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VESTYA lycioides. 
Box-thornlike Vestia. 
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PENTANDRIA MONCGYNTA. 
Nat. ord. Sovanem®. Jussieu gen. 124. Brown prod. 443. 
VESTIA. Cal. campanulatus, 5-dentatus. Cor. tubuloso-campanu- 
lata. Stig. capitatum. Caps. 4-valvis. Sem. nuda. Willd. enum. 208. 
Vestia lycioides. Willd. enum. 208. 
Frutex graveolens, erectus, ramosus, ramis copiosé foliosis, teretibus, vil- 
losis. Fol. alterné sparsa, approximata, oblongo-ovalia, glabra, integra, sub- 
sessilia v. brevissimé subpetiolata, patentia, supra nitida, longiora sesqui- 
uncialia. Pedunculi /aterales, altits azillis extra lineam Jfoliorum positi, 
solitarii, 1-2-flori, erecti, teretes villosi, modd bracted vagad stipati, } uncie 
longi, non multim infra calycem articulati. Cal. opaco-mentbranaceus, inferus, 
8 plo brevior corolla, cupulato-tubulosus, pallidé virescens 5-nervis, margine 
sinuato-5-dentatus lanuginosus. Cor. monopetala, pallid2 lutescens, elongato- 
tubulosa, unciam exsuperans; tubus calycit equalis; faux cylindrica, sublatior 
tubo, inferné obsoleté 5-gona; limbus 5-partitus, fauce 3-plo brevior, stellato- 
expansus, equalis, extis tomentosus, lac. angulato-ovatis, acutis. Fil. longits 
exserta, subcqualia, apicibus conniventia, capillaria, ore tubi infra Jaucem 
inserta, basi dilataté albo-lanata: auth. fuscee, sagittato-cordate, breves, 
biloculares a furcd baseos infixe, versatiles, utrinque longitudinalitér dehis- 
centes, loculis defloratis peltato-orbiculatis. Germ. rotundum, suturis 4: superné 
notatum, virens, polyspermum, biloculare, receptaculis 2 placentaribus dissepi- 
mento utringue adnaiis, ovulis globosis: stylus filiformis, virescens, filamentis 
equilongus, at 3-plo crassior, erectus, summo germinis umbilico insertus; stig, 
continuum, parum crasstus, obtusum, via capitatum. 
A genus instituted hy Willdenow from the present species, 
which he suspects to be the same with the PerteHragmos 
feetidus of the Flora Peruviana. The two plants plainly coin- 
cide in some remarkable characteristics; but still, if we are 
to put faith in figures and descriptions, they can scarcely be 
the same species. The plant of the Flora Peruviana hag 
3-flowered peduncles, which terminate branchlets that issue 
from a separate fascicle of small leaves, in our plant these 
proceed nakedly from the side of the main branches out of the 
line of and above the axil of the proximate leaf, and have ge- 
nerally only one flower. The calyx is there described as of a 
black violet colour, and the limb of the corolla as pale violet; 
neither of which circumstances applies to this plant. The 
seed-vessel shown in the plate of the above work would re- 
move all perplexity, for that never could helong to our 
species; but then it is questioned by Willdenow whether this 
