divided into two. Fruit an ovoid 
or globular capsule, opening in four short valves, and usually beset with prickles. 
Embryo curved round a fleshy albumen. — Tall, coarse herbs, or, in S. American 
species, shrubs or soft-wooded trees. Leaves alternate, often in pairs. Flowers 
solitary, terminal or lateral, usually very large. 
A small genus, chiefly American, with 2 or 3 species equally common in, and perhaps 
indigenous to, the Old World. The Australian species is endemic. — Benth. 
Capsule reflexed, globular, lin. diameter, very prickly 1. D. Leichhardtii. 
Capsule nodding or suberect, subglobular, l^in. diameter, equally spinous 
on all sides 2 .*D. fastuosa. 
Capsule erect, ljin. by lin., equally spinous on all sides A.*D. stramonium. 
1. D. Leichhardtii (after Dr. Leichhardt), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Soc. 
Viet. i. 20 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 468. An erect annual of 1 to 3ft., sparingly 
pubescent. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acui e or shortly acuminate, irregularly 
sinuate-toothed or lobed, mostly 3 to 4in. long. Flowers of a pale yellowish- 
white, on short peduncles either terminal or in the forks, and recurved after 
flowering. Calyx scarcely above 4in. long. Corolla about twice as long as the 
calyx, the angles produced into short points. Capsule reflexed, globular, about 
lin. diameter, very prickly, resting on the broadly expanded persistent base of the 
calyx. — D. alba, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 144, but scarcely of Nees. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough ; Gilbert River, F. r. Mueller; Comet River, 
Leichhardt; Suttor River, Dorsay ; Rockingham Bay, O’Shanesy ; Armadilla, Barton. 
The Australian plant has more the aspect of the common D. stramonium or of D. ferox, with 
the small flowers of the latter, but differs from both in the reflexed capsule. — Benth. 
