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SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES 
in Hb. Ruiz, now i 
of E. Boissier of Geneva, 
by latei writers. Tine raceme of flowers on the left side of has otherwise very correct figure is imaginary, as the inflo¬ 
rescence is a loose few-flowered cyme. The flowers have a diameter of full 4 lines, and are 2f-3 lines high ; the 
subulate filaments are inserted a little below t^e throat; no trace of scales visible; styles and capsule scabrous or 
verrucose ; dry corolla at base of capsule ; ripe seeds- only 0.8 lines in diameter, almost globose, very rough: hilum a 
mere dot. . 
This species is peculiar to the Andes about the Equator ; New Granada, Humboldt! Purdie! Gondot* Peru 
Haenke! CL Gay! Weddell! 4768 ; Bolivia, Weddell! 4518“ Chili, Edmonston! 
Z. 2 ?'„ OOOB 4 TA ’ Euiz & Pawn ! EL Peruv. I. 69, t. 105, f. a., not Choisy nor Pceppig. 0. intermedia, 
ejsy. use. 179, t. 2, f. 3, and DC. Prod. IX. 455; Gay, El. Chil. IV. 447. — After examining the original specimen 
*he Royal Herbarium at Berlin, and the almost identical one in Hb. Pavon, now in the possession 
. well latter is the original for? Choisy’s description, — I can have no doubt about the 
identity of these plants. Mowers 3 lines long, 3-4 lines-in diameter, ©n very short pedicels, forming dense lateral 
clusters ; lactate rather longer than the shallow Jube ; scales very large, deeply fringed ; corolla surrounding and 
partly covering the irregularly eireumscissiie eapsule ; seedsfttiangularu-ounded, nearly 1 line long. —In the Kora 
Peruviana the capsule is already figured as eireumscissiie; but the whole figure, especially the details, are not very 
correct, and rather calculated to mislead. 
Peru, Ruiz! Pavon! A. Matthews! 486; Weddell! 4693; Ecuador; Seemann! 852; Chili, Cl. Gay! 38 & 815. — 
In Weddell’s specimen the tube is more cylindrical and longer and the lobes rather shorter, uniting this species with 
Var. fi.l BomYOiDES, from southern Brazil, Lobb! 49, in the Kew Herbarium. — Dense clusters of flowers, 
arranged in long pendulous bunches resembling grapes; tube deeply campahulate, almost cyltndric, nearly twice as 
long as the broad, rounded lacinise ; corolla enveloping the widely* gaping capsule, the styles of which are 
shorter and thicker than in G. odnrata; stylar portion of dissepiment'broad and jagged. —.Apparently inter- {478 (28)] 
mediate between this and CL Chttensis, and perhaps specifically distinct. v 
V* [20\ C. globiflora, n. sp.: caulibus filiformibus, crassiusculis; glomerulis paucifloris compactis ; [520(70)] 
floribus sufesessilibus bractea una alterave orbiculata #?ncava suflultrs; calyfeis fere ad basin fissi lobis 
orbicularis imbrieatis margin© tenuissimo-ciliolatisAtubum corollse ventricosum globosu m subeequantibus ; laciniis 
ovato-orbiculatis erenulatis imbrieatis erectis ^seu conniventibus tubo brevidribtfs ; ahtheris ovatis filamento bre- 
vissimo lougioribus ; squamis magnis ovatis breve fimbriaris fauoerii peire atrin^entibus.; stylis ovario globoso 
eequilongis. =• ’--v. / • i.,*.. . 
Cuzco, Bolivia, at an elevation of 11-12,000 feet, Pentland! in Hb. Hooker.- Gkmerules in the -angle speci¬ 
men seen 6-7 lines in diameter, consisting of 2-5 flowers ; flowers with the thick calyx and the surrounding bracts 
almost globose, 3-3§ lines long, a little lessen diameter; coroSa reMly ventricose or urceolate; o'vary globose or even 
depressed ; I could not ascertain whether the styles become subulate ; stigmas small and slightly conic; in the dried 
state the young capsule seems to be circumseissile even long before maturity.; corolla apparently covering the eapsule. 
Evidently closely allied with G. odomta , to which in habit and inflorescence it bears a great resemblance ] 
^ 21. C. Jalapenbis, Schlechte^dal! Linnsea, VI1L p. 515. — Though well and carefully described, [47& (28)] 
and published as early as 1833, this well-marked species has been overlooked by later writers. It is similar 
to the last, but much smaller; flowers, though on short pedicels, much less crowded. Its most striking character 
consists in the regularly eireumscissiie conic capsule, with shorter very strongly subulate styles, whence Schlechtendal 
not inappropriately calls it “ bicornis.” 1 
Peculiar to Mexico; Jalapa, Schiedel 152; Linden! 308; near Mexico, Graham L250; Bustamentei 83- 
Oaxaca, Galeottil 4413. 
^ 22. C. Chilensis, Ker, Bot. Reg. VII. f. 603; Choisy! in DC. Prod. TX. 455; Gay! EL Chil. IV. 446. 
C, oderatm, Pceppig! in Hb. 90. — A common plant in Chili, whence almost every collector sends it; well character¬ 
ized by the densely clustered almost sessile flowers, cylindric tube, large, linear, almost sessile anthers, and short 
deeply fringed scales; styles as long as the irregularly eireumscissiie capsule, even in fruit scarcely reaching to the 
throat of the tube ; seed oval, triangular, compressed, 0.7-0.8 lines long, with a small umbilicus, marked with 
radiating lines, which centre in the small round hilum. 
[O. Qdorato, Choisy! Cusc. 180, t. 2, f. 4 ; DC. Prod. IX. 456; Gay! FI. Chil. IV. 447, not'Ruiz A f [520(70)] 
Pavon, according to the description and figure of Choisy and the authentic specimens in Hb. De Candolle, 
does not'essentially differ. The specimens of Gay, 816 and 817, and of Bertero, 940, have a thinner, more membra¬ 
naceous texture than the ordinary G. Chilensis , but (raudiehaud’s specimen is absolutely identical with it.] 
* * Lobes of calyx acute. 
[478 (28)] 
