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LOASA wniripa. 
Shining-leaved Loasa. 
POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA (rather than Polyandria Monogynia ).—N at. 
Orv. LOASEE (Genus Onagrariis affinis, Juss. Gen.) 
Gen. Cuar.—Cal. pentaphyllus. Cor. pentapetala. Nectarium pentaphyl- 
lum. Capsula semi-infera, monolocularis, semivalvis, polysperma.—Pers. 
Loasa nitida ; hispida, foliis oppositis cordato-lobatis angulato-dentatis 
petiolatis superioribus sessilibus, pedunculis axillaribus. 
L. nitida, Lam. Encycl. vol. iii. p. 581.—Wi.xp. Sp. Pi. vol. ii. p. 1177.—Juss. 
in Ann. du Mus. v. 5. p. 25.—Prrs. Syn. Pl. v. ii. p. 71.—Bot. Mag. t. 2372. 
L, tricolor, Bot. Reg. t. 667.? . 
Apparently an annual plant, with a straggling, weak, succulent, and fragile 
, of two or three feet high, branched in a dichotomous manner, and, 
as well as the whole plant, clothed with longish hairs, which appear, 
n under a microscope, to be jointed, and to have short ‘ellecesd 
bristles, and still larger hairs or stings, seated upon a swollen sac or bag 
of poison, similar to what is seen in the stings of the Common Nettle. 
Leaves all opposite, somewhat five or seven lobed, with the lobe angular 
and toothed, the lower ones much the largest, placed on long footstalks ; 
the upper ones sessile, smaller, and less distinctly lobed. 
Flowers axillary, generally solitary, pedunculated. ~ Peduncles at first erect, 
after flowering Hi i i i 
base, waved at the margin, at first spreading, then bent back. 
Crown of five, broadly ovate scales, red below, white upwards, where 
there are two light depressions, and bidentate, somewhat pubescent at 
subtriangular, toothed, red, fleshy appenda , each at its upper margin 
furnished with a yellowish-higwn, . vate Saat: On ag peepee 
side, the margins of these scales are seen to be curved in, and to contain 
two filamentose bodies, curved and slightly pubescent at the base, about 
cs in length to the scale, and bearing on one side a purplish filament, 
which exceeds the scale in height. Stamens about ten in each bundle 
at nt do 
of the corolla, at length gradually springing upwards, and lying against 
the style and stigma, between the scales of the nectar j 
Anthers yellow, ovate. Pollen oblong when dry, spherical when moist, 
nd always marked with a central line. Germen inferior, or nearly so: 
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ceptacles with the sutures, rather large, fleshy. S 
veral on each cle, longish, oblong, shed on one side, wrinkled, 
white, waxy and horny, and enclosing in its 
- Albumen een waxy 
centre a cylindrical straight embryo, slightly thickened upwards. 
, Raised in the stove of our Botanic Garden, from seeds sent 
by*Mr CruiksHanks from Chili; and being no doubt the 
Same species as the individual above quoted in the Botanical 
Magazine. “In general appearance, too, this plant sufficiently 
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