38 CALYCIFLORifP, 



5. Cuphea decandra. Shrubby Cuphea, 



Shrubby erect very much branched, branches 

 towards the extremity compressed and hispidu- 

 lous, leaves ovate acute at the base ciliated, 

 flowers at the end of the branches few racemose 

 subsecund, petals 5 (?)-6, stamens 10. 



Lythrum ciliatum, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 868.^-Cuphea 

 decandra. Hort Kew. ed. 2. III. 151. 



H AB. The mountains, not uncommon. 



F L. Throughout the year. 



A shrub about two feet in height ; branches towards 

 the end subtett agonal, minutely hispidulous. Leaves op- 

 posite, very shortly petiolate, half an inch in length, with 

 apex bluntish, attenuated along the petiole, entire, glabrous 

 with exception of the axils of the nerves beneath. Ra- 

 ceme terminal, few-flowered : flowers pink, shortly pedi- 

 'celled, subsecund: pedicels hispidulous. Calyx tubular, 

 gibbous on the upper side near the base, 12-striated, ex- 

 ternally hispidulous: teeth 6, plicate, erect. Petals 6, 

 oblongo-spathulate, clawed, horizontally spreading : the 

 four lower petals subequal ; the two upper ones smaller, 

 inserted between the teeth, each on a callous spot below 

 the edge of the calyx. Stamens, 10-11, unequal : fila- 

 ments subulate, hairy: anthers oval. Ovary conical, 

 placed on an annular glandular disk : style subulate, 

 pubescent : stigma obtuse. On the bursting of the cap- 

 sule the seeds are found attached to a. columnar placenta : 

 they are subrotund, compressed. 



III. ACISANTHERA. 



Calyx ventricose 5-fid. petals 5. Stamens 

 10, with anthers sagittate and versatile. Cap- 

 sule covered and crowned with the calyx, subro- 

 tund, 2-celled, bi-placentular, many-seeded. — DC. 



Herbaceous. — Name from aw a point, and avdvpa an an- 

 ther, on account of the anthers being pointed. 



1. Acisanthera quadrata. 



Acisanthera erecta ramosa, ramulis quadratis, Browne, 



