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Lycium Japonicum. Japanese Boxthorn.
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Class and Order.
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Cor. tubulosa, fauce clausa filamentorum barba. Bacca 2-locularis polysperma.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
LYCIUM japonicum inerme, foliis ovatis nervosis planis, floribus sessilibus. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 93. tab. 17. Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 228. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 256.
LYCIUM fœtidum. Linn. Suppl. 150.
LYCIUM indicum. Retz. Obs. 2. p. 12. n. 21.
LIGUSTRO affinis, frutex baccifer fœtens, Buxi facie — Come Gommi, Mantees. Kæmpf. Amœn. Exot. p. 780.
BUCHOZIE coprosmoides. L'Herit. Monograph.
White flowers represented on white paper, make a poor figure, especially if small; our delineation, therefore, as we have too frequently to lament, does not du justice to the original, which forms a neat thick bush of humble growth, and in the autumn produces numerous white flowers, somewhat like those of Jasmine, but without scene, as is the whole plant if not bruised; but if you strongly squeeze a flower-but or the top of a young shoot betwixt your thumb and finger, you will perceive a smell highly disgusting, which Kæmpfer likes to that of human ordure: Professor Retzius, who has minutely described this plant in his Obs. Bot. denies the existence of this smell[1], and thus very unjustly impeaches the veracity of the learned and accurate Kæmpfer: Professor Thunberg
- ↑ Quæ de odore stercoris refert Kæmpfer falsa effe in Horto Hafneinsi observavi, et ad singularem Botanicisque ignotam arborem a Batavia Strunthout dictam referri debere monuit amicissimus Thunberg.
