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JUSSIEUA OVALIFOLIA. OVAL-LEAVED 
J USSIEUA. 
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Class “id Order. 
Decanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4- s. 5-partitus, superus. Petala4,s.5. Caps 4- 
s. 5-locularis, oblonga, angulis dehiscens. Sem. numerosa, 
-minuta. 7 
Specific Character. 
Jussieva ovalifolia ; caule erecto ramoso, ramis tetragonis 
subulatis foliis ellipticis acuminatis nervoso-venosis 
villosis, calycibus tetraphyllis ovatis acuminatis tri- 
nerviis hirtis. 
Desc. Stem upright, with alternate branches: Branches 
uare: angles somewhat winged, hairy. Leaves alternate, 
elliptical with a short acumen, subsessile, villous, ribbed 
with parallel oblique veins, which inosculate near the 
margin. Germen sessile, axillary, solitary, square, hairy, 
an inch long, a little contracted upwards. Calyx superior, 
four-cleft : leaflets ovate, acuminate, three-nerved, hairy. 
Petals four, orbicular, quite entire, yellow, streaked with 
parallel greenish veins. Stamens eight : Anthers two-celled, 
inserted near the base into a short filament. Style erect : 
ens large, globular, with a cup-like margin at the 
Our figure represents one of the side branches, and, in 
outline, a leaf from the main stem. 
Communicated in July last, by our friend Rosert Bar- 
ciay, Esq. of Bury Hill, who raised it from seeds received 
from Madagascar, under the name of villosa; but it cannot 
be the villosa of Lamarck, nor suffruticosa of Linnazus, We 
have therefore considered it to be an undescribed species. 
