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axillares et terminales, tripollicares. Flores exigui, albi, 
brevissime pedicellati. Calyx 4-dentatus, acutus. Corolla 
4-petala : petalis subrotundis, obtusis, concavis, paten- 
tissimis, calyce brevioribus. Stamina 8, longissime ex- 
serta, fundo calycis inserta. Capsula 4-alata, brevè pedi- 
cellata. 
C. mexicanum, humile, glabrum ; ramulis novellis compres- 
sis, foliis ellipticis membranaceis basi subcordatis, pani- 
culé polystachyà, spicis ferrugineo-tomentosis brevibus 
multifloris, petalis subreniformibus calyce brevioribus. 
C. mexicanum. Humb. et Bonpl. Pl. Æquin. ii. p. 156. 
t. 132. Kunth Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. vi. p.111. Syn. iii. 
p. 398. 
Habitat in locis maritimis prope Acapulca Mexicanorum. 
(Humb. et Bonpl.) ^ . 
Frutex sesquiorgyalis ; ramulis novellis compressiusculis, glabris, 
fusco-cinereis. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, elliptica, 
acuminata, basin versus parüm angustata, obtusa v. cordata, 
membranacea, glabra, suprà nitida, 4 vel 44 pollices longa, 
sesqui- vel bi-pollicem lata.  Petioli fuscescenti-tomen- 
tosi. Panicula polystachya, ferrugineo-tomentosa: spicis 
oppositis, brevissimis, multifloris, cylindraceis, feré unciali- 
bus, patentibus. Bracteæ lanceolatæ, tomentosæ, ad basin 
angustate. Flores densissimi, sessiles, subsecundi, brac- 
teolis subulatis ovario longioribus deciduis basi muniti. 
Calyx turbinato-campanulatus, externé ferrugineo-tomen- 
tosus, 4-dentatus : dentibus ovatis, acutis. Corolla 4-petala : 
petalis subreniformibus, concavis, albis, calyce brevioribus. 
Stamina 8, calyce tripló longiora, albida. Anthere bilobæ, 
flava. Stylus stamina superans. Capsula 4-alata, sessilis. 
18. C. pul- 
