brown, arising from larger glandular bases ; these increase 

 in number upwards, and are much crowded near the top. 

 Leaves five inches long, three and a half broad, scattered, 

 petioled, oblong, pinnatifid and incised, or oftener bipin- 

 natifid, or almost pinnated, and the pinnae pinnatifid, pubes- 

 cent on both sides, but especially the under, which is paler, 

 with prominent, branching veins, which are a little reticu- 

 lated and channelled above. Peduncles scattered, oppo- 

 site, but never exactly so, sometimes at a considerable 

 distance from the leaves, single-flowered, longer than the 

 upper, but shorter than the larger leaves. Flowers nodding, 

 rather powerfully, and, as some think, pleasantly perfumed. 

 Calyx green, five-parted, segments patent, cordato-ovate, 

 acute, reflexed in their sides, submarcescent. Petals one 

 inch long, reflexed, navicular, hatchet-shaped, cucullate, 

 glandular-pubescent, but sparingly so, except at the claws, 

 reticulated, ciliated along the keel, alternating with white, 

 erect, truncated, obcordate scales, hollow, and opening 

 longitudinally on their inner surface, flat at the apex, there 

 transversely marked with elevated stripes, and each ex- 

 tended into two short, rose-coloured points in the centre of 

 the flower, the stripes reddish-brown on the outside, and 

 more and more greenish-yellow towards the centre. Sta- 

 mens very numerous, about half as long again as the claws 

 of the petals, and lodged, as in all this Genus, within their 

 cavities, and advancing in succession ; filaments white, 

 glabrous; anthers yellow, becoming brown, short, bilob- 

 ular, bursting along the sides ; pollen granular, small, pale 

 yellow. Two abortive, subulate, hooked, pubescent fila- 

 ments, shorter and broader than the others, are placed on 

 the inside of each of the hollow scales, and are at all times 

 erect. Germen unilocular, turbinate, inferior, covered with 

 pungent hairs, its upper surface flat, becoming conical, and 

 rising above the calyx, but there empty, trifid ; ovules 

 numerous, attached to three linear, parietal placentas. 

 Styles three, cohering, their lower half, as well as the upper 

 surface of the germen, covered with hairs. Stigmas very 

 small. 



I cannot see the propriety of changing the Specific Name 

 of Linnaeus to the equally objectionable one of Jacquin ; 

 nor could I have thought the reason assigned by Jussieu for 

 departing from this last sufficient, even though he had not 

 taken a third, which in its turn may be considered inappro- 

 priate. It is very true, that all the species of Loasa are 

 hispid, and all are stinging; but if such be considered a 



cause 



