490 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
globose, short in proportion, about 3 line long, as well as the base 
of the tube in all the specimens seen, papillose or, in the 
plant, scabrous; tube of the corolla slender, much longer than 
calyx; corolla enveloping the small capsule and contracted 
above it, capsule readily opening at base with a wide aper- 
ture ;. seeds 2 2-4, almost globose, 0.4 line long, with a very 
38. C. nyativa, Roth! nov. — p- 100, not Wight, nor 
Boissier; C. Arabica, Wight, ic. 1371, not Fresenius; C. 
oxypetala, Boissier! diag. or, IT. 3. 130 >. acutissima, Buch- 
inger! Mss. in Pl. Schimper. —This well marked species of the 
tropical parts of the East Indies (Heyne! Stocks! 478; H 
Thomson! and others), extending into Abyssinia (Schim- 
per! Sage’ is ag reed the plant Roth had in view, as the 
th Heyne’s and with Roth’s own labels in the 
. of the Bot. a of St. Petersburg prove; Roth’s de- 
scription, however, can not but have misled all future authors, 
as he speaks of scales, no trace of which is present in ‘the dif 
ferent specimens I had occasion to examine, not even in 
Roth’s own, nor are the flowers usually 4-parted, but almost 
always 5-parted. 
Boissier |. ¢. already mentions that the capsule bursts ir- 
i, seni, whether it more readily opens when ape ripe, is 
own, but in all th ns examined it rather ad- 
heres to the base in the calyx, and bursts only when some foree 
is used, the deeply bilobed lower part of the dissepiment Te 
maining with a re very properly comes 1 
at the end of this section, uniting it with the next. 
With C. Cali fornica this aceon is closely some ie 
