480 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
Loureiro! Cochin. 171; ed. Willd. I. 212—A common plant, 
as it appears, of the tropical regions of Asia, and Gavdshar Gat 
southward, especially Ceylon, extending into 
fith! 685) and China (in Hb. H. B. Botropolt as as “C, ‘tf 
briata, Bunge,” which name seems to be 
acterized by the strongly carinate rather ee 
Aare 5-angled calyx, with 5 secondary angles at the 
commissures ; scales rather large, deeply laciniate, and not, 
as Choisy describes and figures them, short and adnate below 
the throat; styles slender ; capsule very thin, enve and 
covered by the corolla, opening at base rather irre yah 
late, and therefore often termed “ baccate ;’ Loureiro himself 
describes the fruit of his genus Grammice as 3 Figs 
though his original specimen in the Hb. of the British Muse- 
um shows the circumscissile capsule. “Flowell 1-1} lines 
long; seeds 0.5-0.7 lines long, oval; hilum oblique or 
nearly perpendicular.—Lamarck’s original specimen, 
tally raised in the Jardin des Plantes of Phin sh 
seeds supposed to have come from China, is preserved in 
Jussieu in Mus. Paris eeu 
C. hyalina, Wi ht, ic. 1872; Wallich! Cat. ’ 
th, is a form o f this species with bifid and rather small 
For: form from the island of — near 
ormes congest is: calycis t jangisit 
Tatis imbricatis tubum corolle campanulatum 
