1599 



LOASA* Placei 





Mr, Place's Loasa. 







POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. oh POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. , 



Nat. ord. Loaseje Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of Botany, 



p. 58.) 





LOASA.— Supra, vol. S.fol. 667. 





ppositis 



i mato-pinnatifidis : laciniis incisis, calycis laciniis ovato-lanceolatis indi- 

 visis, petalorum interiorum appendicibus ovatis sessilibus dimidiato- 

 oblongis cirrhosis, capsulS hispidissima clavata. 



L. Placei- Lindl. in Hort. Trans, vol. 6. p. 95. 



L. acanthifolia. Ker in Bot. Reg. 785. 



L. nitida fi. Hooker in Bot. miscell. 3. 238. 



I L. nitida. Don in Sweet's fl. gar. n. s. 195. 





Our drawing of this plant was taken in Mr. Knight 



Nursery in July last. 



Cuming's seeds. Long since it was in the Garden of the 





O LS1CXL1L HttO *i*ia.xs&.» - »* - 



It had been raised from some of Mr 



Horticultural Society, where, however, it has been lost for 

 some years, nothing now remaining but L. nitida. If it were 

 not for its abominable stings, this would be a valuable' hardy 



to every plant a 



old Scottish motto, 



extremely unpleasant 



accidents having arisen from ladies being stung incautiously 

 with it. 



annual; but it is almost necessary that 

 board should be affixed bearing the ol 



bearing 

 Touch not the cat, but the glo 







Easily propagated by seeds, and flowers from June to 

 August. It is quite hardy during the summer, but should 

 oe raised in a hot-bed, and planted out in wet weather. 



* Meaning unknown. 





