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COMPOSITE. 
549. V ECTis fiiij)€S, Harvey et Gray. 
"After coinparing an original specimen of Coulter's collection, for which I am indebted to my friend 
Professor Asa G ray, I am convinced that Dr. Seemann's ^lant, collected about Panama, is a different, though 
in habit nearly allied species. It differs from the true Fectis fUi^pes, llarv. et Gray, in its leaves being 
more obloug than linear, more acute at the summit, and more scabrous at the margin ; in the shorter 
and less capillary peduncles, which are furnished with one or t\vo squamaeform bracteolffi, and are said to 
be without bracts in F. filipes (though I observe in the middle of each peduncle, in Mr. Coulter's own 
specimen, indeed a very small inconspicuous bract-like scale); in the involucre consisting of 6-8 (not 
5) scales ; in somewhat shorter and less golden-coloured ligulje, and particularly in the pappus being very 
short and coroniform, consisting of small unequal rather obtuse chaffs, seldom becoming, by a Uttle longer 
bristle, subuniaiistate. In F.fdipes the awns of the pappus, mostly two in number, are of a much stronger 
shape and larger size. Dr. Seemann's plant however, having no ripe achsenia, remains somewhat doubtful, 
unless it is a puberulous form of Peetis Swartziana, Lessing (in Linncea vol. vi. 1S31, p. 711. n. G. DC. 
Prodr. vol. v. p. 99. n. 2), the detailed description of which weU agrees with it. An original specimen of the 
West Indian plant, however, I have never seen."— JoacM^?! Steefz. 
CRESCENTIACE^. 
779. Parmentiera cereifira, Seem. Seem. Revision of the Genera Cresceniia, Parmenttera, 
and KigeJia, in Hook. Jonrn. Bot. and Kew Misc. vol. vi. p. 273. 
The P. aculeata, Seem., mentioned at p. 183 of this Work, is identical with P. edulis, De Cand., a 
species to which must also be added as synonyms, Crescentia aculeata, H. B. K., C. eduUs, Moz., O. eduhs, 
Desv., and C tmisacarpa, Zaldivar. 
780. Crescentia Cvjete, Linn., Seem. 1. c. p. 275.— C. acuminata, PI. B. K.— C. angustijolia,^ 
Willd. mss. in Herb. TA^illd. sub n. 11,485 ! Nomina vernacul., in Cuba, sec. Ed. Otto, " Guido," 
in Mexico, sec. C. Heller, ''Arbol de liicara" v. " Arboi de jicara." 
Geographical distribution : Jamaica (P. Browne, in Herb. Linn, prop.! AV. ■Wright!), Cuba (Humboldt 
andBonpland!,Ed. Otto!), Santa Lucia (Herb. Mus. Brit.!), Guiana ( Aublet !) , BrazU (Blanchct!), Puerto 
Cabello (Karsten!), Cartago de Quindiu (Boussingault!), Peru (Dombey!). 
781. Crescentia cucurhUma, Linn., Seem. 1. c. p. 274.— C. latifoUa, Lam. !— C. lethifera, Tussac ! 
— C. toancaria, Tussac ! — C. ovata, Burrm. ! 
Geographical distribution: Jamaica (W. Wright! Swartz in Herb. Willd. n. 11,486!), Cuba (Ed. 
Otto!), St. Thomas (Moritz!), San Juan (Moritz!). 
■ 782. Crescentia alata, H.B.K., Seem. I.e.— C. trifolia, M. Blanco ! 
Geographical distribution: Grows spontaneously in Western Mexico, from Acapulco to Mazatlan 
(Secmann! Humboldt and Bonpland! Gregg, n. 944! Ehrenberg! who found it at Itztoluca) ; cultivated in 
the Phihppiue (M. Blanco) and the Mariana Islands (Gaudichaud!). 
GESNERIACEiE. 
788. Nautilocalyx Panamensis, Seem. — Sckeeria? Fanamensis, Seem., supra, p. 185 ! 
By separating the doubtful species Fanamensis from Sclieeria, the genus will be reduced to two spe- 
