PLATE DCXXI. 



JUSSIEUA exaltata. 

 Tall Jussieua. 



CLASS VIII or X. ORDER L 



OCTANDRIAseu DEC ANURIA MONOGYNIA. Eight or Ten Stamens. 



One Style. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 4- seu 5-partitus, superus, Petala 4 

 seu 5. Capsula 4- seu 5-locularis, angulis 

 dehiscens. Semina numerosa. 



Cup 4- or 5-parted, above. Petals four or five. 

 Capsule 4- or 5-celled, splitting at the cor- 

 ners. Seeds numerous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Jussieua erecta, pubescens, foliis oblongo-lan- 

 ceolatis pubescentibus punctato-scabris ; 

 floribus 4-petalis 8-andris, stigraate 4-lobo. 



Erect pubescent Jussieua with oblong-lanced 

 pubescent leaves rough with little dots j 

 flowers with 4 petals and 8 stamens, and 

 the stigma four-lob;d. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A petal. 



2. Empalement, seed-bud, and pointal. 



3. The capsule. 



4. A ripe seed. 



5. The same magnified. 



LjnnjEus conld scarcely have selected a happier genus in honour of the great French botanist ; by 

 whose arrangement plants agreeing in general habit and character are not liable to be thrown to various 

 classes for a slight difference in their number of stamens, as in the Linnaean j where octandrous and 

 decandrous plants can only be brought together by special license. 



Of the twelve species of Jussieua enumerated by Willdenow, and the two additional species since 

 described by Humboldt and Bonpland, our plant, communicated from Boyton in September, most re- 

 sembles the octovalvis, of which the Professors Swartz and Jacquin appear to have described very dif- 

 ferent varieties. Ours, however, appears to be specitically distinct from either. 



Mr. Lambert informs us that the plant is a native of the East Indies, from whence the seeds were 

 sent to him by Dr. Roxburgh, with a reference to the Cattu Caramlu of the Hortus Malabaricus, 

 (tom, ii. p. 97, fig. 50,) which is a very fair representation of it. 



The name exuUala, bestowed upon it by Dr. Roxburgh, may have been suggested by comparing it 

 with the two other Indian species, the repens and stiffruticosa ; but the peruviana must be a much 

 ^ller plant, from the account given of it by Father Feuillee, 



