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VILLARSIA* renifdrmis. 



Kidney-leaved Villarsia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Gentiane* Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany, p. 215.) 



VILLARSIA Vent.— Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla subrotata, limbo pa- 

 tente 5-partito, laciniis disco piano, basi barbato v. squamulato, margimbus 

 ascendentibus sestivatione inflexis. Stamina 5, laciniis alterna. Stylus 1. 

 Stigma bilobum, lobis dentatis. Glandule 5, hypogynse, staminibus alterna;. 

 Capsula polysperma, unilocularis, bivalvis (in aquaticis evalvis), valvularum 



axibus seminiferis. Folia simplicia. Herbae natantes, v. paludosat. Folia 



alterna, rarb opposita, petiolis basi dilatatis, semivaginantibus, integra v. 

 dentata, subtus in plerisque punctata. Flores v. umbellati axillares, nunc 

 vetiolo insidentes, v. paniadati terminates. Corolla sapiils flava, laciniarum 



•arginibus Jimbriatis v. integris. — R. Brown prodr 



V. reniformis ; foliis radicalibus reniformibus integris, caule elongate nudius- 

 culo, floribus paniculatis.— R. Br. I. c. Romer et Schultes syst. veg. 



4. 181. 



Herba paludosa, pedalis, v. minor. Folia radicalia longl petiolata, 

 reniformi-cordata, lucida, obtusa, subrepanda. Caulis pallid* viridis, ramosus, 

 bracteis communibus linearibus obtusis apice foliaceis, propriis minutis squa- 

 miformibus. Flores pedicellis calycibus duplb triplbve longioribus, erectis ; 

 lutei, 6-7 lineas lati, matutini. Lacinise corollae ovata, basi barbate, 

 tridentate. 



A neat little greenhouse plant, native of swamps near 

 "Port Jackson, and in Van Diemen's Land. It should be 

 cultivated in peat earth, and planted in a pot which can be 

 immersed in a tank of water, when it will flower daily for 

 five or six weeks in the middle of summer, opening its 

 \ blossoms at sunrise, and closing them before noon. 



Dr. Brown suggests its being too nearly related to 



* So called after Mons. Villars, the author of a History of the Plants of 



Dauphine. 



