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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 
longe exsertis.—In Insulis Antillanis. (v. s.in herb, 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 4 inches, 
but in Sir W. Hooker’s cultivated specimen they are 9 inches 
long, upon a petiole of 1 inch, they are 43 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 
minutely punctulate above, with a few scattered downy hairs on each side ; 
the umbels are sessile in flower, pedunculated in fruit ; the calyx is 14in, 
long, 5 lines in diameter in the mouth, and swelling in the middle to 9 lin. ; 
the corolla is long, tubular, and somewhat curved, 24 to 24in, long, of a 
** dark purple colour,” its border is much expanded, its 5 lobes having floc- 
cose and ciliato-erose margins, with a broad intervening plicature between 
each, which is a character common to the other species, Another feature 
seems to belong to all the species of this genus, the upper surface of the 
leaves is covered with very minute raised dots. : 
A representation of this species is given in the Lond. Journ. Bot, Vol. 4, 
Tab, XIII, XIV, f. 1. Corolla ; f. 2. the same laid open; f. 3. Fruit; ali 
nat, size. 
* This species is shown in Tab, 111, of this work, an explanation of the 
generic features being given in the description that accompanies it. 
