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THALAMI FLORAS. 
Cav. diss. VI. 334. t. 183. f. 1. — De Cand. Prod* I. 441. 
HAB. Common in mountain pastures. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Suffruticose : branches terete, coloured, stellato-hirsute. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, incanescent beneath, 7-nerved with 
a minute glandule like a slit, near the base of the under surface 
of the mid-rib: petiole length of the leaf, terete. Stipules 
linear, ciliated, deciduous. Flowers on a short peduncle, axil- 
lary, subsolitary, pink-coloured, rather large and showy. In- 
volucellum 5— 7-fid: divisions lanceolate, obtuse, stellato-his- 
pid, persistent. Calyx 5-fid ; divisions ovate, acuminate, cili- 
ated. Petals oblong, rounded at the apex, cohering at the base 
to the tube of the filaments. Column of the filaments coloured : 
anthers shortly pedicelled : pollenary globules to the glass mi- 
nutely echinato-puberulous, purpurascent. Ovary depressed, 
hirsute: style 10-fid with the divisions puberulous with capi- 
tate hairs : stigmata 10, crimson, puberulous. Carpels 5, form- 
ing an orbicular depressed capsule, stellato-hispid, armed with 
prickles radiating at the apex with reflected hairs : seeds soli- 
tary. 
Some of the echinated globules of pollen are usually to be 
found entangled in the hairs of the stigmata. 
2. Urena Swartzii. Swartz's Urena. 
Leaves 3-5-lobate pubescent hoary beneath 5-ner- 
ved with 3 of the nerves glandulose on the under 
surface, lobes dentato-sinuated obtuse, capsule echin- 
ated. 
U. sinuata, Swartz, Obs. 264. — U. Swartzii, De Cand. Prod • 
I. 442. 
HAB- Common in moist pastures. 
FL. December, January. 
Suffruticose, a foot or more in height, with branches terete, 
stellato-hispid, tomentulose. Leaves alternate, subcordate, 
3-5-lobed, with the lobes dentato-sinuated, hirsute, somewhat 
hoary beneath, 5- nerved, with 3 of the nerves glandulose near 
the base on the under surface : petioles longer than the leaf, 
terete, hispid. Peduncles axillary, subsolitary, short, 1 -flow- 
ered. lnvolucellum 5-partite: divisions lineari-lanceolate. 
Calyx 5-partite : divisions broad lanceolate, of the same length 
as those of the involucellum. Petals pink-coloured stained with 
purple. Column of the stamens half the length of the petals, 
slightly declinate : anthers 10 ; pollen diaphanous, purpurascent, 
hispidulous. Styles 10, longer than the stamens and bent over 
them : stigmata obtuse, puberulous. Carpels 5, echinated with 
herbaceous prickles armed at the apex with minute radiating 
reverted setae : seed solitary, subreniform, 3-gonal. 
