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ing or reflexed with inflexed points; scales large; ovarium 
ovate or obovate, the upper part being compact; styles stout 
with large, depressed, almost peltate stigmas; capsule com- 
monly enveloped by the corolla, with 2-4 light brown, oval, 
obliquely truncate or rostrate seeds, 0.6-0.7 line in length ; 
hilum short, linear, perpendicular or transverse, often with 
radiating lines on the umbilicus. I distinguish the following 
forms : 
Var. c. Brastr1ana; C. racemosa ; Martius! itin. I. 286; 
Choisy! Cuse. 181, t. 3, £1; DC. Prod. IX. 456; flowers 
with few or scarcely any glands, of a rather membranaceous 
texture and pale color, with very short and obtuse lobes of 
calyx and obtusish lobes of corolla; flowers usually 14 lines 
ong.—Common about Rio and generally in Brazil, on shrubs 
and herbaceous plants; Martius! 941; Booz! Gaudichaud! 
Graham! Pohl! 5100, in part; Riedel, 695. 
8B. mrntata: OC. miniata, Martius! 1. ¢.; var. minuta, 
late gradually widening tube; lacinie commonly short, spread- 
A : : 
Choisy! l. c.; flowers of a thicker texture, reddish, more or 
less glandulous.—Brazil, Martius! 1292; Ackermann! Mi- 
kan! Langsdorff! Pohl! 5100 in part; Vauthier! 252; Lund! 
737. 
d wit iflora ’ 
cig Soe Choisy! Cuse. 180; DC. Prod. IX. 456, not Ruiz 
& Pav.; C. Hassiaca, Pfeiffer! Bot. Zeit. 1843, p. 705; Eng. 
migrans, Pf. ib, 1845, p. 674; C. diaphana, Wend. F 1. hass. 
of corolla with acute inflexed points; scales as ong ng often 
be be J 940 
about such fields; it has been observed in France, Piedmont, 
Switzerland, Germany and Holland. 
Var. 6. caLycrna; C. suaveole Lex 
flowers as large as in the last, often glandulous, with longer 
d wide tube; dead corolla covering the capsule.— 
Sail Bellow! in Hb. reg. Berol., Weddell ! Riedel! Valdi- 
via, Lechler! 479. : 
xupa; C. citricola, Schlecht. Linn. XXII. 808? 
Var. «. 
eben of glandular calyx ovate, nearly as long as the tube of 
