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MONOGYNIA 



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 Botany, p. 59.) 



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§ 2. LoNGiFLOR^, caulibus herbaceis aut vix suffruticosiSy Jloribus 

 alaribus ferh racemoso-spicatiSf calycibus longb tubulosis basi ferh cal- 

 caratis nee tanthm gibbosis. petalis minimis aut nuUis, — Dec. prodr. 

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C. Llcjvea ; caulibus plurimis hispidulis, ramls ascendentibus, foliis subses- 

 silibus ovato-lanceolatis strigosis, pedicellis interfoliaceis erectis, petalis 

 2 obovatis magnis, caeteris abortivis, staminibus 11. — Dec. L c. p, 85, 

 no, 13. 



C. Llavea. 

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Herbacea, perennis ; caules plurimi, erectly teretes, facta scabriusculiy 

 sesquipedales. Folia opposita, ovato-lanceolatay integerrima, utrinque acu- 



7ninata, scabra. 



paucijl 



Calyx 

 ifiatus, 



Petala duo oblonga^ atropurpureay undulatay unguiculata ; A minima nunc 

 dejicientia. Stamina scepiils undena, nunc duodenayjilamentis pilosis, longiori- 

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A native of the mountains of 



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neighbourhood of Valladolid, the capital of the province of 

 Mechoacan, where it was originally discovered by La Llave, 



was introduced to this 



its seeds to 



Mr. Tate,' in whose Nursery it flowered in August last. 

 It 



flowering in March 



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country by Mr. Ackermann, who presented 



is a herbaceous plant, scarcely hardy 



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So named from xv(poi, curved/or swelled; in allusion to the pro- 



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tuberance at the base of the calyx. 





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