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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, 4-6-sulcated. Capsule 
4-6-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 while. — 
Named by Linnseus in memory of Antoine de Jussieu, 
Demonstrator of plants in the Royal Gardens at Paris, 
and uncle of the celebrated Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. 
* Pentapetalous, decandrous . 
1. Jussisea Swartziana, Swartz’s Jussicea 
icea. 
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 hcrbacea repens, Browne, Jam. 208 ? — Jus- 
sieua repens, Swartz. Obs. 172. — Jussisea Swartziana. 
DC. Prod. 111. 54. 
II A B. In marshy wet land. Common along the mar- 
gin of the Lagoon, Ferry-road. 
FL, September. 
Stem procumbent, rooting towards the base, afterwards 
ascending. Leaves alternate, petiolate, obtuse, atten- 
uated at the base, an inch and a half in length. Pedun- 
cles axillary, solitary, of the same length as the petiole, 
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, 
