60 THALAMIFJLOHJE. 



Cav. diss. VI. 334. t. 183. f. l.De Cand. Prod. I. 441. 



HAB. Common in mountain pastures. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Suffruticose : branches terete, coloured, stellato-hirsute. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, incanescent beneath, 7 -nerved with 

 a minute glandule like a slit, near the base of the under surface 

 of the mid-rib: petiole length of the leaf, terete. Stipules 

 linear, ciliated, deciduous. Flowers on a short peduncle, axil- 

 lary, subsolitary, pink- coloured, rather large and showy. In- 

 volucellum 5-7-fid : divisions lanceolate, obtuse, stellato-his- 

 pid, persistent. Calyx 5-fid ; divisions ovate, acuminate, cili- 

 ated. Petals oblong, rounded at the apex, cohering at the base 

 to the tube of the filaments. Column of the filaments coloured : 

 anthers shortly pedicelled : pollenary globules to the glass mi- 

 nutely echinato-puberulous, purpurascent. Ovary depressed, 

 hirsute: style 10-fid with the divisions puberulous with capi- 

 tate hairs: stigmata 10, crimson, puberulous. Carpels 5, form- 

 ing an orbicular depressed capsule, stellate-hispid, armed with 

 prickles radiating at the apex with reflected hairs : seeds soli- 

 tary. 



Some of the echinated globules of pollen are usually to be 

 found entangled in the hairs of the stigmata. 



2. Urena Swartzii. Swartz's Urena. 



Leaves 3-5-lobate pubescent hoary beneath 5-ner- 

 ved with 3 of the nerves glandulose on the under 

 surface, lobes dentato-sinuated obtuse, capsule echin- 

 ated. 



U. sinuata, Swartz, Obs. 264. U. Swartzii, De Cand. Prod, 

 I. 442. 



HAB- Common in moist pastures. 



FL. December, January. 



Suffruticose, a foot or more in height, with branches terete, 

 stellato-hispid, tomentulose. Leaves alternate, subcordate, 

 3-5-lobed, with the lobes dentato-sinuated, hirsute, somewhat 

 hoary beneath, 5-nerved, with 3 of the nerves glandulose near 

 the base on the under surface : petioles longer than the leaf, 

 terete, hispid. Peduncles axillary, subsolitary, short, 1-flow- 

 ered. Involucellum 5-partite : divisions lineari-lanceolate. 

 Calyx 5-partite : divisions broad lanceolate, of the same length 

 as those of the involucellum. Petals pink-coloured stained with 

 purple. Column of the stamens half the length of the petals, 

 slightly declinate : anthers 10 ; pollen diaphanous, purpurascent, 

 hispidulous. Styles 10, longer than the stamens and bent over 

 them : stigmata obtuse, puberulous. Carpels 5, echinated with 

 herbaceous prickles armed at the apex with minute radiating 

 reverted setae : seed solitary, subreniform, 3-gonal. 



