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Potosi, the same! and Parras, spi Minrbeiaamed s nro. 473 is an intermediate form between this and var. pentagona, 
mixed with a few specimens of Ae Soke 
ar. y. PUBESCENS: pedicels and a mt of the flower or only the ovary and the capsule papillose-pubescent. — 
Western Texas, Lindheimer! Wright! 1635 (574). — Wright’s 519 and 523 (coll. 1849) are a transition form between 
this and the last variety, having the a of verrucosa and the ovary and capsule of pubescen 
Var. 6. CALYCINA : inflorescence often more compact; flowers rather larger ; aeRO Ne calyx not angled, 
lobes rounded or oval, usually longer than the tube ; lobes of corolla broader and shorter than in the other forms, and 
often not longer than the tube. — Texas, Lindheimer! 126 (a form from wet prairies, with smaller flowers); the same! 
664; Wright! both on Dianthera, in or along water-courses ; Martinique, Mad. Richard! 114 in Herb. Mus. Flor.; 
Herb. Fauché! (now in Hb. Boissier); Saskatchawan, Drummond! C. Americana? Hook. Fl. N. A.; Oregon, 
Geyer! 674. 
Specimens from Brazil Eschscholtz! in Hb. Ledebour; Gardner! 6068 in part (C. decora has also been distributed. 
under this number) differ somewhat from this variety by stouter and, in fruit, subulate styles ; Gardner’s specimens 
have also a smaller calyx. 
wers arranged in loose compound — ; styles usually slender, as long or longer than ovary ; withered 
Sicha ‘elite at base of capsule or enveloping i 
-— 42. C, TRICHOSTYLA, n. sp.: caule filiformi; bracteis ovatis obtusis ; floribus breviter pedicellatis 
cymulas ramosas subglobosas congestis ; — cupulati fere ad basin divisi lobis ovatis bina [496 (46) | 
obtusis basi imbricatis tubum corolla campanulatum equantibus seu superantibus ; laciniis ovatis obtu 
tubo zquilongis demum patulis reflexisve ; sitet ovatis filamenta subulata brevia equantibus ; oa late ovatis 
fimbriatis incurvis ; stylis capillaribus ovario depresso multo longioribus e tubo vix exsertis. 
Parana, Tweedie! Santarem, Brazil, on Hyptis, Spruce! 854, both in Hb. Hooker.— None of the specimens 
examined being in fruit, the true position of this species must remain doubtful. The large imbricate calyx, the slender 
styles, and eapecially the branching inflorescence, distinguish it from C. obtusiflora ; the inflorescence, the shape of the 
ovary and of the styles, from C. Gronovii and C. racemosa. — Flowers 1}-2 lines long, “ white, with a strong odor of 
hawthorn,” Spruce; exterior lobes of the calyx in the Panama specimen towards the tip verrucose-cristate ; in the 
other smooth, thin, and shining ; scales in the former longer than the tube, in the other broader and shorter. 
43. (©. GyMNocARPA, n. sp.: caule filiformi; floribus breviter pedicellatis umbellato-ylomeratis ; calycis lobis 
ovatis seu orbiculatis cbtusissimis nitidis tubum corolle equantibus ; laciniis triangulatis acutis erectis seu demum 
patentibus tubo equilongis ; antheris ovato-orbiculatis filamentum breve subulatum equantibus ; squamis tenuis- 
simis late ovatis fimbriatis faucem attingentibus; stylis capillaribus ovarium depressum sequantibus supra capsulam 
globoso-depressam e corolla ad basin marcescente longe exsertam divaricatis patentibus recurvisve ; Seminibus 
oblique ovatis tumidis tenuissime sub lente reticulatis. ~ C. Sandwicensis, var. Mimose, Hook. fil. in rans. 
XX. 205. 
James Island, of the Galapagos group, in immense abundance on Mimosa bushes, Chs. Darwin! in Hb. 
Hooker. — Flowers about 1 line long, of a very thin texture ; capsule 1}-1} 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, ee usually perpendicular, hilum.— Much closer to C. arvensis than to C. Sandwichiana ; 
distinguished from both by the short, broad, and very acute lobes of the corolla, and by the very thet at last nearly 
horizontal, styles ; from the latter also by the presence of scales and by the naked capsule. 
44. C. Sanpwicuiana, Choisy! Cusc. 184, t. 5, f.4; DC. Prod. IX. 458. — Sandwich Islands ; isatenn Se a 
only species growing there ; mostly on shrubs; Menzies! Eschscholtz! Gaudichaud! Matthews! Stewart! Max 
witsch! 57; Remy! 424.— Inflorescence a compound loosely-flowered eyme ; flowers pedicelled, 1-1} lines 
long, “ pallide ochracei” Maxim., of thin, membranaceous texture ; only in Menzies’ specimen in Hb. [497 (47)] 
Banks I find all the parts of the flower dotted with glands; lobes of calyx ovate, acutish; lobes of 
corolla acute and inflexed at tip or sometimes obtusish, often reflexed, but at last commonly adpressed to the top of 
the capsule, which for its greater part is enveloped by the tube; . anthers oval; no trace of scales; capsule 1}-2 lines 
in diameter, with a small, almost circular, intrastylar aperture ; ; Styles stouter than in the lak 5 species, somewhat 
divaricate on capsule ; seeds unusually large, 0.8-1.0 line long, verrucose-reticulate, triangular-ovate, somewhat 
oblique but not rostrate, with a short linear- ‘Adonis perpendicular hilum on the comparatively small regularly cireular 
umbilicus. 
ACUTA, n. sp.: caulibus sain, ssrergat, ; eymis compositis laxifloris umbellulas mentientibus ; pedicellis 
flore Movioctiies bracteis ovatis acutis suffultis; calycis late campanulati membranacei lobis triangulatis acutis seu 
cuspidatis tubum corollze campanulatum superantibus ; laciniis lanceolatis acutatis tubo lecaioethens erectis seu sub- 
patentibus ; antheris oblongo-linearibus filamento subulato fere brevioribus ; sqyuamis ovato-spatulatis longe adnatis 
