Tab. 4338. 
CH^NESTES LANCEOLATA. 
Lanceolate-leaved Clianestes. 
Nat. Orel. Solane^.—Pentandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, insequaliter obtuse 5-deiitatus, subbilobus, demum 
parum auctus, lateraliter fissus persistens. Corolla bypogyna, infundibuliformi- 
tubulosa, subincurvata, lobis 5 acutis, margine floccosis, sestivatione valvato- 
indupbeatis, basi plicatis, dentibus brevibus interjectis. Stamina 5 subinclusa, 
filameiitis basi adnatis, mox liberis, gracilibus, erectis vix exsertis; antheris 
oblongis, basi iixis. Ovarium ovatiun, 2-loculare; stylus gracilis, apice incrassatus, 
exsertus. Stigma clavato-bilobum. Bacca obovata, calyce bine fisso inclusa. 
Smnina numerosa, in pnlpo nidulantia, rugosa, reniformia.—Frutices Andicoli 
Araericee intertropicae. Folia alterna, petiolata. Flores speciosi coccinei v. auran- 
tiaci (v. purpureo-cyanei). Bacca rubra. Miers. 
Ch^nestes lanceolata ; fruticosa, ramulis caiio- v. subferrngineo-floccosis, fobis 
lanceolatis aenminatis supra parce pubescentibus infra pallidioribus floccoso- 
touientosis, petiolo cauabculato tomentoso, umbellis brevibus inultitioris, 
calyce urceolato 5-dentato mollissime pubescente pibs floccosis, corolla sub- 
curvata (purpiireo-cyanea) parce puberula loborum marginibus floccosis, 
autberis bneari-oblongis subinclusis. Miers. 
Ch^nestes lanceolata. Miers, in Hook. Land. Journ. Bot. v. 4. p. 338. 
The seeds of a fine flowering specinaen of this were sent by 
Mr. Purdie from the mountains of Quindiu, marked “ a very 
beautiful shrub and so it has proved. The young plants 
grew rapidly and were planted out against a wall in the Royal 
Gardens, in the summer of 1847, where they blossomed and 
continued to produce their umbels of rich deep-blue- flowers till 
the cold of autumn injured them. These flowers, in colour and 
general appearance, bear considerable affinity with Jocliroma 
tubulosa, Benth. (Bot. Reg. 1845. t..20,— Hahrotliammis cyaneus, 
Lindl. 1. c. 1844. Misc. 68); but this truly belongs to Mr.Miers’ 
new genus, Chcenestes, of which the C. fuchsioides {Lycium, 
H. B. K. and Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4149) may be considered the 
type; it is very nearly allied to C. {Lycimi, H. B. K.) nmbrosa, 
Miers,—differing from that chiefly in its narrower and more 
downy leaves, and in the colour of the flowers; here deep blue, 
DECEMBER IST, 1847. ^ 
