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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 —Antilles. 
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, upona 
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. Misc. 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 24 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-axillaribus, 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 24 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; 
