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this: C. patens, Benth.! Bot. Sulph. 35, from the Magdalen 
Bay, Lower California, has rather wider and a little shorter 
flowers and shorter ates which reach only as high as the 
ey scales. 
nelusa, Choisy! Cuse. 179, t. 2, f. 25 DC. Prod. TX. 455, 
roma pe pPapeitone ete. This is one of the few Cuseutee 
me, where there is in the flower in full bloom a 
slight ie eproeh to the ventricose shape. 
. laxiflora, Benth. ! aoe Sulph. 138, from Acapulco, is the 
same plant, t, with a somewhat conic ovary and capsule, uni- 
ting ent with the next rp flowers about 3 lines long, styles 
not. exs: 
c. Popayanenss, £5 Cyl Hb. - a variety of C. micrantha. 
Var. 8. sTYLo} 2 
DC. 
slender, with sbi ‘short yx; narrow cylindric corolla; 
short, narrow seales; filaments as long or shorter than an- 
thers; ia reaching to the throat of the corolla or above 
it, often long exert at maturity o it or before; ovary and 
the name of C. Americana ; Ghicebrocktt 186; squint i 
winski! Zimapan, Galeotti! 1412; Jalapa, Linden! 308 i 
In the Kew Herbarium I find a specimen sent by Botteri 
from the Orizaba, Mexico (nro. 949), which is this form with 
scarcely exsert arog ey arger flowers (3 lines long) and acu- 
tish crenulate lacin 
Var. y. sacielanie cz bosa, Ruiz & Pavon! - 
Peruv. I. 69, t. 105, b.,not Choisy ps nor DC. Prod 
Flowers 13-2 lines long, as often 5 as 4 parted in the origi- 
nal specimens in Hb. Ruiz and in Hb. Pavon, both of — 
seem to be parts of one and the same specimen; cal 
late with short obtuse lobes, half as long as the corolla ; niehk 
nie ovate, obtuse, nearly one-third che length of the tube, erect 
a! patulous ; filaments as long as the broadly ovate-cordate 
nthers ; scales voted 4 to very thin and small ovate mem- 
