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6 — 8 mm longi, filiformes, fructiferi valde elongati, IS — 25 mm Inngi, 

 crassi, apice incrassati. Flores 6 — 7 mm longi. Sepala c. 3 mm longa, 

 ovata. Petala rosea, rarius alba, obovato-cuneata. Stamina interiora 

 4,5, exteriora 3,5 mm longa: antherae 0,75 mm longae, oblongae. Pi- 

 stillum cylindricum, teniie, glabrum: ovaiium 8 — 1 2-ovulatmTi, in stjium 

 0,5 — 1,5 mm longum attenuatmii; stigma stylo vix latius. Siliquae pecli- 

 cellis rigidis, suberectis erectae, 32 — 42 mm longae, latiusculae, 2 — 2,2 mm 

 1., in stylum crassiusculum, 1 — 2,5 mm longum attenuatae; stigma 0,75 mm 

 latum, stylo sublatius; valvae viridulo-bruneae vel badiae. Semina 2,75 mm 

 longa, 1,75 mm lala, 0,75 mm crassa, oblonga, viridulo-brunea. — V. s. 

 C. ecuadorensis HJeronymus! Plant. Lehm, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XX. 

 Beiblatt 49, -19 (1895). 



Caulis fistiilosus, praesertini in rliachide flexuosus, terefiusculus, striatus, viri- 

 dulo-bruneus. Sepala viridulo-brunea, margine hyalina. Siliquae substipitatae, 

 valvae nitidulae. Semina longitudinaliter substriata. Funiculus 0,75 mm longus. 

 Radicula cotyledonibus non petiolatis paulo longior. 

 Flor. m. Octob. — Hab. in locis hmnidis. 



Loc. : Ecuador in Andibus Orient, prov. Loja 3000 — 3200 m leg. 

 F. C. Lehmann n. 4826 (IL Hier, in H. B.). 

 Durcb die eigentümliche Behaarung auffällig. 

 IL Petala 6,5 — 15 mm longa. Stylus siliquarum 2 — 8 mm longus. 



a. Folia caulina inferiora 5 — 14 cm longa: foliolum terminale LI — 

 26 mm longum, 8 — 22 mm latum. Foliola serrato-crenata, crenata, 

 integra. Caulis 20— 80 cm altus. 



■1. Folia caulina 4 — -5-juga: foliola lateralia suprema semidecur- 

 rentia, inferiora longius petiolulata, ad basin petioluli saepe 

 foliolis secundarius instructa. Petala obovato-cuneata. Stylus 

 siliquarum i crassus, c. 2 — 4 mm longus, tantum in siliquis 

 maximis — 6 mm longus. 

 37. C. Johnstonii Oliver. — Tab. VIII. Fig. 4. 



Caulis 40 — 80 cm altus, suberectus, simplex vel dz ramosus, c. 6- 

 folius, ad pedicellos (incl.), inferne densius, brevissime hirtellus vel sub- 

 glaber. Folia caulina inferiora 7 — 14,5, raro — 30 cm longa, longe (= c. 

 1 fol.) petiolata, 4 — 5-juga: foliolum terminale suborbiculare vel ob- vel 

 ovatum, basi subcuneatum, apice rotundatum, utrinque crenis obtusis, 

 mucronulatis , ad basin minoribus dz grosse 3 — 4-crenatum vel crenato- 

 lobulatum, 11 — 25 mm longum, 8—22 mm latum, evidenter (= 1/3 — 1/4 IT.) 

 petiolulatum, foliola lateralia summa semidecurrentia vel sessilia, sequentia 

 sensim majora et petiolulata (ima = ^4 — '' V2 ^O? valde inaequilatera, 

 saepe basi hie illic foliolo secundario ovato minuto munita; folia caulina 

 superiora 3,5 — 9 cm longa, brevius (= 1/4 — ig ff.) petiolata, 4 — 3-juga: 

 foliola subangustiora, terminale 9 — 30 mm longum, 4 — 12 mm latum; omnia 

 subciliata, utrinque ± pilosa. Racemus laxus, subnutans, 10 — 18-florus. 

 Pedicelli floriferi 5 — 6 mm longi, fructiferi valde elongati, 15 — 25 mm 



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