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as Choisy describes and figures them, short an adnate below 
late, and therefore often termed “baccate ;’ Loureiro himsel 
describes the fruit of his genus Grammica as a “bacea,” 
um shows the umscissile capsule. Flowers 1-14 lines 
long; 5-0.7 lines long, oval; hilum oblique or usually 
nearly perpe lar.—Lamarck’s original specimen, acciden- 
ndicu 
tally raised in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, in 1784, with 
seeds supposed to have come from China, is preserved in Hb. 
Jussieu in Mus. Paris. 
C. hyalina, Wight, ic. 1372; Wallich! Cat. 1320!, not 
Roth, is a form of this species with bifid and rather small 
A form from the island of Nassibé, near Madagascar, Boi- 
vin! in Hb. Vindobon., has also bifid scales, but is distinguish- 
ed from all other varieties by the capsule being exsert above 
the corolla and by the large intrastylar aperture. 
- », CARINATA; C. carinata, R. Brown! Prod. N. Holl. 
I. 491, from the tropical parts of New Holland, is the same 
species with more strongly carinate and more obtuse lobes of 
the calyx, more obtuse lacinie and almost globose anthers. 
—— 27, C. tincrorta, Martius! in Herb.: caulibus filiformibus 
subfunicularibus ; floribus globosis pedicellatis in glomerulos 
laxos umbelliformes congestis ; calycis cupulati lobis orbicu- 
latis imbricatis tubum corolle campanulatum equantibus ; 
