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ent. Petals of the same number as the Calycine 

 lobes, patent. Stamens twice the number of the 

 petals, deciduous with the petals. Style short, 

 filiform: stigma capitate, 4-G-sulcated. Capsule 

 4-8-celled, oblong, crowned with the calyx : seeds 

 very numerous, naked. 



Herbaceous plants, rarely shrubby, natives of marshy 

 situations. Leaves alternate. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 sessile or shortly peduncled, yellow, rarely white. — 

 Named by Linnaeus in memory of Antoine de Jussieu, 

 Demonstrator of p'ants in the Royal Gardens at Paris, 

 and uncle of the celebrated Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, 



* Pentapetalous, decandrous. 

 1. Jussiaea Swartziana, Swartz's Jussitea. 



Herbaceous creeping glabrous, leaves oblongo 

 — obovate somewhat blunt, flowers pedicelled bi- 

 callose at the base, calycine tube roundish atten- 

 uated at the base, lobes 5 lanceolate acute of 

 nearly the same length as the obovate petals. 



CEnothera herbacea repens, Browne, Jam. 208 ? — Jus- 

 sieua repens, Swartz. Obs. 172. — Jusiisea Swartziana. 

 DC. Prod. III. 54. 



HAB. In marshy wet land. Common along the mar- 

 gin of the Lngoon, Ferry-road. 



FL. September. 



Stem procumbent, rooting towards the base, afterwards 

 ascending. Leaves alternate, petiolate, obtuse, at;en- 

 uated at the base, an inch and a half in length. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, solitary, of the same length as the peii<>!e, 

 one-flowered: a pair of minute sub-opposite callous like 

 bracteoles beneath the ovary. Flowers yellow. Caly- 

 cine tube adhering to the ovary, terete, striated : lobes 5, 

 lanceolate, of nearly the same length as the petals. Pe- 

 tals 5, obovate, rounded. Stamens 10. Style erect ; 

 stigma capitate ; an annular hairy glandule crowning the 

 ovary, on which the stamens are inserted. Capsule 

 about an inch in length, oblong, crowned ; seeds nume- 

 rous, angulated, longitudinally arranged in five rows. 



