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TAB. 4149

LÝCIUM FUCHSIOIDES. Fuchsia-flowered Lycium.

Nat. Ord. SOLANEE.-PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LYCIUM. L.-Char. Gen. Calyx urceolatus, æqualiter quinqueden- tatus v. irregulariter tri- quinquefidus. Corolla hypogyna, infundibuliformis v. tubulosa, limbo quinque- decemfido v. dentato, interdum plicato. Stamina 5, medio v. imo corollæ tubo inserta, inclusa v. exserta; antheræ longitudi- naliter dehiscentes. Ovarium biloculare, placentis dissepimento adnatis, multiovulatis. Stylus simplex; stigma depresso-capitatum v. obsolete bilo- bum. Bacca calyce suffulta bilocularis. Semina plurima, reniformia. Embryo intra albumen carnosum periphericus, hemicyclicus.-Arbuscula v. frutices, in regione Mediterranea et in America tropica transandina crescentes, plurimi quo ad seminis structuram nondum explorati, et fortas- sis olim e genere expellendi; foliis alternis, integerrimis, interdum fascicu- latis; pedunculis extra axillaribus aut terminalibus, solitariis, geminis v. umbellatis, rarius corymbosis; corollis albidis, flavescentibus, roseis, pur- pureis v. coccineis. Endl. * LYCIUM fuchsioides; fruticosum inerme glabrum, foliis oblongo-obovatis obtusis in petiolum brevem attenuatis, pedicellis aggregatis axillaribus terminalibusque unifloris, floribus nutantibus, calycibus subcampanula- tis 5-dentatis bilobis seu hinc fissis, corolla tubulosa calyce ter longiore, limbo patente quinquedentato dentibus minoribus interjectis, stamini- bus inclusis, bacca ovato-acuminata. LYCIUM fuchsioides. H. B. K. Pl. Equin. 1. p. 147. t. 42. Gen. et Sp. Am. 3. p. 52. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 701. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. 4. p. 696. Walp. Repert. 3. p. 110. Introduced to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, and raised from seeds sent by Dr. Jameson, from Azoques, in the Quitinian Andes, where it is used by the natives for fences. Dried specimens from the same locality are now before us, bearing both flower and fruit at the same time: the fruit occupying the lower part of a branch; perfect flowers the upper. From these specimens, the fruit has been added. The figure in the "Plantes Equinoctiales" from nearly the * So called from the original species being a native of Lycia, in Asia Minor. W same country (" locis subfrigidis Regni Quitensis, prope Delay, Cumbe et Cuenca, alt. 1,400 hexap."), is a good representation of the plant; but the intermediate lesser teeth of the limb of the corolla are omitted, which indeed are not easily seen in the dried specimens; and the fruit is given as a small globose berry. In the Nov. Gen. Amer., however, the berry of the same plant, is, on the authority of Humboldt, described as ovate;" so that I cannot doubt of our plant being identical with it. It flowered during a good part of the summer, and, which may be inferred from our figure, made a very handsome appearance. 66

Botanical Description A shrub, as cultivated by us, about five feet high,

everywhere glabrous, or nearly so, unarmed. Leaves often fascicled, obovate, inclining to oval or oblong, very obtuse, entire, tapering at the base into a short footstalk. Peduncles aggregated, axillary, or supra-axillary, or terminal, shorter then the leaves, single-flowered. Flowers drooping, large, handsome. Calyx subcampanulate, five-toothed, and bursting, as it were, with a fissure on one side, or into two unequal lobes. Corolla thrice as long as the calyx, orange-scarlet; tube elongated, nearly straight; limb moderately spreading, five-toothed or angled, with a smaller intermediate tooth. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla. Filaments included, downy at the base. Germen pyramidal, obscurely five-lobed Style as long as the corolla: Stigma capitate. Berry (on native specimens) ovate, acuminate, in part sur- rounded by the cleft calyx. Thrifty Whiskers

Figures

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