ONAGRARIACE.E. 



4,75 



is a loculicidal and four-valved capsule. 1 Seven or eight species 2 of 

 Lopezia are known ; they are herbs with alternate or opposite leaves, 



Lopczia racemosa. 



Fig. 448. Flower. 



Lopezia racemosa. 



Fig. 447. Floriferous branch. Fig. 449 Diagram. 



accompanied by very small stipuliform and caducous scales ; tbey 

 inhabit the south-west of North 

 America. The flowers are in 

 clusters at the extremities of 

 the branches. 



In Semeiandra grandiflora, 3 a 

 Mexican species, the flowers are 

 those of a Lopezia, and also the 

 fruit ; but the stamens are united 

 with the base of the style in a 

 column adnate also with the an- 

 terior side of the floral receptacle. This character marks it as a very 

 distinct section in the genus Lopczia.* 



Sort. Monac. t. 20.— Bot. Mag. t. 254, 4724. — 

 Will. Rep. ii. 96 ; v. 670 ; Aim. iv. 6S2. 



3 Hook, and Akn. Beech. Voy. Bot, 291, t. 59. 

 — Endl. Gen. n. 6126.— Bot. May. t. 4727.— 

 Walp. Rep. v. 669. 



4 We can here only doubtfully place a Mexi- 



Fig. 450. Dehis 

 cing fruit (}). 



Fig. 452. Long, 

 sect, of seed. 



1 The seeds are often united two and two 

 (fig. 451) in a single mass. Their external 

 coat ifl rugose, granular. 



2 Jacq. Collect, v. t. 15; Jc. Rat: t. 203; 

 Eclog. t. 109, 140.— Bonpl. Jard. Nav. t. 25.— 

 H. B. K. Nov. Gen. el Sp. vi. 95. — Schrask, 



