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5, oblong-spatulate, ciliate, longer than the sepals; glands 
oval; stamens 9 to 10, exserted, the filaments pilose at the 
base; pistillate flowers 2 to 5, subsessile; sepals oblong to 
oblanceolate; petals none or only stellate rudiments; gland 
annular, slightly lobed; styles 3, divided nearly to the base, 
terete or channeled, slender, about 5 mm. long; capsule 
globoid, 5 to 6 mm. tall, depressed at the apex, slightly 
trigastric ; seeds oval, 4 to 5mm. long; caruncle oblong. — 
Seemingly quite variable, but this due to different ex- 
posures. — Plate 7. 
Specimens examined from Texas (Lindheimer, no. 525, Cibola, Comal, 
Guadalupe and New Braunfels, ‘‘Small shrub much branched from 
the root, on rocky soil’’; Berlandier, no. 3212, in part; Wright, 
no. 639; no. 1803, Limestone hills, Big Bend of Devil’s River, 1852; 
Rio Grande, 1848; Havard, no. 13, Fort Davis, 1881 and 1883; Nealley, 
no. 527a=456, Chenate Mts., no. 793 = 456; Buckley, Austin, 1882; 
Reverchon, no. 1595, “Rocky bluffs on the Llano and southward; ”’ 
Heller, no. 1842, Kerville,—this like some of Lindheimer’s with nearly 
glabrous leaves; Hall, Austin, 1872; Trelease, San Marcus, 1897; Bodin, 
no. 526; Jermy, no. 565, Gillespie Co.; Palmer, no 1235, Uvalde; Bige- 
low, Mts. of Muerta and Buesta, 1852; Leon Springs, 1850; Schott, San 
Felipe, up to the Pecos Limestone, 1852; Ferguson, 1900); New Mexico 
(Vasey, Organ Mts., 1881); Mexico (Pringle, no. 264, Santa Eulalia Mts. ; 
South, Cafion of Guadalupe, Sonora). 
2, Leaves elliptical to oblong or lanceolate. 
C. suaveotens Torrey, Bot. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv. 
194. 1859; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. 15°:659. 
1866; Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 398. 1894. 
Shrub, stout, much branched, cinereous or ochroleucous, 
densely and coarsely stellate-tomentose; branches short, 
jointed; leaves thickish, ovate or elliptical, entire, obtuse, 
sometimes mucronate, rounded or narrowed at the base, 
loose tomentose on both sides, cinereous below, darker 
above, especially in the Texas forms, 2 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 
2.5 cm. broad; petioles short, 5 to 15 mm. long; stipules 
papillo- or cylindrico-glandular, not often rising above the 
tomentum; racemes bisexual, unisexual or plants even 
dioecious, stout, short, 2 to 4 cm. long, closely flowered ; 
