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founded it with C. monogyna, which he has collected on wil- 
lows. 
The inflorescence forms ph ome spikes after the manner 
of this section, but shorter, only 4-3 inch long, flowers 24--23 
lines long, membranaceous, on short dicels; calyx cover- 
ing one half of the tube; lacinie linear-oblong, obtuse, cre- 
nulate, a little shorter than the tube, spreading, or reflexed ; 
ovate-cordate anthers very large, subsessile a little below 
the throat; scales oval, fimbriate, reaching from the base to 
the middle of the tube ; style as long as the conic ovary 
yi the pr elongated, somewhat igulate (linguiformia, 
A ) sti 
» ©, FisOROK: Choisy! Pl. Zoll., 1854, p. 130 & PI. 
fe 1858, p- 30.—This species extends in cavern forms along 
the whole coast of China and to Ja apan; all the different ya- 
rieties are characterized by a very short cupulate i Sa bide 
eooapae mostly cristate lobes, which cover scarcel 
iy icing ei Mi the oval anthers, sessile or subsessile 
at the throat; by the a midogt fimbriate, incurved scales ; 
by the elongated e, with 2 gee more or less conic or 
subulate, stigmas. Towers © 24--3 lines long. 
Pine “i a. THYRSOIDEA: — subsessile with several bracts 
in a compact, thyrsoid raceme, often 2 inches long ¢ 
b Ace ‘thick ; seales from rath low. wer part of the tube, reach- 
ing almost to "the base of the anthers; styles longet than a the 
be — plant, with shorter charoae ar rather oval than cone 
igmas. From (. Tupuliform iatica, to which 
dinsty approaches, it is tinal oo calyx a 
the shape and insertion of the 
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eted 9 in ' icle, 1— 
t base, ina ener flowe Ase . o decane 
e diamet 
bage to the ‘middle of ‘he sabes apie -conie-subulate, 3 as 
po Seek ree 13, Maxim.! 1. e— 
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