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* Flowers subsessile, crowded in rather dense, small or large and co 
eat glomerules ; withered corolla enveloping or covering if 1-2- cha 
x 48. C. suprnctusa, Durand & Hilgard! in Jour. Ac. Phil. 
IIL. p. 42, and in Pacif. R.R. Rep. V. 3, p. 11.—This fine and 
large flowered species resembles different. forms of C. corym- 
bosa and C. odontolepis so much, that I felt gee aed in- 
olined to unite all of them as varieties of one and the same 
ce or 
lacinie ovate, acute, more or less crenulate, shorter than this 
subsessile 
scarcely reaching above the middle of the schin aula 
oblong, deeply fringed ; styles slender, much longer than the 
2-pointed came at first scarcely exsert; capsule oval, 1-2- 
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oe Wright !—It is remarkable, but in this genus not 
ual, that specimens from the high mountains are abso- 
pre identical with tho se from the salt marshes of the coast; 
the only difference I can discover consists in the flower being 
a — se the regen longer and we ae a 
49, C. MICRANTHA, tras Cuse. 175, t. 1, f. 83, DC. Prod. 
IX., 453 ; Gay! FI. Chil. IV. 446—A small flowered and low 
species, perhaps the lowest one in South America, peculiar 
_* Chili : — ee Ton, shore of the Ocean, always on 
