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elliptic, with comparatively longer petioles, the stamens less 
exserted, the corolla more slender, with a proportionally longer 
tube, which is pubescent, the anthers are apiculated, the style 
far exserted, the peduncles glabrous, longer, and more slen- 
der. A specimen in Sir William Hooker's herbarium, from 
the Island of St. Vincent's is not distinguishable from the 
Brazilian specimens.* 
2. Acnistus arborescens, Schlecht. Linn. 7, 67. Atropa arbo- 
rescens, Lin. Lam. Dict. 1. 396. Cestrum cauliflorum, Jacq. 
Hort. Schen. 3, 41, tab. 325.—Arbusculus, ramis pubescen- 
tibus, vix tomentosis; foliis oblongis, utrinque attenuatis, 
breviter petiolatis, integerrimis, supra cano-pubescentibus, 
demum glabris, infra albo-tomentosis: floribus umbel- 
lato-fasciculatis: corolla tubo brevi, lata; staminibus 1 
longe exsertis.—In Insulis Antillanis. (v. s.in herd. Hook. 
sp. in hort. cult.) 
This species is sufficiently distinct from the others in the 
form of its flowers, which are well shown in Jacquin's figure, 
where the leaves are not represented longer than 3 or 4inches, 
but in Sir W. Hooker's cultivated specimen they are 9 inches 
long, upon a petiole of 1 inch, they are 4% in. broad, quite 
smooth on both sides; the pedicels are slender, the corolla 
quite glabrous, very short, and broader in proportion than 
any other species (4 to 5 lin. in length, 2 lin. in diameter), the 
calyx is smooth and membranaceous, and the stamens far 
exserted. 
3. Acnistus Plumieri. Belladonna frutescens, Plum. Amer. 
tab. 46, f.1. Arbusculus, ramis glabris; foliis longe lan- 
ceolatis undulatis, utrinque attenuatis, breviter petiolatis ; 
floribus umbellato-fasciculatis, exalbidis. 
This species, hitherto confounded with the preceding, dif- 
fers in the size and shape of the leaves, and in its flowers 
The leaves are from 10 to 12 in. long, and 3 in. broad, upon 
* For the details of the generic features of Acnistus, and a figure of the 3 
above species, see plate 2 of the “Illustrations of South American 
Plants, etc," 
