126 Dr. T. Anderson on the Indian species of Lj^cium. does not reach the margin, being confined to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th interstitial spaces, the colour being shortest on the 5th and longest on the three last ; the posterior spot is con-fined to the same interstices, almost disappearing on the last ; it is more transverse and not so much curved obliquely backwards and outwards as in Symei. [To be continued.] XI. — Notes on the Indian species o/Lycium. By T. Anderson, Esq., M.D., Oude Contingent*. In October 1855, when passing through the Doab between the Ravee and Beas, 1 gathered a specimen of Lycium Edgeivorthii of Dunal, a species founded on a plant sent to Dunal by Mr. Edge-worth, from near Sirhind. The plant in my herbarium is evi-dently the same as that which Dunal has described ; but after most careful and repeated examination of a considerable number of specimens in my possession, 1 am convinced that DunaFs L. Edgeworthii is only a variety of his L. mediteri-aneum, the L. europcEum of Linnseus. In order that his species L. medi-terraneum and L. Edgeworthii may be distinguished, he has refined their specific characters so much, that they appear to be the descriptions rather of trivial varieties than of permanent and well-marked species. The differences between the specific cha-racters of the species consist of a line or two in the length of the calyx — a mark of no importance, of minute differences in the length of the pedicels and peduncles, and of inconstant charac-ters taken from the existence of minute hairs at the insertion of the filaments in Lycium Edgeworthii. In my specimens I found several flowers entirely glabrous. In Lycium europium the character is "filamentis basi puberulis/^ Characters are also taken from the branches and spines, but the latter, in both species, are of all shapes and sizes, from a simple thorn | of an inch long to a spine 3 inches long, bearing leaves and flowers. Dunal supposes the colour of the corolla of JL. Edgeworthii to be yellow ; in my specimens it is pale rose-coloured, as in L. euro-paum. Dunal has proposed to change the name of the Linnsean L. europceum to L. mediterraneumy a change by no means appli-cable to a plant widely diffused in India. I therefore retain the Linnsean name, and propose the following specific character, which seems applicable to both the Indian and Western plants. L. EUROPIUM, fruticosum, cortice albido, ramis spinescentibus, spinis teretibus, foliis 2-5 ad basin spinarum fasciculatis, obovato-* From the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. I. 1857.
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