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Distribution : — Warmer regions. 
Spinous 1. Lycium. 
Not spinous ........ 2. Capsicum. 
1. Lycium L. 
Spinous shrubs, usually glabrous. Leaves small, alternate or often 
fascicled, linear , terete or flat. 
Pedicels usually solitary (rarely fascicled at the nodes) ; flowers 
small. Calyx campanulate, at first 5-merous, then irregularly 3 — 5- 
lobed or 2-lipped, in fruit not or scarcely enlarged. Corolla tubular- 
inf undibulif or m ; lobes 5 (rarely 4), imbricate in bud, spreading in 
flower. Stamens 5 (rarely 4) on the corolla-tube; anthers exserted or 
included, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2 -celled ; ovules few or many ; 
style filiform ; stigma sub capitate. 
Berry small, globose or oblong. Seeds many, few, or solitary, com- 
pressed, scrobiculate ; embryo peripheric. 
Species about 50. 
Distribution : — Temperate and subtropical regions of the world, especi- 
ally S. Africa and S. America. 
1. Lycium europium L. Syst. PI. ed. II, p. 28 ; Anders. Ann. Nat. 
Hist, ser. II, XX, p. 126 et Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 26; Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind, IV, 240 ; Batt. et Trab. FI. d'Alg. p. 622. 
Lycium indicum Wight Ic. tab. 1403. 
„ salicifolium Mill. Diet. n. 3. 
„ mediterraneum Dun. in DC. Prodr. XIII, 523. 
„ Edgeworthii Dun. in Dc. Prodr. XIII, 523. 
„ saevum Miers 111. S. Am. PI. p. 95. 
„ orientale Miers 111. S. Am. PI. p. 99. 
„ persicum Miers 111. S. Am. PI. p. 100 et Ann. Nat. Hist. 
(1854) 12. 
Lycium intricatum Boiss. ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. XIII, 525. 
arabicum Schweinf. in Herb. Berol. (ex Krause) ; Boiss. FI. 
Or. IV, 289. 
Arabic name .* — Awsaj. 
Description — A spiny, nearly glabrous shrub. Leaves lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, sometimes pubescent when young, 1 inch long, alternate 
or fasciculate. Branches grey. 
Flowers white (or light purple), J inch long, solitary., on slender 
pedicels shorter than the flower. Calyx campanulate, longer than 
broad, -with 5 equal teeth. Corolla-tube cylindrical, gradually widening 
upwards, somewhat curved ; segments of limb short, rounded or ovate. 
