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four-parted ; four petals, and eight sta- j 

 mens ; and a fleshy clavate-tetragonous : 

 fruit. [J.T.S.] | 



LOTTFF. Luffa cegyptiaca. 



LOUREA. A genus of Leguminosw, of \ 

 the tribe Hedysarece, and nearly allied to 

 Besmodium, hut with a broadly campanu- 

 late calyx, enlarged after flowering, and a 

 pod consisting of two or more joints 

 folded upon each other, as in Uraria. It 

 comprises three or four species, natives of 

 tropical Asia, herbs or undershrubs, with 

 the habit of some Desmodiums. The leaves 

 have one or three leaflets ; the flowers 

 are small, in terminal racemes or panicles. 

 L. vespertilionis, from the Indian Archipe- 

 lago, is remarkable for the form of its 

 leaflets, transversely oblong, and three or 

 four times as broad as long, such as to 

 have been compared to bat's wings. 



LOUREIRA. A name applied to a shrub 

 or small tree, native of Cochin China, in 

 honour of a Portuguese missionary who 

 published a Flora of Cochin China in the 

 latter part of the last century. It is included 

 among Amyridacece, and has ovate entire 

 lemon-scented leaves, and axillary or ter- 

 minal stalked flowers. The calyx is hell- 

 shaped, flve-toothed ; petals Ave, oblong, 

 the lowest one the largest ; stamens ten. 

 The fruit is succulent, with a resinous 

 juice, and one or two seeds. L. glandulosa 

 is grown in hothouses in this country ; it 

 has ovate-acute leaves, thickly heset with 

 glands. [M. T. MJ 



LOUSEBERRY-TREE. Euonymus euro- 

 pceus. 



LOTJSE-BURR. Xanthium Strwmarium. 



LOUSEWORT. Pedicularis. 



LOVAGE. Levisticum officinale; also 

 Achillea ligustica, and a common name for 

 Ligusticum. 



LOVE. Clematis YitaTha. 



LOVE-FLOWER. Agapanthus. 



LOVE-IN-A-MIST. Nigella damascena. 

 — , WEST INDIAN. Passiflora foztida. 



LOYE-IN-A-PUZZLE. Nigella damas- 

 cena. 

 LOVE-IN-IDLENESS. Viola tricolor. 



LOVE - LIES - BLEEDING. Amaranthus 

 caudatus. 



LOVEMAN. Galium Aparine. 



LOVE-TREE. Cercis Siliquastrum. 



LOWEA berberidifolia is a very singular 

 and rare rosaceous plant, native of North- 

 ern Persia, and the Soongari desert, first 

 described by Pallas, and by him referred 

 | to Rosa,, in which genus it is now replaced. 

 ! It is a little shrub, with yellow rose-like 

 i flowers, and simple obovate-cuneate ser- 

 i rated glaucous foliage. It agrees perfectly 

 in the characters of its flowers with Rosa, 

 j but differs strikingly in its foliage. All 

 > true roses have pinnate leaves and stipules, 

 I whereas Lowea has either no leaves or no 



stipules, according to the view taken of the 

 nature of its leafy organs : for it is a mat- 

 ter of doubt whether these are true leaves 

 without stipules, or stipules of suppressed 

 leaves become confluent and putting on 

 the appearance of leaves. In either case 

 it is a remarkable plant. [A. SJ 



LOWRY. Daphne Laureola. 



LOXOGRAMMA. One of the genera of 

 gymnogrammoid ferns, consisting of a few 

 species with simple coriaceous fronds ; 

 uniformly reticulated venation, with free 

 included veinlets in the areoles ; and non- 

 indusiate oblong or linear sori, the oblique 

 receptacles occurring at intervals on each 

 side the midrib. It comes near Selliguea, 

 but has not the pinnate venation found in 

 that genus. [T. M.] 



LOXOSCAPHE. A group proposed to he 

 separated from Davallia, in consequence 

 of the oblique and sublateral position of 

 the sori, which gires to them something 

 of a darasoid character. The ultimate 

 segments of the fronds are narrow, single- 

 veined and soriferous obliquely at the 

 apex, so that the indusium forms with the 

 margin of the segment a short oblique 

 boat-shaped cavity, instead of the usual 

 straight terminal cyst of Davallia, with 

 which in other respects these plants agree. 

 The species are found in South America, 

 South Africa, and the Pacific Islands. L. 

 gibberosa is the type. [T. M.] 



LOXSOMA. A genus of Australian ferns, 

 closely related to Trichomanes, though 

 having none of the pellucid character 

 which belongs to that genus. It has, in 

 fact, creeping rhizomes, with subcoriace- 

 ous decompound fronds, dark above and 

 paler beneath, the general aspect much 

 more nearly resembling that of Davallia. 

 The sori, however, are involucrate in ex- 

 trorse marginal cysts, the veins run out 

 into free filiform receptacles, and the 

 sessile oblique-ringed spore-cases indicate 

 that it should be placed with the Tricho- 

 maninecc. It has free veins. [T. MJ 



LOZANIA. A tree from New Grenada, 

 published as constituting a genus of Vo- 

 chyacece, but as yet very imperfectly known. 



LTJBINIA. A genus of primworts, hav- 

 ing the corolla almost salver-shaped, the 

 border in five deep divisions, the two poste- 

 rior of which are shorter than the others ; 

 the seed ovate, acute at the end, one-celled, 

 and opening by two valves. L. atropitr- 

 purea, the only species, is an annual, a 

 native of Mauritius, with fleshy, smooth, 

 and obovate leaves. [G. DJ 



LUCEE. Some myrtaceous tree whose 

 leaves are used in Guiana for dyeing 

 black. 



LTTCER.NE. Medicago sativa. 



LTJCHE. A Chilian name for Ulva 

 latissima. 

 LUCID. Shining. 



