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the styles, rarely of the same length. Stamens half as lon 
as lacini# ; incurved scales as long or sometimes longer shes 
tube; capsule phew circumscissile. 
is C. Africana, a. Drege! C. Africana, Ecklon & 
Zeyher ! 20, TT, = sane 21,1,11; C. Burmanni, Choisy! Cuse. 
177,& DC. Pro d. IX. 454, i is the same plant, as I Soh satisfied 
myself by a careful examination of the original specimen in 
Hb. Delessert. This specimen is further i interesting as as it bears 
the inscription “C, Americana,” it would seem, in Thunberg’s 
handwriting. This may therefore be the Ao plant, 
cana 
Le la 
; ded.” So it seems 
dhet, at one time Thunberg himself took C. Chinensis for his 
na, but as, so far as known, this ier does not occur 
ose 
C. nitida seems to be cas of the commonest species at po 
Cape of of Good Hope, and has been collected there b 
a botanist -R, C. Alexander communicated a a 
L with firmer red stems; some of Drege’s specimens 
exhibit a somewhat perder = calyx 
ta granulated, 
18. C. Avricana, Thunberg? Fl Cap. S68 & Phyt. BL 
for find as 1us 
labeled, i in Willdenow’s poe nro. 3161. Choisy’s descrip- 
entirely refers to this pla lant, though one of the specimens, 
he Cites, belongs to C. 
It is well giktabtevined by the very loose fattorembhice, the 
long pedicels, the capillary styles which are much longer (often 
more than wi } long), than the oblong and thick diver- 
gent stigmata ; Pc ca lobes broad, obtusish, 1 apg 
ns linear-oblong, obtusish, invo ata S oe 
4 : eC y f 
cnn nrc eT , almost ‘ost baceate, ¢ or opening 
ery late, with the corolla perstent a at ee mostly with a 
