482 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
29. C. Americana, Lin. sp. 180 prot pone Jacq. Am. 30, 
17; Choisy! Cuse. 186, t. 4, fi 4 od. 1. 459, 
is is the most common species “a the West Instina 
Jachoitie aes § on shrubs and trees; it extends to the Pa 
cific coast of Mexico, and on the Atlantic coast of § 
America from shearos uela to Brazil, rarely, as it would seem, 
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akeies aleects sakes: erect arent slightly mie over, of 
sometimes almost enclosed b e and deep, cupulate ca- 
lyx; scales short, attached i pe “aida of the corolla and 
usually not reaching to its throat; styles very slender, mostly 
much longer than the very small glo ose ovary, exsert only in 
fruit ; capsule late and irregularly circumscissile ; sty n 
of dissepiment reaching nearly to the base of the capsule; 
seeds mostly solitary, filling the whole capsule, roundish, some- 
ero “re hilum forming a very short line, almost 
C. Americana has flowers 14-1} ls 
Sicber! ‘01; | i, " Polteaa! iehreabe a 
ath ape flowers ; Porto Rico, Serel oo 
snl t was Daaoatiected: by ss Gre at ae ther 
ers 1 ‘more slender, calyx narrow . 
fornia more distinctly 5-angled (angles apart Ee 
the oo Mint Ta, a and styles as in the 
