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TllOMASIA STIPULACEA. LaRGE-STIPULED 



Thomasia. 

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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Byttneriace*:. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx persistans venosus. Pet. 5, squamuliformia aut o. 

 Ftt. plerumque basi conuata 5 aut 10. Antherce rimis late- 

 ralibus dehiscentes. Ovarium 3-loculare, loculis 2— 8-ovu- 



* ' s '. ^ a P su ^ a 3-valvis, septis valvaribus, dehisc. loculicida. 

 Seminum strophiola crenata. — Stipulsefoliacece persistentes. 

 tolia ovata lobata utrinque tomentoso-hispida. Inflores- 

 centia racemosa oppositifolia, bracteis 3-partitis. D C. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



1 ho ma si a* stipulacea; glabra sed pi lis ferrugineis stellatis 



hispida, foliis cordatis subhastatis angulatis obtusis 

 sinuatis margine recurvis, stipalis magnis foliaceis 

 petiolatis cordatis subtrilobis latioribus quam longis, 

 racemis secundis foliis longioribus, calyce basi hispido, 

 staminibus 5 sterilibus subulatis, petalis o. Lindl. 



Thomasia stipulacea. Lindl. in Swan Riv. Bot. p. xviii. 

 note (1839). 



T. macrocarpa ? Hugel in Endlich. Nov. Stirp. Decad. 



This fine species with its large purple flowers, seems 

 unquestionably the T. stipulacea or Dr. Lindley's Swan 

 River Botany, and it is probably the T. macrocarpa of 



Hugel 



* So named in compliment to the Swiss Botanists, Thomas, father and 

 bosons, of Bex. 



