CUPHEA VISCOCISSIMA. 



CLAMMY CUPHEA. 



Icosandria Digynia, Linn. Salicariae, Juss. Calycanthemae, Vent. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix ventricose, tubular, 6 to 12-toothed, unequal. Petals six, generally unequal, inserted 

 upon the calix. Capsule with the calix bursting longitudinally, 1-celled. Seeds few, 

 lenticular, imbricated. Brown. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Viscous ; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate-oblong ; flowers dodecandrous, lateral, soli- 

 tary, very shortly pedunculated. Willd. and Pursh. 



SYNONYMS. 



Balsamona Pinto, Vandell. fasc. t. 3. 

 Lythrum Cuphea, L. jun. supp. 249. 

 Lythrum petiolatum, Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 867. 



Plant from ten to eighteen inches high. Root annual Stem 

 erect, cylindrical, branched, lake-red, covered with a fine, red, vis- 

 cous glandular pubescence. Branches axillary, numerous, also cylin- 

 drical and lake-red, and covered with a similar clammy investment 



