Tas. 5028. 
GRAMMATOCARPUS vouusi is. 
Twining Grammatocarpus. 
ea 
Nat. Ord. Loasacr#.—POLYADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubo lineari cum ovario connato, limdi superi quinquepartiti 
laciniis equalibus. Corolle petala 10, sammo ecalycis tubo inserta, quinque 
ejusdem laciniis alterna, cucullata, basi subsaccata, majora, quinque iisdem op- 
posita multo minora, apice bicallosa, triaristata. Stamina plurima, cum petalis 
inserta, exteriora sterilia acuminata conica granulata, petalis minoribus per paria 
opposita, wteriora fertilia, in fasciculos 5, iisdem majoribus oppositos approxi- 
mata; filamenta filiformia; anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ova- 
rium inferum, uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus, nerviformibus. Ovula 
plurima, pendula, anatropa. Sfylus simplex ; stigma acutum. Capsula linearis, 
torta, limbi calycini reliquiis coronata, unilocularis, juxta totam longitudinem tri- = __ 
valvis, valvis margine seminiferis. Semina plurima, subglobosa; testa fibrosa, 
reticulata. Hmbryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus; radicula umbilico 
proxima.—Herba Chilensis, volubilis, pubescens ; foliis oppositis, pinnatisectis; flo- 
ribus azillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis, subsessilibus, flavis. Endl. 
/ Grammarocanrus: volubilis. 
_ Grammartocarpus volubilis. Pres’, Symb. Bot. v. 1. p. 59. t. 38. Walp. Repert. 
Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 255, et v. 5. p. 778. 
ScypHantuus elegans. Don, in Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. v. 3. t. 238. Pazton, 
Mag. of Bot. v.10. p. 8, cum ic. Gay, Fl. Chil. 0. 1. p. 465. 
Loasa striata. Meyen, Reise um die Erde, v. 1. p. 310. 
Descr. Stems long, slender, climbing and twining, herbaceous, 
slender, soon becoming brown, but not woody, frequently branched _ 
in a somewhat dichotomous manner, rough with minute deflexed — 
and probably (like its congeners) stinging hairs. Leaves oe | 
site, also rough with the like hairs; the lower ones bipinna d; 
upper ones smaller and only pinnatifid, sometimes trifid; all the 
segments oblong, uninerved. Pedio/e’short, channelled. Flowers 
in reality sessile, but appearing peduncled from the narrow — 
elongated pedunculiform inferior ovary, terminal or axillary and 
often arising from a fork of the branch. Calya-tube very long, . 
slender, terete and furrowed, incorporated with the ovary ; limb of — 
JANUARY Ist, 1858. 
