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* LOASA lateritia. 

 Red Loasa. 



POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Loasace^:. 



LOASA. Bot. Reg. vol. S.foL 667, 



L. lateritia ; hispida, pungens, scandens, foliis cordatis palmatis pinnatis pinna- 

 tifidisque nunc trilobis ; laciniis grosse serratis, petalis sessilibus carinatis 

 lateritiis, appendiculis trilobis truncatis intus setis duabus membranaceis 

 auctis, capsula torta cylindracea. 



L. lateritia. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3632. 



L. coccinea. Hort. 



A fine climbing species of this striking genus, remarkable 

 for its orange red or bright brick-coloured flowers. It is 

 covered all over with stimuli, or stiff hairs, which sting like 

 those of the common nettle. The foliage varies very much 

 in the degree of division : in the plate above quoted in the 

 Botanical Magazine, the leaves are all represented and de- 

 scribed as pinnated ; in the plants I have seen they are more 

 usually palmated, pinnatifid, or three-lobed, as in the 

 annexed figure. 



It flowers in almost every month of the year, freely out of 

 doors in summer, and pretty well under glass during the 

 remainder of the year. It was first sent me by Mr. Veitch 

 of the Mount Radford Nursery, near Exeter, in October, 

 1837 ; but has already become comparatively common. 



It was originally raised at the Botanical Garden, Glas- 

 gow, from seeds obtained by Mr. Tweedie, in Tucuman. 



Nothing can be more simple than the cultivation of this 

 plant, which may be multiplied either by seeds or cuttings. 



* Meaning unknown. 



