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*** Lobes of calyx and corolla giwtg & oval, or almost orbicular ; 
scales large: Var. latioba, from India 
b. Scales bifid and often very small. 
* Flowers 5-parted, usually glandulous ; scales very small, some- 
pear y om ogy obliterated: Var. a ustralis, from New Holland 
and Chi 
** Flowers ian farted, scarcely dorag 2c berh ; scales as in the 
last: Var. ora, from Southern Europe. 
RK rath A ss a sale sage lobes of calyx and a nar- 
wer . Cesatiana, from Italy and Central A 
RE Gays eee cupulate, Nites somewhat carinate : "Var. Cor- 
dofana, from Africa. 
Varo tusiflora, Humb. ae — ! n. 
gen. sp. III. 129; Pe fnodore, Willa Ild.! Hb. ah —Flow- 
rs scarcely more than 1 line long ; lobes of ca x tS une- 
ping as in many other forms of the species; scales spatulate, 
very small and thin, but slightly fimbriate or c crenate ; cap- 
sule 1}-14 lines in diameter, dotted with, in the dry state, 
dark red glands—Andes of Peru, Humboldt! Guayaquil, 
M ena F , Jarvis! 0. This last specimen, with a 
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Y. ? LATILOBA : flowers arger, 14 lines long, of a 
e€ more paniculate 
— glo obose inflorescen her it rn can not be united 
Var. 3. AUSTRALIS; C. austr song R. Brown! Prod. I. 491, 
Sauincel in this as in all the forms, enumerated above, 
arted, scarcely more than 1 line long, dotted with glands 
all over; scales bifid or often reduced to one or a few lateral 
