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VESTIA LYCIOIDES. BOX-THORN-LIKE 
VESTIA. 
Class and Order. 
Prnranpria Monoernia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, 5-dentatus. Cor. ivifundibuliforiis; 
tubo calyce triplo longiore. Stigma capitatum. Caps. 2- 
locularis, 4-valvis. Sem. nuda. Embryo rectus . . 
Specifie Name and Synonyms. 
Vesta lycioides. Willd. Enum. 1. p. 208. Don in Edinb. 
Phil. Journ. No. 14. Bot. Reg. 299. 
_ Canrua ligustrifolia. Juss. in Ann. du Mus. Hist. Nat 3. 
p. 118. e¢. 15. p. 341. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. p. 366. 
_ Peripnraemos feetidus. Ruiz. et Pav. Fl. Peruv. 2. p.17. 
t. 132. Exclusa figura capsule, que pertinet ad 
Cantuz vere speciem. Don. 
UEVILLGUEVILL. Incolis. 
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The genus Cantu, to which our plant has been referred 
y Jussieu and other botanists, belongs to the natural 
Order of Polemoniacee; but Mr. Rosert Brown, in the 
Botanical Register (No. 299) has referred Vest1a to the 
Solanee ; the justness of which arrangement has been 
Since confirmed by Mr. Davin Don, from an examination 
ofthe fruit. This able young botanist has likewise pointed 
Out its near affinity to Cesrrum, a genus also belonging 
to the family of Solanee. 
here is only one species of Vesta at present known, 
fora full description of which we refer to Mr Don’s observa- 
_ Hons on the natural family of plants called Polemoniacee, 
Published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, for 
_ October 1822, 
It 
