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CUPHEA strigillösa. 
Coarse-haired Cuphea. 
DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LyTHRACE=. (LoosestRIFES, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 574. 
ined.) 
CUPHEA, Jacq. Calyx persistens, tubulosus, tubo basi postice gibbo 
v. calcarato, nervoso-costato, adscendente, limbo plicato, sspe ampliato, in- 
eequaliter duodecimdentato, dentibus alternis exterioribus minoribus, interdum 
obsoletis, interioribus triangularibus, postico. sepe latiore, tubi nervis in 
dentes medios excurrentibus. Corolla rarissime nulla, sepissime petala 6, 
summo calycis tubo inserta, ejusdem dentibus minoribus opposita, ungui- 
culata, duo postica plerumque majora, seepe infra basim glandula aucta. 
Stamina 11, calycis fauci diversa altitudine inserta, inclusa, insequalia, quorum 
sex dentibus calycinis exterioribus petalisque opposita, duobus posticis de- 
missius insertis, quinque dentibus majoribus opposita, uno postico deficiente ; 
filamenta brevia, antheree introrsz, biloculares, ellipticee, parvee, longitudina- 
liter dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, nunc sessile, ima basi cupula glandulosa 
cinctum, v. brevissime oblique stipitatum, postice glandula interdum obsoleta 
stipatum, oblongum, compressum, biloculare, loculis insequalibus, altero 
minore seepe vacuo, dissepimento apice in fila soluto, mox evanido. | Ovula 2, 
vel plurima, placentae filiformi, medio dissepimento adnatee, funiculis adscen- 
dentibus inserta, anatropa. Stylus subulatus, incurvus ; stigma capitatum, 
emarginato-bilobum. Capsula oblonga, compressiuscula, tenuissime mem- 
branacea, calyce cincta, septo obliterato unilocularis, demum hine fissa, 
placenta columellarilibera. Semina pauca v. plurima, lenticulari-complanata, 
testa coriacea, aptera, umbilico marginali. Embryonis exalbuminosi, ortho- 
tropi cotyledones orbiculatee, radicula brevissima, umbilicum attingens. 
Herbee v. suffrutices, sepe viscosi, in America tropica indigeni ; foliis oppositis 
v. verticillatis, aut interdum simul alternis, integerrimis, peduncalis infer- 
petiolaribus, uni- v. rarius multifloris, sepius cernuis, sepissime bibracteolatis, 
floribus violaceis, roseis v. albis. — Endl. gen. no. 6151. 
C. pubiflora ; perennis [fruticosa] caulibus decumbentibus v. suberectis 
ramosis pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-lanceo- 
latis acutiusculis basi rotundatis utrinque pubescenti-scaberrimis, pedun- 
culis subbifloris ad apices ramorum subracemosis, calycibus longé et 
obtusè calcaratis viscoso-pubescentibus ore valdè obliquo, petalis 2 
parvis, staminibus 11 exsertis ineequalibus glabris. — Bentham Plant. 
Hartweg. p. 61. no. 461. 
We received a dried specimen of this little plant at least 
two years ago, from Mr. Van Houtte of Ghent, under the 
