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LAPLACEA SEMISERRATA. SeMISERRATED- 

 LEAVED LAPLACEA. 



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Class and Order. 



POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Ternstrgemiace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cah/x pentaphyllus. Corolla 5-polypetala, petalis ple- 

 nunque iuaequilateris. Stamina indefinite libera. Ovarium 

 superum, quinque- ad multiloculare. Stt/li quinque vel 

 pliircs, breves, stiginatibus simplicibus. Capsula lignosa, 

 Quinque- ad decemlocularis, quinque- ad decemvalvis. 

 Scmina in quovis loculo plura biseriata, apice alata. Mart. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Laplacea* semiserrata ; foliis oblongo-subovatis acutis 

 basi oblique attenuates superne serratis coriaceis 

 utrinque glabris, floribus in axillis superioribus soli- 

 tariis vel aggregatis, petalis 5 ad 8. 



Laplacea semiserrata. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. p. 300. 



H^smocharis semiserrata. Mart, et Zucc. Nov. Gen. et 

 Sp. Bras. 1. p. 107. t 67. 



Lindleya. c< Nees, in Regensb. Bot.-Zeit. 1821. p. 299." 



Wickstrcemia fruticosa. " Schrad. in Goett. Gal. Aug. 

 1821. p. 710. 



A native of various parts of Brazil, where, according to 

 Martius, it forms a tree thirty to forty feet in height. St. 

 Hilaire says of it " Arbor mediocris, v. sa3pius frutex 



ramosus." 



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* So named by Humboldt in compliment to the distinguished Philoso- 

 pher and Mathematician, Laplace. 



