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d 
ture ; a eeds , almost mee 0.4 ass dae: with a very 
short 
38. C.. H YALINA, Roth! noy. spee. p. 100, not Wight, nor 
Boissier; C. Arabica, pede ic. t. 1371, not Fresenius; C. 
; : added 
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er & Thomson! and others), extending into Abyssinia (Schim- 
ecimens wi Heyne’s an with Roth’s own labels in 
Lb. of rae Garden of St. Petersburg prove; Roth’s d 
no sidered) can not but have misled all future abit eth 
as he speaks of scales, no trace of which is present in the dif- 
ferent specimens I had occasion to examine, not even in 
Roth’s own, nor are the flowers usually 4-parted, but almost 
always 5-parted, 
Shore ms 1, c. already mentions that the capsule bursts ir- 
arly; whether it more readily opens when fully ripe, is 
own, but in e specimens examined it rather ‘a 
aes to the base in the calyx, and bursts only when some force 
is used, the deeply bilobed lower part of the dissepiment re- 
maining with the base. It therefore very properly comes in 
at the end of this section, uniting it with the next. 
With C. Californica this species is closely connected, and, 
indeed, is sometimes difficult to distinguish from it ; but the 
texture of all the parts is thinner, semitranspa arent and shi- 
Roth’s nam it 
usually ripen all four, they are triangular, flattened, with the 
short, almost oblong hilum perpendicular or transverse, both 
forms being found in seeds from the same capsule. 
Sec. 6. Clistogrammica. 
Styles of oe length, cylindric, see almost absent ; 
stigmata capitate. ee never opening at base, baccate, 
