SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 17 
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- 
Kunth from the plants brought home from central America by Humboldt 
and Bonpland, together with another hitherto undescribed that exists in 
the herbarium of Sir Wm. Hooker; they are all trees or large shrubs, with 
abundant foliage, growing at great elevations in the vallies of the Andes, 
having generally long crimson, or orange coloured flowers of much 
beauty, the corolla presenting a 5-lobed border, with 5 small teeth in the 
intermediate narrow plicatures, as in Dunalia, and an unequally 5- 
toothed calyx, that somewhat enlarges with the fruit, and splits as above 
mentioned. 
CuanestuEs.—Calyz tubulosus, inequaliter obtuse 5-dentatus, ‘sub 2-lo- 
bus, demum parum auctus, lateraliter fissus, persistens. Corolla hypogyna, 
nfundibuliformi-tubulosa, subincurvata, lobis 5-acutis, margine floc- 
cosis, zstivatione 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. 
Frutices Andicoli Americe intertropice. Folia alterna, petiolata, Flores 
* speciosi, coccinei, vel aurantiaci. Bacca rubra. 
1. Chenesthes fuchsioides. Lycium fuchsioides. H. B. K. 3, 52. Pl, Aiquin. 
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 Llow), Hail, n. 7. 
Columbia, Jameson. v. s. in Herb. Hooker. 
Bonpland describes this 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- 
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