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Sectio II. Stigmatibus globoso-capitatis. 



7. C. SUAVEOLENS Seringe, Annales des sc. phys. et natur. d'agriculture et d'industrie 

 III. ex Schlchtd. et Mohl, Bot, Zeitung I. 146. — Caule ramoso; floribus irregulariter 

 fasciculatis pedunculalis; fasciculis floribusque singulis braclea suffultis; calyce campa- 

 nulato quinquefido; tubo corollac campanulato limbum aequante, squamis convergenti- 

 bus clauso quinquefido, laciniis expansis, apice subcovniculato inflexis; staminibus 5 

 anthera brevioribus; stylis duobus filiformibus, stigmatibus capitatis. Q — Caules pallide 

 aurantiaci, fasciculi 3— 12-flori, bractea ad basin pedunculorum ovalis virescens, pedicelli 

 subramosi bracteolati, calycis virescentis laciniae corollae adpressae, corolla pallide alba 

 campanulala, medium usque quinquefida. — C. Hassiaca Pfeiffer in Schlchtd. et Mohl I. 

 c. 1. 705. | — C. Chilensis Berlero mss. — C. corymbosa Choisy ex p. *) — C. diaphana 

 Wenderotb, Flora Hassiaca 364. — Crescit parasitica in Anthemide Cotula, Galiis, Soncho 

 aspero aliisque plantis in Germania prope Kasselium, Ilalas Saxonum, Offenbach, Weil- 

 burg et Weilmiinster, Lugdunum Gallorum, ad radices „Monle Cenere" prope Bellinzona 

 (in Helvetiae provincia Tessin), in pratis 'Queue d'arvc) prope Genevam et in America 

 australi (Chili). 



8. C. PYCNANTHA Bth. Plant. Hartweg. p. 226. no. 1238. — Caule fdiformi vel hinc inde 

 incrassato; floribus subsessilibus in glomerulos compactos sessiles conferlis; bracteis 

 ovatis; calyce profunde parlito, segmenlisovatis aculis ; corollae tubo exserlo, lobis ovalis 

 aculis patulis; antheris subexsertis; squamis fimbriatis; stylis apice capitato-stigmatosis 

 inclusis vel rarius subexsertis. Q — Valde affinis C. glomeratae Choisy, sed squamae 

 sub floribus singulis solitariae nec plures imbricatae, corolla major, tubo 2 lin. longo, 

 limbi laciniis lineam longis, squamae, anlherae et capsulae omnino C. glomeratae Choisy. 

 — Crescit in Columbiae arvis prope Cuenea in Melaslomacea quadam vel Arlan- 

 the parasilica. 



9. C. LEIOLEPIS Miquel, Linnaea XVIII. 247. f — Bamosissima, alle scandens: racemulis 

 paucifloris 2— 3-fasciculatis ; floribus breviler pedicellalis vel subsessilibus, bracteola 

 minuta concava suffultis penlameris; calyce campanulato leviter inaequali quinquelobo, 

 lobis oblusis; corollae calyce 'A— 'A longioris laciniis lanceolato-elliplicis obtusiusculis 

 conniventibus; staminibus inclusis, filamentis complanatis, antheris cordatis; squamis 

 lanceolato-ellipticis aculis obtusis vel truncatis glabris integerrimis vel hinc illinc denti- 

 culo laterali auctis; stylis 2 aequalibus, stigmatibus capitellalis. O — Crescit in Surinam 

 in sepibus Citri spinosissimae. 



10. C. LAXIELORA Bth. Bot. of Belch. voy. ortheSuIphur 138. — Caule filiformi; pedunculis 

 brevissimis; pedicellis calyce saepius longioribus; calyce pentagono, lobis latis obtusis, 

 parte integra brevioribus; corolla urceolata calyce vix duplo longiore, lobis oblongis 

 obtusis recurvo-patentibus; squamis laceris? ; stylis apice globoso-stigmalosis, corolla 

 paullo brevioribus. O — Flores saepius in racemo brevissimo umbellaeformi subses- 

 siles, 4 ad 10, pedicelli filiformes inaequales, 2—3 lin. longi, calyx laxus, per anthesin 

 l'A lin., in fructu 2 lin. longus, corolla 2 lin. longa. — Affinis C. intermediae Choisy. — 

 Crescit ad Acapulco parasitica in Tephrosiis et Compositis. 



11. C. GLOBULOSA Bth. 1. c. — Caule filiformi; floribus glomerato-racemosis vel corym- 

 bosis brevissime pedicellatis subglobosis; calyce laxiusculo campanulalo, lobis latissimis 

 obtusis imbricatis, parti integrae aequilongis; corolla vix calycem excedente, lobis bre- 

 vissimis latis oblusis, squamis alle fimbrialis; stylis apice late pellato-sligmatiferis sub- 

 exsertis. O — Tota siccitate nigrescit, glomeruli florum oblongi vel subglobosi, pedicelli 



*) In Schlchld. et Mohl, Bot. Zeitung II. 554. ab ill. Engelmann hujus speciei alia 

 proponilur diagnosis: 



C. CORYMliOSA liz. et Pav. (?) — Gaule subcapillaceo ramoso; fasciculis florum sub- 

 sessilibi/x compositis; floribut singulis pedicellatis pentamcris; calycis semiquinque- 

 /Uti lobis obtutiusculis; tubo corollae campanulato-turbinato , calycem tubduplo exce- 

 dente, laciniis limbi ovalis acutis, apice in/lr.ris erectis, dvmum palcntibus subduplo 

 longiore: slaminibui limbo multo orevioribus, /ilamentis e basi latu subulatis, anlheris 

 oblongo-linearibus, squamis fimbriatis incurois; slylis ovarium puriforme (basi camo- 

 sum conslriclurn) aequanHbus crassis, faucem corollac attingenlibus, sligmatibus ca- 

 pitalis; capsula ? — Tota planta odorem gratum profert. 



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