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Loasa nitida ; prostrata, foliis cordato-lobatis dentatis supra 
nitidis; superioribus sessilibus, pedunculis axillaribus. 
Lam. Encycl. 3. p. 581. Juss. in Anndles du Mus. 5. 
p. 25. t.2. f. 2. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1177. 
The genus Loasa first occurs in Apanson’s Familles des 
Plantes ; but the characters were better ascertained by 
Jacauin in his Observationes Botanicz ; from whose autho- 
rity only, it appears to have been inserted into the twelfth 
edition of Linnaus’s Systema Nature, where the ortho- 
graphy is changed to Loosa, perhaps by an error of the 
press only; but continued in the future editions, and by 
Scureser in his Genera Plantarum; the original spelling is, 
Owever, restored by Jussieu, Lamarck, and WiLLDENow. 
he name is supposed to have been given by Apanson, in 
onour of some unknown Spanish botanist. 
The genus was at first added by Jussieu to his natural 
order of Onagre; but has been since raised by him into a 
Separate family, under the name of Loasex, containing, 
besides the present genus, only Menrzexis, its near ailinity 
With which was remarked by Jacquin. 5 
