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es Var. a. ee C. indecora, Choisy! Cuse. 182, t. 3, f. 
3; DC. Prod. IX. 457; C. neuropetala, 8. minor, En 
in Boston Journ. N. Hist. . 223; flowers 1-1! lines long. - 
long pedicels, loosely panicled, with very short cal arta 
the Rio Grande, Berlandier! 865 & 2 2285 ; Texas, indhei. 
mer! 123, (in some of the distributed collections the numbers 
123 and 124, both forms of this species, are transposed) —A 
papillose-hispid form of this variety is C. verrucosa, «. hispi- 
dula Engim.! Sill. Jour. 43, p. 341; C. hispidula, Engelm.! ib. 
45, p. 753 DC. Prod. IX. 461; Texas, Berlandier! 956 & 
2386 ; Drummond! 248 ; Lindheimer ! 474 ; Wright! Some 
of these specimens by their larger flowers approach the next 
form. 
Var. 8. PULCHERRIMA; C. _neuropetala, Engelm.! 1. ¢. 45, 
75; DC. Prod. IX. 461; (C. pulcherrima, Scheele! in 
Sianeen 21, p. 750; smooth or rarely slightly papillose ; in- 
florescence ‘loose or ‘sometimes more compact; flowers varia- 
ble in size, 14-13 lines song usually broadly campanulate ; 
calyx as long or longer t than tube; styles usually as long as 
ovary, rarely much Geanaee anthers and stigmas yellow or 
often nh A A form with very large and broad flowers is 
C. neuropetala, y littoralis, Engelm. Boston Journ. 1. ¢-—On 
ain? St. Marks, Ryeel! 1000 & 1001; Cuba, Hb. Vind.! Ja- 
maica, McFaddin! Bancroft! a small flowered, short styled 
orm; Cumming! 95; Alexander! Brazil, Salzmann! in Hb. 
Buchinger ; Gardner! 5036, a form with very hg styles, and 
6068 in part (C. arvensis var. has been distributed under 
the same number.) * 
ar. Y. SUBNUDA: lower half of capsule enveloped by th 
tough pmmerie: of the corolla, upper part naked; short les 
divaricate— ommon on the overflowed is lands “of the P. 
rana,” Brazil, Tweedie! in Hb. Hooker 
calyx shorter than the deeply 
campanulate tube of the sf lacinie erect; scales trian- 
gular, acutish, thin, almost entire; Ad eaphtiary, shorter 
than ovary. me on Ephedra, Gill 
51. C. nF a 255 Coryit, Engelm. ti in we Journ 43, p. 
dX 887; C. habeohee! Beyrich! in Hb. reg. Berol. in part, not 
\ pod Engelm.! in Gray Man. ed. 1, 351; ed. 2, 336; ©. 
rviflora, Nutt.! in Hb.; C. congesta, Beyr. ee n Hb.: c. 
