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small and dense glomerules, the closely sessile flowers, with 
long acute or acuminate lobes of calyx and corolla, and 
rather shorter styles than the common form of C. Epithy- 
mum. When the base of the calyx is elongated into a pedi- 
ed, closely sessile flowers, approach it to the next. one. 
typical form was collected on Lantana another, with shorter 
lacinie, was gathered on a leguminous shrub. 
- C, PLANIFLORA, Tenore, sensu latiori. This name has, 
' like that of C. alba, suffered under the misfortune. scarcely 
ever to be applied to the species, on which the author origi- 
nally bestowed it! The difficulty was increased by an in- 
complete description and by Prof. Tenore himself inadver- 
tently distributing under his new name a form of C. LEpithy- 
mum; even now he preserves in his barium, under 
this ¥ s of several other species, besides th ry 
p described and fig b anifiora, 
gether; and even the subspecies, enumerated be ow, can not 
