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It should be remarked that the flowers in most (and I be- 
lieve in all) species of Acnistus possess a very sweet smell. 
1. Acnistus cauliflorus, Schott ;—foliis obovato-oblongis, utrin- 
cosis, æstivatione valvato-induplicativis, basi plicatis, dentibus brevibus 
interjectis. Stamina 5, subinclusa, filamentis basi adnatis, mox liberis, 
gracilibus, erectis, vix exsertis; antheris oblongis, basifixis. Ovarium 
ovatum, 2-loculare. Stylus ‘gracilis, apice incrassatus, exsertus. Stigma 
clavato-bilobum. Bacca obovata, calyce hinc fisso inclusa. Semina 
numerosa, in pulpo nidulantia, rugosa, reniformia, cetera ignota. 
Fratices Andicoli Americe intertropice. Folia alterna, petiolata. Flores 
speciosi, coccinei, vel aurantiaci. Bacca rubra. 
1. Chænesthes fuchsioides. Lycium fuchsioides, H. B. K. 3, 52. Pl. ZEquin. 
tab. 42. Bot. Mag. tab. 4149. Fruticosa; foliis obovato-oblongis, obtu- 
siusculis, glabris ; umbellis extra-axillaribus, terminalibusque, sessilibus, 
multifloribus ; pedicellis glabris, cernuis; calyce 2-lobo, sub 5-dentato, 
lobo altero 3-dentato, vel integro ; corolla coccinea, glabra, filamentis 
basi villosis, dilatatis, inclusis. Quito (in vallem Lloæ), Hall, n. 7. 
Columbia, Jameson. v. s. in Herb. Hooker. 
Bonpland describes tbis to be a shrub 10 or 12 feet high. The leaves 
are smaller than most of the other species, being only 2 in. long, and 9 lin. 
wide, broader towards the top, and narrowing gradually into a petiole of 
6 lin, in length. The calyx is tubular, quite glabrous, about 5 lin. long, 
broadly 2-lobed, the one lobe having a single, sometimes two minute pu- 
bescent teeth, the other having three minute approximate teeth, which are 
downy ; the flowers, according to Bonpland, are of a ** beau rouge,” while 
Colonel Hall states them to be ** orange red ;" they are about 1 inch long, 
tubular, glabrous, with a border of five somewhat erect lobes, with a small 
tooth in each intermediate plicature ; the filaments are crimson, subulate, 
slightly hairy below, inserted near the base of the corolla; the berry is 
Pyriform (not globular), and three times the length of that figured by Bon- 
Pland, 9 lines long, enclosed by the enlarged calyx, which is cleft to the 
base on one side; the seeds are very numerous, but too unripe to discover 
the form of the embryo. The plant found by Prof. Jameson in Columbia 
is hardly to be distinguished from that of Col. Hall, except that in the lat- 
ter, the stamens are somewhat exserted, and the calyx is divided into five 
nearly equal segments, being scarcely bilabiate ; but that difference alone 
can hardly make it a distinct species. Prof. Jameson says it is found abun- 
dantly in the neighbourhood of villages (azogues), where it is used for 
fences, The cultivated specimens described by Sir Wm. Hooker (Bot. Mag. 
tab. 4149), exhibit larger and broader leaves and larger flowers, but the 
calyx is exactly that as above described from Columbia. 
2. Chenesthes umbrosa, Lycium umbrosum. H. B. K. 3, 54. Fruticosa ; 
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