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CXLIX. HTDROLEACE^. 



Wigandia caracasana. 



Hydrolea. Seed entire and out longitudinally (mag.)- 



often glandular-pubescent or clothed with stinging hairs, or sometimes with axillary 

 spines. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Flowees 5 , regular, solitary or in corymhs 

 or scorpioid spikes. Caltx herbaceous, 6-fid or -partite. Coeolla monopetalous, 

 hypogynous, infundibuliform or sub-campanulate or sub -rotate, limb 5 -fid, aestivation 

 imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube, alternate with its divisions ; 

 filaments filiform-subulate, sometimes dilated and arched at the base ; anthers 



