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Lopezra Racemosa. MEXICAN Lopezia. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
* - Monanpria Monoeynta. 
; Generic Chara€fer. 
_ Cal. 4-phyllus.. Cor. irregularis, pentapetala, duo fuperiora 
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geniculata, quintum inferne declinatum, plicatum, ungue’ 
arcuata. : sf a ce eee 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
. LOPEZIA racemofa caule herbaceo ramofo; foliis alternis | 
ah ovato-lanceolatis, ferratis; floribus racemofis. — 
wis Cavanilles Ic. et defer. Pl. 
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‘Some plants have a claim on our attention for their utility, 
fome for their beauty, and fome for the. fingularity of their 
ftru€ture, and the wonderful nature of their ceconomy ; in the 
laft clafs we'muft place the prefent plant, the flowers of which 
We recommend to the examination of fuch of our readers as 
May have an opportunity of feeing them; to the philofophic 
Mind, not captivated with mere fhew, they will afford a moft _ 
licious treat. 5 ase 
We firft faw this novelty in flower, towards the clofe of the 
year 1792, at the Apothecaries Garden, Chelfea, where 
Mr. Fatrsatrn informed me, that he had that feafon raifed. 
feveral plants of it from feeds, communicated by Dr. J. E. 
2MiTH, who received them from Madrid, to which place they | 
Were fent from South-America, and where the plant as — 
onf. Cavaniuie informs us, grows {fpontaneoully near 
Mexico, In O&ober 1793, we. had the pleafure of feeing 
__ this plant again in bloffom in the aforefaid garden, raifed frome ce 
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