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Herb. De Candolle
Crenulosa
C. peruviana DC. - There is no specimen, but t. 4 of
DC dissertation on Bisectella is mounted. This is an
under title
engraving. They were pub. in "Monographie des Bisctelles
or bunatières" in "Recueil de Mémoires sur la
Botanique" A. P. De Candolle . Paris 1813.
C. suffruticosa "le Peruvia n. 68 lagasca
1807"
t. 5 of DC. diss. Bisc. is also mounted and is
a good representation of the above specimen.
specimen consists of a woody branched piece and an
inflorescence separate. The fruits are [illegible] young.
Stem woody, greyish, branched; leaves petiolate, crenely
glabrous,
dentate 2-3 cm. long, ca.1 cm. wide; petiole slightly
expanded below, ca.0.5 cm. long; inflorescence crenuled; ped.
slender, nearly at right angles, slightly ascending, glabrous
c.a. 1.5 cm. long; silique erect, stipitate, glabrous,
wings overlapping, style ca. 3mm. long.
C. chilensis (B. chilensis lag.) "ex Chile n. 82 lagasca
1807"
herbaceous annual, branched,
c.a. 3 dm. high, glabrous
throughout; basal leaves missing, cauline few, sessile
or with a few short petiole, lvs 2-2.5 cm. long,
0.5 cm. wide; inflorescence a loose raceme; ped.
divariolate, slender, 1-1.5 cm.long; siliques pointing the
same direction as the ped., stipitate, glabrous;