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VESTIA lycioides. 

 SoX'tliomiike Vestia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNU. 



Nnt^ ord, Solane^. Jussien gen* 124- Brown prod. 449. 

 VESTIA, CaL catnpanulatus, 5-dentatus. Cor, tubuloso-campaDH* 

 lata. Stig* capitatum. Caps, 4-valvis. Sent, nuda. fVUld. enum* 208. 



Vestia lycioides* Willd, envm. 208. 



Frutex graveohns^ erectus^ ramosus, ramis copiosijbliosis, tfretihus, ml- 

 losis, ToL alleme sparsOf approximata^ oblongo^ovalia^ glabra^ Integra^ sub- 

 tessiiin v. brevissime subpetiolata^ patentia, supri niuda, iowiora sesqui' 

 vncia/ia, Pedunculi iaterales, all/us axillis extra lineamjmorum positi^ 

 toliiarii, l-2Jlorij erecti, tereies villosiy niodb bractea vagd stipati, J uncuc 

 lonely non muUum infra calycem articulatu Cal. opaco-membranaceust inferuSf 

 3^ brevwr corolla, cupulato-tubulosus, pallide virescent S-nervis, margint 

 nnuato-5'dentatus lanugmosus. Cor. monopetala^ pallidi lutescens, elongato' 

 tubulosa, unciam exsuperans ; tubus calyci ^equalis ; f^ux cylindrical sublatior 

 tuboy inferne obsolete S'gona ; limhus S-parlituSt Jauce S-plo brevior^ steUatO' 

 expansuSy aqualis, extiis tomentosus, lac. angulaio-ovatis, acutis, Fil. longilU 

 exserta, subaqualia, apicibus conniventia^ capiUaria^ ore ttibi infra Jaucem 

 inserta, basi dilatata albo4anata: BXUh^Jusca, sagittato-cordatee, breves, 

 biloculares h Jurca baseos infix^e, versatiles, utrinque Imptudinalitir dekis- 

 centes, locuVys dejloratis pellato-orbiculatis. Germ, rotundum, suturis 4 supemc 

 notatumy virensy polyspermunty biloctdaref receptaculis 2 placentaribut dusepi" 

 mento utrinque adnatisy o\u\\s globosis: stylus Jtliformis, virescens^ fiamenii$ 

 tsqnilongus^ at Z-plo crassior^ erectus^ summo gemiinit umbilico insertusi stig. 

 continuum, parum crassius, obtusum^ vix capitatum* 



A genus instituted by Willdenow from the present species, 

 which he suspects to be the same with the Periphragmos 

 fa^tidns of the Flora Peruviana. The two plants plainly coin- 

 cide in some remarkable characteristics; but still, if we are 

 to put faith in figures and descriptions, they can scarcely be 

 the same species. The plant of the Flora Peruviana ha$ 

 3-flowered peduncles, which terminate branchlets that issue 

 from a separate fascicle of small leaves, in our plant these 

 proceed nakedly from the side of the main branches out of th« 

 line of and above the axil of the proximate leaf, and have ge- 

 nerally only one flower. The calyx is there described as of a 

 black violet colour, and the Umb of the corolla as pale violet, 

 neither of which circumstances applies to this plant. The 

 seed-vessel shown in the plate of the above work would re- 

 move all perplexity, for that never could belong to our 

 species; but then it is questioned by Willdenow whether this 



