354, 
LYCIUM afrum. 
African Box-thorn. 
eat 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat, ord, Souanem, Jussieu gen. 124. Brown prod. 448. Diy, 106, 
Fructus baccatus. ; 
LYCIUM. | Cal. urceolatus brevis, 5-fidus aut 5-dentatus. Co», 
longior tubulosa, limbo erecto quinquelobo aut plano quinquepartito, 777, 
basi tumida et villosa, media corolle infixa, intrd limbum erectum latentia, 
supra planum exserta; anth. ochroleucz. Stig. bisulcum. Bacca’ subro- 
tunda; sem. reniformia. Frutices plerique spinosi, ramulis apice pungenti- 
bus; fol. interdum fasciculata; flores axillares solitarit aut geminati, Juss, 
loc, cit. 126. 
L. afrum, foliis linearibus subcarnosis basi attenuatis fasciculatis, 
ose spinescentibus, pedunculis calyce longioribus, 
tubo inclusis, Walld. enum. 1. 245. 
Lycium afrum. Lz, sp. pl. ed. 2, 1. 277, Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. ic. t. IAL 
ig. 1. Hort. Kew. 1. 256. ed. 2. 2.3. Zorn ic. 159. Murr. in commentar. 
gotting. 1779. 12. Willd. sp. pl. 1.10573 (excluso Mich, gen. 294. 4, 105, 
Taper) i 
Lydian flit linearibus flore fructique majori, Trew ehret. tab. 24, Sig. 2. 
Jasminoides africanum, jasmini aculeati foliis et facie. Nissol in act, paris, 
320. t. 12, ee 
Frutex rigidus, tortuosus, nodosus, orgyalis vel duplus, robuste langéque 
spinosus ; cortice pallide. ‘Fasciculi foliorum  undique Sparst numerosi, 
lores inodor?, solitarti, pendult, @ centro fasciculorum foliorum ; pedunculi 
uniflori, filiformes, glabri, deflexi, longiores calyce, duplo breviores foliis 
atque corolla, Cal. 3-plo fere brevior corollét, virens, cupulato-tubulosus 
glaber, 5-dentatus, dentibus acuminatis ciliatis tomenta minuto. Cor. tubata, 
4 partes uncie longa v. circitér, lurido-purpurascens, virore varie tincta, dia 
metro penne scriptoric minoris, recta; tubus parum superne ampliatus, 4-plo 
ferme longior limbo, uti et calyx 10-nervis, intus fauct saturate violaceas 
limbus campanulato-rotatus, laciniis oblato-subrotundis v. subreniformibus, 
hasi imbricato-contiguis, margine depressis, Fil. albicantia, inclusa, erecta, ins 
serta tubo in plano agi els pedem limbi attingentia, inferne Susco-barbata, 
deindé glabra setaceo-filiformia: anth. sagittato-oblongce, breves, erecta, a 
basi infix, polline achroleuco, Jarinacea, Germ. breve, oblato-subconicum, 
labrum, disco obsoleté 10-dentato ‘insidens : stylus subclavato-filiformis, 
ereclus, viridis, | equalis staminibus s stig, subpileato-capitatum, saturate 
viride, transverse ablongum et subrent ‘ormes 
cul ramis 
Staminibus corolla 
a AE nc 
Certainly fative of the Cape of Good Hope; but not of 
Spain and Portugal, as most books have it. Comes ve 
near to rigidum, also a Cape species, where the spines are 
however more numerous and robust, and the flowers much 
shorter. 
VO. Vv. ¢ 
