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SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES 
as the tube of the corolla; lacinise of same length, reflexed, at the obtusish apex inflexed; styles as [506 (56)] 
long as the conic ovary, at last divaricate; lower part of the depressed somewhat glandulous capsule 
covered by the corolla, upper half free,—Brazil, near Bio, S^Jlow! 4.99 B. ; southern Brazil, the same! in Hb. 
reg. Berol.; Riedel! 990 in Hb. H. B. Petrop.; Island of Sta. Catarina, southern Brazil, on Citrus , Pabst ex 
S tend. 
\r 56. C. parviflora, n. sp.: caulibus capillaceo-filiformibus intricatis ; cymis fasciculato-paniculatis laxis pauci- 
floris ; pedicellis flore minuto late campanulato longioribus ; calycis turbinati lobis ovatis obtusiusculis tubum corollas 
sequantibus ; laciniis ovatis seu lanceolatis patulis apice obtusiusculo inflexis ; staminibus brevibus, antheris ovatis 
filamenta sequantibus ; squamis ovatis laciniato-fimbriatis conniventibus; stylis ovario obovato sequilongis. — 
C. micrantha , Martius! in Hb., not Choisy. 
Var. /3. elongata : pedicellis elongatis clavatis; floribus minoribus; laciniis acutis tub o subduplo longioribus 
demum reflexis; filamentis subulatis gracilibus lacinias sequantibus. 
Brazil, Minas Geraes, on Trembleya , Ackermann! Villa Rica, on some other shrub; Pohl! 5726 ; Var. j3. Goyaz, 
Weddell! 2125. —Flowers only J-f line long, smaller than in any other species, with the exception perhaps of the 
smallest forms of C. Palcestina; of a deep red color when dry ; limb of corolla spreading but not reflexed ; fruit 
unknown. In' 5 var. /3. the pedicels are two or three times as long as the “whitish” flowers; lacinise and especially 
filaments much longer and more slender. 
ff Lobes of corolla obtuse, not incurved. 
57. C. densiflora, Hooker, fil.! in . FI. N. Zeal. I. 186, not Soyer-Will. — At Port Underwood, on the middle 
island of New Zealand, on some Apocynea , Dr. Lyall! — Perhaps too near C. racemosa , but apparently distinguished 
by the much finer capillaceous stems, the very short capulate calyx, the short, ovate, obtuse-spreading but not reflexed 
nor inflexed lobes of the^ corolla, — which are only about one third as long as the deeply campanulate tube, — and by 
the solitary globose seeds of a brown-red color, with a short linear transverse hilum on the radiately marked umbili- 
cus. — Flower 1J-2 lines long, dotted with yellow glands, which Dr. Hooker describes as oil-canals ; pistils the same 
as in C. racemosa; dead corolla covering and enveloping the capsule. 
C. MiCROSTYLA, n. sp.: caulibus filiformibus floribusque glandulosis ; cymulis laxis paucifloris ; 
calycis lobis triangulato-ovatis obtasis corollse tubo profunde campamilato brevioribus; laciniis ovatis [507 (57J]"" 
obtusiusculis tubum sequantibus patulis reflexisve; staminibus brevissimis, antheris ovatis filamenta 
sequantibus ; squamis tenuissimis ovatis laciniatis faucem attingentibus; Ovario magno ovato-conico tubum replente, 
stylis subnullis, stigmatibus capitatis pileatis ; capsula conica apice e corolla exserta. 
On the volcano of Antuco, Chili, Reynolds ! 95, in Hb. Hooker. — The only specimen seen is very young, with 
only few flowers open, and a single half-grown capsule. —Nearly allied with C. racemosa , but well distinguished by 
the large conic ovary with the thick and rudimentary but nevertheless quite unequal styles ; flower lj-l J lines long, 
nd fleshy, yellow when dry, dotted with darker glands ; whole plant furnishing a deep yellow dye. 
’ 59. C. cristata, n. sp.: caulibus filiformibus; floribus breviter pedicellatis cymoso-paniculatis basi obtusis late 
campanulatis; calycis cupulati lobis ovato-orbiculatis glandulosis cristato-carinatis tubum corollse sequantibus seu 
superantibus; laciniis late ovatis obtusis tubo sequilongis, patentibus seu demum recurvis ; staminibus brevioribus, 
antheris oblongis filamenta late subulata sequantibus; squamis imse corollse adnatis spatulatis laciniato-fimbriatis 
faucem excedentibus conniventibus ; stylis ovario magno ovato apiculato brevioribus fere inclusis, stigmatibus 
parvis ; capsula depressa glandulosa corollse marcescenti insidente supra nuda ; seminibus obovatis obliquis sub lente 
rugulosis. 
Plentiful in the province of St. Jago de Tucuman, La Plata, Tweedie! 1191, in Hb. Hooker. — Flowers on 
short and thick pedicels, wide open, about lj lines long; ovary large, almost filling the tube, subglobose with an 
■ abrupt stylopodium in the shape of a fleshy ring; stigma very small, pale yellowish; capsule with a very small 
intrastylar aperture; seeds brown-red, 0.7 line long, with an oblong, perpendicular, or oblique hilum. Distinguished 
by the shape of the flower, the pistils, and stigmas from (7. racemosa, var. nuda , and from C. Gronovii , with which it is 
still more closely allied, and which it seems to represent in South America. 
\ 60. C. Gronovii, Willd.! reLR. & Sch. YI. 205; Choisy! Cuse. 185, t. 4, f. 3; DC. Prod. IX. 459. C. Ameri¬ 
cana, L. Sp. 180, and auctt. FI. Am. Bor. in part. C. vulgivaga , Engelm.! Sill. Joum. 1. c. p. 338, t. 6, f. 12-16. 
C. urhbrosa, Beyrich;! in sched. in part; Hooker! FI. Bor. Am. II. 78; Torrey! FI. N. Y. — This, the most common 
North American species, is characterized by the loosely-paniculate, rarely from the first more compact inflorescence, 
which at last becomes densely crowded ; by the deeply campanulate tube ; the obtuse, flat, spreading but 
scarcely ever reflexed lacinise; the large, oval, deeply fringed scales; the oval, slightly conic ovary. [508 (58)] 
Seeds 0.6-0.9 line long, obliquely oval, rarely rostrate, with an oblong-linear, usually perpendicular 
hilum. — The following varieties may be distinguished: — 
