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BLUMENBACHIA INSIGNIS. PALMATED 
BLUMENBACHIA, 
KEK EERE ERK ERE KR ER 
Class and Order. 
PotyApEtrHiaA PoiyanpriA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Loasez. ) 
Generic Character. 
_ Calycis tubus spiraliter striatus ovario adherens ; limbus 
5-partitus, marcescens. Petala 5, compresso-cucullata, 
Squame 5 petalis alterne, singule filamenta 2 sterilia in- 
cludentes. Stam. plurima in fasciculos 5 petalis oppositos 
disposita. Stylus 1 obtusus. Fructus fungosus in partes 
10 basi spirales dehiscens, 5 alterne tenuiores (dissepi- 
menta), 5 crassiores (valve). Semina plura parieti dissepi- 
mentorum versus axim adfixa, epidermide indusiata, rugosa. 
Herba ramosa, scandens, piloso-pruriens, habitu et inflores- 
centia Loasee, sed fructus structura distincta! Pedunculi 
axillares l-flori bracteati. Flores albi. De Cand. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
BiumEnBAcHia* insignis. , : 
Buumensacuia insignis. Schrad. in Diss. de Blumenbachia. 
p- 9. t. 1. Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. V1. De Cand. 
~ © Prodr. v.3. p. 340. | 
Loasa palmata. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 601. De 
Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 342. . 
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Deser: Stem climbing, much branched, herbaceous, 
four-sided, rising from a perennial root, and clothed, as is 
almost every part of the plant, with small, glandular hairs 
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* So named, by Dr. Scurapsr, after the celebrated German physician, 
Dr. Buumenbacn, — 
