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into the inner heads of the partitions.-—- •EJfential C/iaraSfer. 
Calyx wheel-fhaped, in five deep folded fegments. Pe¬ 
tals five, minute, oppofite to the ftamens. Anthene open¬ 
ing by two terminal pores. Capfule fuperior, of three 
cells, and three valves, with the partitions from their 
centre. 
Species, x. Lafiopetalum ferrugineum, or rufty woolly 
bloffom: leaves alternate, linear-oblong, dependent; flow¬ 
ers racemofe. Native of marfhes in New South Wales, 
from whence the feeds were received, in 1791, by Meflrs, 
Lee and Kennedy. It flowers during molt part of the 
fummer, being fheltered in winter in the green-houfe, and 
allowed but a fmall fupply of moifture. Stem fhrubby, 
upright, fiender, round, leafy, clothed with denfe, rufty, 
Larry, pubefcence ; and in its native fituation throwing 
out long, fiender, extreniely-tough, branches, to the ex¬ 
tent, as it is reported, of many yards, amongft other 
fhrubs. Leaves alternate, (talked, dependent, linear-ob¬ 
long; bluntifh, entire or (lightly wavy, from two to four 
inches in length, and half an inch broad ; heart-lhaped, 
rather dilated, and often fomewhat angular at the bafe; 
deep-green and fmoothifh above; white and downy, with 
a rufty rib, beneath. Flowers in fhort, lateral, deflexed, 
.clufters, nearly oppofite to the leaves, with three or more 
linear rufty bractes clofe to each flower ; calyx half an 
inch broad, light green, befprinkled on both fldes with 
denfe, (tarry, rnther-rufty,down; petaisand antheras brown. 
The whole flmib is more remarkable for Angularity than 
beauty. Sometimes, according to Ventenat, the flowers 
are four-cleft and tetrandous only. 
2. Lafiopetalum ledifolium, or rofemany-leaved woolly 
bloffom : leaves oppofite, linear-lanceolate, fpreading; 
(talks fingle-flovvered ; brattes remote from the flower. 
Seen by M. Ventenat in the Herbarium of M. Thibaud, 
profeffor of botany of Strafburgh. We prefume it mult 
be, like the former, and all the known fpecies befides, a 
native of New Holland. 
3. Lafiopetalum purpureum, or purple woolly bloffom: 
leaves oval, entire. Found in New Holland by Mr. Brown. 
Sent to Kew in 1803 by Mr. Good. It is a green-houfe 
Limb, flowering from April to July. 
4. Lafiopetalum arborefcens, or nettle-tree-leaved wool¬ 
ly bloffom : leaves heart-fliaped, deeply toothed. Native 
of New South Wales, from whence it was fent by Mr. 
George Caley in 1802, through fir Jofeph Banks, to Kew. 
It flowers from May to July; and is fheltered in the green- 
houfe. 
5. Lafiopetalum triphyllum, or three-leaved woolly 
bloffom: leaves three together; the middle one largeft, 
and lobed ; ftamens ten, the intermediate ones abortive ; 
petals wanting. Gathered by M. La Billardiere in Van 
Lewin’s Land; by Mr. Menzies at King George’s Sound, 
on the weft coaft of New Holland. It is a Ihrub, kept, 
like others of its genus, in the green-houfe. The whole 
plant is clothed with rather foft (tarry pubefcence, like 
fome of the mallow' tribe, which afluraes a rufty hue on 
the ftalks, and on the veins of the leaves. The foliage is 
remarkable. Three leaves grow on ftalks from one fpot, 
{at the fides of the branches,) of which the middlemolt is 
much the largeft; from one to two inches long, and nearly 
as wide; heart-fliaped at the bafe, more or lefs diftinffly 
five-angled, or iive-lobed, and fomewhat finuated ; its 
footftalk nearly its own length; the fide ones are une¬ 
qually heart-fliaped and entire, on very fliort ftalks, and 
referable ftipulas. Long Ample clufters, of feveral flow¬ 
ers, grow folitarily, oppofite to the large leaves, between 
the fmall ones ; the calyx is blufli-coloured, hairy, with 
pointed foments; anthera: dark brown, with yellow tips; 
the barren ones fmaller and paler. 
