32 PLANTAE AMERICANA!. 



In paucis floribus vidi flores mafc. folos abf- 

 que femineo, fed rarum eft. 

 93. SIDA crifpa capfulis globofis inflatis etc* 

 Radix forte annua. 



Catties tri-vel quadripedales, mox a bafi ramofi, 

 debjles, ramis longitudine caulis, confirnili- 

 bus, debilibus, longis, flliformibuf, patenti- 

 bus, glabris, interdum levifTime pubefcenti- 

 bus. 



Folia alterna, cordata, acuminata, tenera* gla- 

 briufcula, venofa, margine crenata, crenjs 

 latis obtufis ; inferiora petiolata ; fuperiora 

 fubfeffilia, duplo minora. Petioli teretes, 

 fubpubefcentes. Stipulae breves, fubulatae, 

 parvae. 



Flores in ramulis brevibtis, lateralibus: latera- 

 les altefni, folitarii vel ex apice pedicelli. 

 Fednnculus capillaris, patens, fimplex, verfqs 

 apicem articulo inftru&us, exteriore Jeviter 

 crafliore, fubpubefcenti. 



Cal. Perianthhm monophyllum, patens,. con- 

 vexum, quinque angulis ad bafin angula- 

 tum, quinquefidum. : laciniis ovatis^cutis, 

 albefcenti-canis. . 



Cor. catyce fefquidupk) longior, plana, pa- 

 tens : petalis fubrotundis, 



Stam. plura, in coiumnam connata teretem, 

 poftea divifa, patenti-incurva,: corolla bre- 

 . vviosa. Anther ae fubrotundae. 



PiST. 



