SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 343 
in herb. Hooker (Mathews, 1836. Provincia Chachapoyas ; 
: 1840. Caxamarca, n. 3244). 
E The leaves are 32 in. long, and 12 in. broad, on a petiole of 
.  9lin.; the pedicels are 14 in. long; the corolla has a tube 
7 lin. dnd a border 4 lin. in length. 
12. Acnistus cestroides. Lycium cestroides. Schlecht. Linn. 
7, 70: ramulis pubescentibus, interdum spinescentibus ; 
foliis late lanceolatis, utrinque acutis, glabris; floribus um- 
bellato-fasciculatis; pedunculis apice incrassatis; corolla 
glabra, lobis brevibus, obtusis, margine tomentosis ; stami- 
nibus inæqualibus, inclusis.—Banda Oriental, in San José 
de Uruguay. (Sellow). 
Thisis said to be a bushy shrub, with flexuose branches, 
the younger ones downy, short (some of them almost spiny 
at the apex), bearing fascicles of young leaves, and almost 
umbellate clusters of flowers; the leaves have short petioles, 
measuring altogether 2 to 23 in long, and 8 to 10 lin. broad, 
the petiole being semiterete and pulvinate at base, out of a 
short tubercle; when in flower the peduncles are 3 lines, in 
- fruit 5 lines long ; the calyx is 14 lin. long, having short lobes 
With a subulate tooth at the apex ; the corolla is 8 lin. long; 
the berry is globose, red, 3 lin. diameter; the seed with its 
embryo agrees with the character of that given in the typical 
species, 
13. Aenistus ellipticus, Hook. fil. ined.—Fruticosus; foliis 
ellipticis, utrinque attenuatis et glabris, floribus paucis, fas- 
ciculatis, pedicellis longis; corolla extus cano-pubescenti, 
. lobis brevissimis, staminibus inclusis, medio tubi insertis. 
— Insula Galapagos (Darwin). 
This is a very distinct species, with smooth elliptic leaves, 
3% in. long, 1i in. broad, with a channelled petiole 4 in. 
long; the flowers 3 or 4 in a fascicle, grow out of the 
cicatrices of the fallen leaves; the peduncle being 14 in. long, 
considerably thickened towards the summit; the calyx is 
about 3 lin. long, with short, unequal, rade ons the 
Corolla is tubular, about 8 lines long. 
