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CUPHEA ParviFLora. 
Small-flowered Cuphea. 
DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Onn. SALICARIA. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyx 6-12 dentatus, basi hine gibbosa. Petala 6, calyci in- 
serta. Capsula 1-locularis, hinc cum calyce longitudinaliter dehiscens. 
—Br. in Hort. Ken. 
Cuphea parviflora; suffruticosa, caule erecto pubescente, foliis elliptico- 
lanceolatis basi in petiolum brevem attenuatis subintegerrimis mar- 
ginibus subciliatis, floribus racemosis terminalibus. 
Stem, in the present plant, scarcely exceeding 8 inches in height, suffruti- 
cose, and, as well as the numerous branches, glanduloso-pubescent. 
Leaves opposite, elliptico-lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely toothed at the mar- 
gins, below attenuated into a short petiole, and, when seen under a lens, 
appearing obscurely ciliated. Flowers in small racemes at the extremity 
of the branches, with one or two small leaf-like bracteas at the base of 
each raceme. Petiole twice or thrice as long as the calyx. Calyz cylin- 
drical, oblique, gibbous at the base on one side, slightly spreading at 
the mouth, and there furnished with 6 red teeth: it is of a pale green 
colour, marked with 12 elevated dark green strie, within woolly near 
the mouth. Petals 6, nearly erect, lanceolate, small, inserted by their 
minute claws upon the inner margin of the calyx, alternating with the 
teeth, purple, subundulated. Stamens very small, 12 in number, insert- 
ed within the calyx above the middle, and apparently on the same line, 
two on the upper or gibbous side abortive. Filaments subulate, red, 
hairy below. Anthers 2-celled, fixed by their backs. Pistil single, as 
long as the calyx. Germen cylindrical, with a large roundish gland or 
nectary in the front at the base; within 1-celled, having the ovules at- 
tached to a central receptacle. Style filiform. Stigma small, capitate. 
* 
Introduced to the Botanic Garden of Glasgow by C. S. 
Parker, Esq. from Demerara, whence he sent seeds in 1824, 
which flowered in the stove during the month of October of 
the same year. 
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