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petiole 9 lin. in length ; the corolla is white, with a much longer 
and narrower tube ; the calyx is deeply cleft into 5 acute lobes. 
4. Acnistus aggregatus. Lycium aggregatum. R. & P., 2, 45, 
tab. 182, a. Cestrum campanulatum, Lam. Dict. 1, 688. 
Lycium arborescens, Hook. Spreng. Syst. 1, 701. Hook. 
Bot. Mise. 2, 232.—Frutex leviter tomentosus, canescens ; 
foliis primum fasciculatis, demum sparsis, oblongis, utrin- 
que acutis, undulatis, integerrimis, supra subglabris, subtus 
incano vel flavido-tomentosis: floribus umbellato-fascicu- 
latis, corolla alba, tubo brevi, lobis macula viridi notatis, 
staminibus vix exsertis.—Peruvia. v. s. in herb. Hook. 
The leaves are from 3 to 6 in. long, and 1} to 21 in. broad, 
more elliptic: the calyx and corolla are both pubescent, the 
lobes of the former being short and obtuse. 
5. Acnistus Guayaquilensis, G. Don. Lycium Guayaquilense, 
H. B. K. 3, 50:—foliis elliptico-oblongis, acutis, supra 
parce puberulis, subtus molliter cano-tomentosis ; umbellis 
extra-axilaribus, sessilibus; calyce pentagono; corolla 
alba; staminibus exsertis.— Guayaquil. 
In this species the leaves are described by Kunth to be 
from 6 to 7 in. long, and 23 to 3 in. wide, on a petiole $ in. 
long; the flowers are about the size of those of Lycium Euro- 
peum, and of a sweet smell, as in the preceding species. 
6. Acnistus floribundus, G. Don. Lycium floribundum, H. B. K. 
3, 51 :—foliis oblongis, acutis, glabris, infra pubescentibus; 
umbellis extra-axillaribus, sessilibus, approximatis ; flori- 
bus precedenti majoribus ; corolla alba, extus pubescenti ; 
staminibus exsertis.—In Andibus Peruvianis, ad Caxamar- 
cam. 
The leaves of this species are from 2 to 3 in. long, on a 
petiole of 3 to 4 lin., the flowers somewhat smaller than those 
of the species last described, are more numerous in each fas- 
cicle, of a sweet smell, upon smooth pedicels, which are from 
5 to 6 lin. long, and thickening towards the calyx. 
7. Acnistus spathulatus, G. Don. Lycium spathulatum, R. & P. 
2, 46, tab. 183, a :—glaber, ramis angulatis; foliis obovato- 
spathulatis, dispersis, vel fasciculatis, in petiolum longum 
