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LopeLiA CAVANILLESII. CAVANILLES’ 
LopBeELIA. 
BOOS ORONO ES OR OB es Ons Os ts Oe 2 
Class and Order. 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—CAMPANULACE. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cor. tubo hinc fisso (raro integro); limbo 5-partito. 
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap- 
sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi.—Herbe 
vel suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra 
». laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v. 
axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere 
sepius barbate. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Lozeuta Cavanillesii ; erecta herbacea glabra, foliis sparsis 
lanceolato-acuminatis serrulatis sessilibus, pedunculis 
axillaribus unifloris gracilibus folio subbrevioribus, 
corolla calycis basi obtusa laciniis erectis tuabulosa su- 
perne fissa bilabiata, laciniis 2 superioribus liberis in- 
ferioribus 3 coadunatis, antheris hirsutissimis. 
- a Cavanillesii. Ram. et Sch. Syst. Veget. ». 5. p. 43. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 713. 
Losewia eroleifolig: OB: Ic. v. 6. p. 12. #. 518 (non 
Lam.). 
A very graceful and desirable stove plant, a native of 
New Spain, according to CavANILLEs, near Acambaro, “ fre- 
quently growing with Martini annua and BartraMIA, and 
more abundantly with Heriantaus giganteus, multiflorus, 
tuberosus, and angustifolius, which occupy so large a space 
in the borders of fields, that the corn growing ag 
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