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Mostly herbs, frequently twining, with opp. or alt., rarely slip., 1. 

 The epidermis bears hairs of various kinds; esp. common are grapple- 

 hairs and stinging-hairs. Fls. usu. in cymes, often sympodial, yellow 

 (rarely white or red), 5 , usu. j-merous. Receptacle deeply hollowed 

 out, so that the fl. is epig. K 5, imbr. ; C 5, free or united ; A 5 oo . 

 In the genera with oo sta. there is much difference as to the arrange- 

 ment. In Mentzelia they are evenly distributed round the style, the 

 outermost in some sp. being sterile. In other gen. it is the ante- 

 sepalous sta. that are sterile, and in some, e.g. Loasa, Blumenbachia, 

 3 or more of the stds. are united to form a large coloured nectary, 

 whose mouth is towards the centre of the fl. and partly obstructed by 

 the other stds. G i or more commonly (3 5), with parietal plac. ; 

 ovules i, several, or oo, anatr., with one integument ; style simple. 

 Fr. various, often a caps., sometimes spirally twisted. Endosp. or 

 not. Chief genera: Gronovia, Mentzelia, Loasa, Blumenbachia. 



Loaseae (/?.#". ) = Loasaceae. 



Lobe (1.), portion of a divided (not cpd.) 1. or stigma. 



Lobelia Plum, ex L. Campanulaceae (in). 220 trop. and temp. ; 2 in 

 Brit., one in lakes (L. Dort manna L.); several cult. orn. fl. The fl. 

 (see fam.) is twisted upon its axis through 180, and is -j- . The 

 anthers are syngenesious as in Compositae, and the style pushes 

 through the tube thus formed, driving the pollen out at the top. 

 Finally it emerges, the stigmas separate, and the ? stage begins. [See 

 fam. and cf. Campanula, Phyteuma, Jasione and Compositae.] 



Loblolly bay, Gordonia Lasianthus L. ; - pine, Finns Taeda L. ; 

 - sweetwood (W.I.), Sciadophyllum; -tree (W. I.), Cupania, Pisonia. 



Lobogyne Schlechter. Orchidaceae (n. a. in). 2 New Guinea, Poly- 

 nesia. 



Lobostemon Lehm. Boraginaceae (iv. 5). 50 S. Afr. 



Lobostephanus N.E. Br. (Emicocarpus p.p. EP.). Asclepiadaceae 

 (n. i). i S. Afr. 



Lobularia Desv. (Alyssum p.p. BH.}. Cruciferae (4). 4 Medit. 



Locellate, divided into small compartments. 



Lochia Balf. f. Caryophyllaceae (i. 4). i Socotra. 



Loclimium (01.), a thicket formation. 



Lochnera Reichb. (Vinca p.p. Bff.). Apocynaceae (i. 3). 3 trop. 

 L. rosea Reichb., one of the commonest trop. weeds. 



Lockhartia Hook. Orchidaceae (n. 19). 20 trop. Am., W.I. No 

 tubers; 1. crowded together. 



Loculament, loculus, a cavity in the ovary, usu. containing ovules ; 

 loculicidal (fr.), splitting down midrib of each cpl. 



Locust, honey-, Gleditsckia; -tree, Robinia Pseudacacia L. (W. I.), 

 Byrsonima, Hytnenaea. 



Loddigesia Sims. Leguminosae (ill. 3). i S. Afr. 



Lodh bark, Symplocos racemosa Roxb. (India). 



Lodhra Guill. =Symplocos Jacq. p.p. (Symploc.). 



Lodicularia Beauv. = Hemarthria R. Br. (//.). = Rottboellia L. f. 



Lodicule, Gramineae. 



Lodoicea Comm. Palmae (n). i Seychelles, L. SecheUarum Labill., 

 the double coco-nut or Coco de mer. Dioec. The fr. is one of the 

 largest known and takes 10 years to ripen. The nut is bilobecl. The 



