88 E. Koehne. 
clothed with long spreading purplish hairs and a fine short pubescence 
arranged in lines; leaves petioled, lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent with long 
scattered hairs and short hispid hairs; calyx short-pediceled, 7 to 8 mm 
long, usually glabrous except the long spreading hairs, yellow green to 
purplish brown; dorsal sepal much longer; two dorsal petals 6 to 7 mm 
long, purplish; 4 ventral petals yellow, narrow, 2 mm long. Specimens 
examined: 
Oaxaca: Valley of Oaxaca (NELsow, September 20, 1894, n. 1457*; 
PniNGLE same year and locality, n. 5725; Cuicatlan, Neıson, 1894, n. 1689, 
type; Telixtlahuaca, Lucius C. Smitu, 1895, n. 536). 
This species resembles C. folucana!) but is more branched, ventral petals 
yellow, etc. 
Deser. fusior e specimine incompleto: Ramuli tenues purpureo- 
maculati et e maculis plurimis pilos longissimos (ad 2? mm longos] 
patentissimos purpureos emittentes insuper hine minutim puberuli. 
Folia (suprema tantum vidi!) internodiis breviora, subsessilia, e basi cuneata 
elliptica 48 mm longa 7 mm lata obtusiuscula, supra et in nervis subtus 
strigulosa pilisque longis conspersa ac parce ciliata, tenuiter membranacea 
nervis utrinsecus circ. 3—4 tenerrimis; floralia in quovis pari maxime in- 
aequalia, altero v. in paribus superioribus multo minoribus utroque lineari. 
Inflorescentia igitur bene distincta ramulis 1 —2-floris brevissimis composita; 
pedicelli peculiares vix ad 2 mm longi, bracteolae minimae ovatae. Calyx 
9 mm longus calcare brevissimo recto obtuso adjecto, sub anthesi gracilis 
demum inferne tumidus, dorso = purpurascens nervis intensius coloratis, 
minutissime puberulus insuper longissime purpureo-hirsutus, intus 
supra stamina sublanatus, infra eadem biseriatim lanatus lana versus 
fundum densiore, vesiculis infrastaminalibus 8 crispatis munitus, 
lobus dorsalis ceteros superans lutescens sed ut videtur post an- 
thesin haud deflexus, appendices minutae setis longis I—2 auctae; petala 6, 
2 dorsalia violaceo-purpurea cuneato-obovata 6 mm longa 
3,9 mm lata, 4 ventralia lutea anguste oblonga circ. 3 mm longa 
I mm lata utrinque obtusa; stamina 11 ad tubi ?/, inserta, filamenta 
duobus episepalis dorsalibus medio dense lanatis exceptis parce lanata, 
episepala 5 sinus vix aequantia, epipetala 4 ventralia circ. !/, v. 1/3 bre- 
viora 2 dorsalia ceterorum insertionem aequantia; ovarium angustum sty- 
lusque demum subexsertus aequilongi glaberrimi, stigma majusculum bi- 
lobum, discus deflexus in transversum dilatatus brevis, ovula 3. Semina 
late elliptica 2,5 mm longa 2 mm lata apice subemarginata calloque levi 
secus utramque faciem fere 4 mm decurrente notata, etiam decocta 
laevissima. 
Ich sah nur ein Exemplar von Nrrsow (n. 1689). 
1) C. tolucana Peyr. betrachte ich als Synonym zu C. Wriyhtii ^. Gray. 
