LOAS'A PENTLAND'ICA. 
PENTLAND LOASA. 
Class. 
SYNCENBSIA. 
Natural Order. 
LOASACE®. 
Order. 
®QUALIS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. America. 
3 feet. 
Aug. & Sep. 
Perennial. 
in 1840. 
No. 817. 
The name, Loasa, is supposed to have been 
founded on that of a Spanish botanist ; this is not, 
however quite certain : the original spelling of the 
word by Adanson was Looza. Mention of this 
occurs in the manuscripts of the now lamented 
David Don, who has been for many years Librarian 
to the London Society, and also Professor of Botany 
at King's College, London. Since our last publi- 
cation he has paid the debt of nature, having spent 
a life of activity and usefulness, wholly devoted to 
the science of botany. 
Seeds of this newly-introduced and singular 
species of Loasa were first received in this country 
by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, from Mr. Pent- 
land, after whom it is named. Some of these were 
presented to Messrs. Whitley and Osborn, nursery- 
men, of Fulham, who inform us that the plant is 
perennial ; we had supposed it to be annual only, 
and as as such it may, doubtless, be cultivated ; the 
seeds being sown early in the spring, in a hotbed. 
Mr.Wheeler, of Warminster, obligingly supplied us 
with the specimen represented, with whom it grew 
against a wall and flowered luxuriantly. 
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