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lobis ovatis orbiculatisve obtusis basi imbricatis tubum co- 
854, both in Hb. Hooker.—None of the species examined 
being in fruit, the true position of this species must remain 
doubtful. The large imbricate calyx, the slender styles, and 
petro Ae the branching aoe eg cai: fem it from C. 
2 lines long, “white, with a strong odor hawthorn,” 
ruce 5 ert lobes of the calyx in the Panama specimen 
towards the verrucose-cristate ; in the other smooth, thin 
and shining ; seals in the former longer than the tube, in the 
other hcp a a 
etic “spe: aule filiformi; floribus brevi- 
ter pedicellatia umbellato-glomeratis; cealycis lobis ovatis seu 
orbiculatis obtusissimis nitidis tubum corolle equantibus ; 
laciniis triangulatis acutis erectis seu demum patentibus tubo 
sae oe 
< paalnerseeete pi 
rvisve ; seminibus song ovatis tumidis tenuissime su 
i Sandwicensi, 
James Talend of the Gallopagos i in immense abun- 
dance on Mimosa bushes, Chs. Darw n Hb. Hooker.— 
Flowers about 1 line long, of a very thin t diietgued capsule 11— 
14 lines in diameter, with a very small intrastylar aperture ; 
seeds in the only specimen extant light yellowish brown, 0.6 
line long, plump, nearly smooth, with a short, oblong-linear, 
usually perpendicular, hilum.—Much closer to C. arvensis 
than to C. Sandwichiana ; distinguished from both by the 
short, broad and very acute lobes of 
very slender, = last nearly horizontal, . les; from the —_ 
‘ Sani widel H1ANA, Choisy! Cond 184, a ~ ai 
Prod. IX. 458.—Sandwich ae ys eh Rat only spe- 
cies growing there ; mostly on shru enzies! Eschscholtz! 
nig eta Matthews! Stewart! ut Norns mane ! 
! 424.—Inflorescence a compound loosely flowered eyme ; : 
ewan pedicelled, 1-14 lines long, “pallide oeleranert Maxim., 
of thin, membranaceous texture ; only in Menzies’ specimen 
