is not a wrong one, introduced there by mistake. We con- 
fess our persuasion of their being distinct. On Mr. Brown's 
suggestion we have placed the genus in the order Solanee- 
It comes very close to Lycium. 
We are obliged to Mr. Lambert for the opportunity of 
taking the drawing, from a sample that came from the hot- 
house at Boyton, his seat in Wiltshire. 
Native of South America. Very lately introduced into 
the Physic Garden at Chelsea, from Berlin; where it had 
‘Inost probably been raised from seed brought home by 
Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland. 
An upright branching rank-smelling shrub; branches 
copiously leaved, round, villous. Leaves scattered, near; 
oblongly oval, smooth, entire, subsessile or very shortly 
subpetioled, outspread, longer ones 1+ or 2 inches in length, 
rather glossy at the upper side. Peduncles lateral, placed 
above and out of the direction of the axil of the leaf, as- 
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cendent, 1-2-flowered, round, villous, } of an inch long, 
jointed a little below the calyx. Calyx inferior, 3. times 
shorter than the corolla, tubularly cupshaped, 5-nerved, 
with a sinuated 5-toothed downy edge. Corolla of one piece, 
pale yellow, clongatedly tubular, more than an inch long; 
tube equal to the calyx; fau« cylindrical, rather wider thar 
the tube, obsoletely pentagonal below; limb 3 times shorter 
than the faux, even, stellated, tomentosely villous, with- 
out segments, angularly ovate, acute. Filaments longly 
protruded, nearly equal, connivent above, capillary, inserted 
below the faux at the mouth of the tube, widened at the 
base and bearded with a white wool: anthers brown, sagit- 
tately cordate, didymously locular, fixed at the notch in 
their base to the point of the filament, loculaments, when 
the pollen has been voided, of a round peltate form. Style 
as long as the filaments, 3 times thicker, greenish, inserted 
-at the umbilicated summit of the germen; stigma deep green, 
obtuse obsoletely indented. Germen round, marked above 
with 4 seams, green, many-seeded, bilocular, with two 
placentiform receptacles, one grown to each side of the dis- 
sepiment; ovula globular. 
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