102 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
basi dilatata, superne filiformia, glabra; anthere cordate, 
ovate, basifixe, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium 
ovatum, breviter stipitatum, disco annulari crenato striato 
sessum, cyatho persistente (corolle reliquo) demum clau- 
sum, 2-loculare, ovulis plurimis, dissepimento utrinque 
adnatis. Stylus simplex, exsertus. Stigma incrassatum, 
lamellis 2 carnosis agglutinatis. Capsula ovata, 2-locularis, 
2-valvis, valvis fere 2-fidis, dissepimento demum libero 
medio placentifero parallelis, incrassato. Semina plurima, 
angulato-ovata, sinu ventrali excavata, hinc supra medium 
hilo parvo notata, testa tuberculata, striatulis transversis 
reticulatis signata. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi fere 
omnino rectus, cotyledonibus 2, rarissime 3, parvis, sub- 
compressis, radicula tereti infera sub-latioribus, et 3-plo 
brevioribus.—Frutex Chilensis erectus ramosus, Cestri 
Sacies ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, integerrimis, glabris ; floribus 
e summis alis subracemosis, pedicellis medio articulatis et 
hine bractea foliosa decidua instructis, nutantibus. 
1. Vestia lycioides, Wild. Cantua ligustrifolia, Juss. Cantua 
foetida, Pers. Periphragmos fctidus, R. et P. Flor. Peruv. 
2. 7. tab. 132:—foliis obovatis vel lanceolato-ellipticis, 
basi in petiolum brevem decurrentibus, carnosis, eveniis, 
glaberrimis ; corolla viridi-flava, limbo subviolaceo.—Chile, 
(Valparaiso et Concepcion.) 
This shrub grows in the neighbourhood of the saline lake 
of Bucalemu, about sixty miles to the southward of Valpa- 
raiso, on the opposite side of the river Maypu, where it is 
called Porotillos. It abounds also in Concepcion, where 
according to Ruiz and Pavon, it is known by the name of 
Guevil guevil. It is much branched, with dense foliage : the 
leaves being somewhat fleshy, veinless, about 13—2 inches 
long, 4 in. broad, tapering into a short petiole, the upper 
surface is smooth, channelled in the midrib, which is promi- 
nent below. The flowers appear on the termination of small 
branchlets, the pedicel is articulated in the middle, where a 
small lanceolate leaf-like deciduous bract is seen, and it 
becomes deflexed, giving a pendent position to the flower. 
