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• 5. Cuphea decandra. Shrubby Cuphea , 
Shrubby erect very much branched, branches 
towards the extremity compressed and hispidu- 
lous, leaves ovate acute at the bq.se ciliated, 
flowers at the end of the branches few racemose 
subsecund, petals 5 (?)-6, stamens 10. 
Lythrum ciliatum, Swartz , FI. Ind. Occ. 868.*— Cuphea 
decandra. Iiort Few. cd. 2. III. 151. 
II AB. The mountains, not uncommon. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
A shrub about two feet in height ; branches towards 
the end subtet: agonal, minutely hispidulous. Leaves op- 
posite, very shortly petiolate, half an inch in length, with 
apex bluntish, attenuated along the petiole, entire, glabrous 
with exception of the axils of the nerves beneath. Ra- 
ceme terminal, few-flowered : flowers pink, shortly pedi- 
celled, subsecund : pedicels hispidulous. Calyx tubular, 
gibbous on the upper side near the base, 12-striated, ex- 
ternally hispidulous: teeth 0, plicate, erect. Petals 6, 
oblongo-spathulate, clawed, horizontally spreading : the 
four lower petals subcqual ; the two upper ones smaller, 
inserted between the teeth, each on a callous spot below 
the edge of the calyx. Stamens, 10-1 1, unequal : fila- 
ments subulate, hairy : anthers oval. Ovary conical, 
placed on an annular glandular disk : style subulate, 
pubescent : stigma obtuse. On the bursting of the cap- 
sule the seeds are found attached to a columnar placenta : 
they are subrotund, compressed. 
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III . Acisanthera. 
Calyx ventricose 5-fid. Petals 5. Stamens 
10/ with anthers sagittate and versatile. Cap- 
sule covered and crowned with the calyx, subro- 
tund, 2-celled, bi-placentular, many-seeded. — DC. 
Herbaceous. — Name from axis a point., and avdnpa an an - 
(her, on account of the anthers being pointed. 
1. Acisanthera quadrata. 
Acisanthera crccta ramosa, ramulis quadratis, Brownv , 
