29. C, Americana, Lin. sp. 180 pro parte; Jacq. Am. 30, 
, t. 4, 
America from is aces to Brazil, rarely, as it would seem, 
fruit ; capsule late and irregularly circumscissile ; stylar portion 
of dissepiment reachi e base of th 
seeds mostly solitary, filling the whole capsule, roundish, some- 
what compressed ; hilum forming a very short line, almost a 
ngth; a t 
lyx; scales either truncate, sometimes almost bilobed, slight- 
ly dentate, or somewhat fimbriate; styles usually included 
i owering, more or less exsert in fruit.—M 
rico, Bertero ! St. Thom- 
as, Ridlé! Holton! Yucatan, Linden! Venezuela, Humboldt! 
: : 
orange hedges in Surinam, but with shorter styles than any 
other form of this species, examined by me. C. Surinamensis, 
Schilling, de ra p. 60 yt. 2, als 
here. C. campanulata, Nuttall! Mss. in Hb, Ac. Phil. from 
the West Indies, has ay scales of this, but otherwise is iden- 
