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| variable; either an umbelliform or somewhat 
ji date cluster with pedicelled flowers; or a loose racemi- 
; or paniculate cyme, finally more or less crowded; or (in 
os - species) compact and often continuous clusters of 
flowers with many sterile bracts. The corolla 
pes either at base or around the capsule or covers its top. 
section is the richest in species, and the most common 
in North and South Syerhet and on the Islands of a Pa- 
; One species obtusiflora) is a cosmo . es 
found in North pas South anette Oceanica, Abia 
Tope, and one (C. appendiculata) is peculiar to South Mice 
§ 1. Platycarpee. 
Rowers pedicelled ; sepals united ; d capsule globose-depressed 
priate of uniform thickness, (in Aad’ Ae ober onda species conic.) 
Fetes, short and and thick ; wi in crt dale or Shiv atom See UF cake 
Ss C. OBTUSIFLORA, Humb. Bonp]. Kunth.—Humboldt’s 
is the sei of a series of forms spread over a great part 
mean The inconspicuous little species of the Peru- 
des was not re aosiicen nor sought me sot spe- 
ig 
stems mehichs has su gested sev 
ay SE Si the obtuse 
; he laciniz 
0. 
ue, With a long and narrowly | ; i 
ilum acines inet ssf hole 
Mtited. =f adalat tctiuatl the aierent forms, here 
oy i the shape and size of the scales. 
- | Sion of te forme of 0. efor. 
. ‘ “Ste or spatulate. ; 