6. Lafiopetalum quercifolium, or oak-leaved woolly- 
blofibm : leaves three together, all finuated ; the middle 
one largeft and three-lobed, fomewhat pinnatifid; ftamens 
five; petals wanting. Gathered by Mr. Menzies, at 
King George's Sound, on the weft coaft of New Holland ; 
Mr. Brown alfo oblerved it in that country. Seeds were 
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fent to Kew, by Mr. Peter Good, in 1803. This is moll 
akin to the laft, but abundantly diftinft. The leaves are 
fmaller, fomewhat glaucous, and much moradiarfh, owing 
to the more rigid and prominent ftarry bridles on their 
upper furface ; the three which grow together are more 
fimilar in fize and figure, being all finuated, though the 
middle one is much the nioft deeply lobed ; the edges are 
(lightly revolute. The flowers have their calyx of a deeper 
role-colour, with lefs pointed fegments; no barren ftamens, 
nor any petals are vifible. 
7. Lafiopetalum corniculatum, or horned woolly-blof- 
fom : leaves three together, cut and crenate ; the lateral 
ones very fmall. Petals with linear points as long as the 
calyx. Gathered by Mr. Menzies, at King George's 
Sound. The leaves are more denfely and uniformly hairy 
than in the laft, as well as fofter to the touch. The flow¬ 
ers are racemofe, as in that, but much fmaller; and are ef- 
fentially diftinguiflied by the long prominent linear ap¬ 
pendages, or horns, of their petals, which equal the ca¬ 
lyx in length, and in its dry fhrivelled ftate extend much 
beyond it. Smith in Linn. Tranf. iv. 216. 
LASIOS'TOMA, f. [from the Gr. Xcca-ioq, hairy, fhag- 
gy, and ajopx, a mouth.J In botany, a genus of the clafs 
tetrandria, order monogynia, natural order of apocineae, 
J’lJf. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
one-lenfed, very fliort, five-parted, divilions acute; at its 
bafe two oppofite fcales. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel- 
form ; tube cylindric ; border four-cleft; divilions acute, 
villofe. Stamina: filaments four, capillary ; villofe at the 
bafe, inferted into the tube of the corolla ; antheras ob¬ 
long. Piftillum: germ ovate, fuperior; ftyle longer than 
the corolla ; ftigma obtufe. Pericarpium : capfule orbi- 
culate, one celled, with a brittle b3rk. Seeds : two, he- 
mifpherical .—Ejjcntial CharaBer. Calyx very fliort, five- 
petalled, with two acute fcales; corolla funnel-form, four- 
cleft ; capfule orbiculate, one-celled, two-feeded. 
Lafiofboma ronhamon, a Angle fpecies; the Rouhamon 
Guianenfis of Aublet. It is a fhrub with a trunk feven 
or eight feet in height, and fix or feven inches in diame¬ 
ter, with a greyifh, irregular, rugged, bark, and a whitifh 
wood. Branches and branchlets oppofite, covered with a 
ruffet down, and fpreading over the neighbouring trees. 
The branchlets are knobbed, and at each joint have a 
pair of leaves, which are entire, fmooth, oval, ending in a 
point, and three-nerved underneath ; they are of a very 
pale green, and 011 very fliort petioles ; the largeft are two 
inches long, and an inch and four lines in breadth. Flow¬ 
ers in fmall axillary corymbs, on a fmall peduncle, which 
lias two fcales at the bale ; they are oppofite in pairs, and 
almoft feflile ; corolla white; capfule yellow. From the 
axil of the leaves there fpring at intervals Ample tendrils, 
two inches and a half long, curved back in form of a 
crofs at top, where they become thicker. By means of 
thefe tendrils the branches fupport themfelves on tile 
neighbouring trees. This fhrub is called rouhahamon by 
the Caribs. It is in flower and fruit during the months 
of October and November ; and is found on the banks of 
the river Sinemari in Guiana, forty leagues from its mouth. 
A variety occurs with fmooth branches, larger leaves, 
and fmaller flowers and fruits. It has no tendrils, !>ue 
the branches are ftraight. 
LASK,yi An immoderate loofencfs of the belly. 
LASK, or Las'ico, a town of Warfaw : thirty miles 
north-eaft of Siradia. 
LAS'KET. See Latche. 
LASK'ING,/.' Veering, going with a quarterly wind. 
LAS'NEBOURG, a town of France, in the department 
cf Mont Blanc, on the Arc, at the foot of Mount Cenis, 
the paflage of which is the principal fupport of the inha¬ 
bitants. The fun is hidden from the inhabitants of this 
town by the mountain during two months of the year: 
twenty miles north-north-weft of Sufa, and twenty-three 
eaft of St. Jean de Maurienne. 
LASOY', a town of Thibet:, forty miles north-north- 
weft of Tacpoy. 
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