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ard Tent. Fl. Abyss. II. 79, is perhaps too nearly allied to 
niflora, from some forms of which it is scarcely di 
guished but by the short styles, whi frui di- 
varicate. In the original Abyssinian specimens the lobes of 
the corolla are expanded, in es oth y are closed over 
; in 
Affghanistan, Griffith! 686; Thibet, Hooker 
C. elegans, — in Herb. 518 (not "Boissien), ft: the ne Tiss 
is the same plan 
Var. ? se no C. globulosa, a & Reuter! in 
sched., Boiss. in Diag. or. II. 3, 126; Lad 
Reut. in sched.—This very pretty form, “ bar 
very distinct; but Boissier himself alr ee 
and i 
priety of uniting it with “ C, alba” (lanfor) 
ms papillose flowers greatly resemble the v: 
eribed above; on the other schand it approaches | poche 
put’ more in external appearance than in essen ’ 
ne panei red tinge ot i its flowers is  becasonbile fun 
h of these, and may be in some connection with the 
tenet of. the se is corolla closes over owe + 
ule, giving 
flower as well as the whole head an obtuse 
arance ; the scales in the original specimen are bilo 
in the other truncate ; styles very short—M 
of Asia Minor: on the Tmolus, Balansa! 413; on thet 
at same! rut. of 
‘ts 
ovary and com Ae large ca 
ang and are dead ae 
0) in it y distinguish it; 
pay as the BES do; the o fvehie. however, 4 are as 
as 4-parted. 
hs species has given cause to a good deal of di ees 
to the me or absence of scales; but 
cai er a suatber ot nag ee st Oe 
oe shits adheres to the tube of the corolla init a 
