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*** Lobes of calyx and corolla broadly -_ or almost orbicular; 
: Var. latiloba, from India 
5. Scales bifid and often very small. 
* te 3 5-parted, usually gars scales very small, some- 
es almost obliterated : ar. australis, from New Holland 
me China. 
** Flowers éfien 4-parted, scarcely elandulous scales as inthe 
last: Var. breviflora, ’ from Southern Euro 
*** Flowers and scales larger ; lobes of calyx gh corolla ut 
Var. Cesatiana, from Italy and Central Asia. 
#0 Calyx large, cupulate, lobes somewhat carinate: Ye te 
pel a Adios. 
Van ® VERA ; C. obtusi, — oe a Kunth.! 1. 
gen. sp. III. 122; C. inodora, Willd. 3164.—Flov- 
ers scarcely more than 1 line long 5 bes of poles very une 
qual, as e a= nad ae ios t . 2 hha 
smal thin, but slightly mbriate’ oF ; 
sule 14-14 lin lines in diameter, dotted with, in the dry state, 
dark red nds.—And des of Peru, Humboldt! Guayaqu 
iano! ! 542; New aang Holton! 544, asp 
more slender styles ; Triana, Linden! 168; Anti 
Magdalena River, Jarvis! This last sp 
glandulous corolla and rather larger, more ¢ leep! 
_ forms a transition to the next. 
Var ar. = GLANDULOSA : 
seems to differ from G obtusifiora by nthe m0 
lobes sof the e ‘i a cally 2 ‘more 
specimens are without fruit. 
Lis; C. 
‘more han: 1 robe io nt sig 
Socios Sid or often reduved to one 
