128; DO. Prod. IX. 459.—The 1 ake 
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laciniis tubo zequilongis ovatis obtusis basi imbricatis erectis 
seu demum patulis reflexive; antheris ovatis filamento subu- 
lato brevissimo plerumque longioribus; squamis late ovatis 
briato-laceris tubum zequantibus seu paulo excedentibus 
ineurvis; stylis filiformibus ovario depresso longioribus. 7 
exsertis; capsula irregulariter cireumscissa corolla marce 
cente involuta eae 
Mexico, mee} as it seems, on trees: Oaxaca on Schinus 
Karwinski! who relates that the natives use it un- 
der the ae of “Zaca-tlascalli” as a yellow dye; and, in- 
deed, the dried Specimens tinge water, paper, etc., iy, ’yel- 
low, eng I notice also in some other South American Cuscu- 
te; 
style from C. floribunda, po circuses ca 
flower from - Gronovii, and the short Sanrate from all of 
them; a specimen, however, in the Hb. H. Bot. of St. Peters- 
burg, collected by Karwinski on an oak “between Victo- 
ria and the Rio comanads has filaments as long as the anthers. 
_ ** Flowers elongated. 
FLorrBuNDA, Humb, Bonpl. Kunth! of tie ae : 
known to me, gathered by Bonpland! 
'n western Mexico, 3000 are preserved in the royal 
Hb. at Berlin and i in Hb. Will » oe Eee ee ey are 
in rather poor con ‘eadtdon, nd in rij fruit onl ;; enough is. 
: » to show that the plant is n to opay 
usis as Kunth alre dy states, but el cis ish ste, Bees 
he de sears re pg oblong 
narrow, tei triangular and very 
edges is Me or, when i = are TeRGESA 
el C.; ia, to ey : L 
