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oy { 3 
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styles itis distinguished from C. wmbellata, which it otherwise 
considerably resembles.—Flowers 14-1} lines long; single 
seeds globose. , 
§ 2 Obtusilobe. 
Styles slender, usually capillary; flowers large or small, usually thin 
branaceous 
and mem ; lobes of calyx obtuse in all but the last species ; co- 
rolla short in the 8 first, long and cylindric with short lacinie in the 4 last 
. 
very lo ng in the 4 last species; capsule opening late and mostly irregu- 
larly 
‘ 95, C. APPLANATA, n. sp.: caule filiformi; floribus brevi- 
ter pedicellatis ve 
cox 
sequilongis; antheris oblongis filamenta brevia 
equantibus; squamis maximis crispato-laciniatis faucem ex- 
ith a very small intrastylar opening; seeds 4 line long, 
oval, strongly verrucose-reticulate, with a short and broad 
oblique or perpendicular hilum. In aspect this plant resem- 
bles somewhat C. arvensis, but is abundantly distinct from this 
and any other species. 
_ (©. Carvensts, Lamarck! Ene. II. 229; Choisy! Cusc. 
183, t. 3, f. 4 and DC. Prod. IX. 457; C. sulcata, Roxb. Ind. I. 
447; Wallich! Cat. 1320? ; C. capillaris, Wall.! Cat. 1321; 
C. Americana, Thunberg! in Hb. Jussieu; Grammica aphylla, 
