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HYDROLEA spinosa. 
Thorny Hydrolea. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CONVOLYULI. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. H. Styli plures. 
HypRoLEAcem. Ordo Polemoneaceis affinior quam Convol- 
vulaceis. Brown bot. of congo. 32. 
Oxs. Corrugatio cotyledonum definito seminum numero semper comitata 
est, ideoque ex Convolvulaceis amandavi HypRoLEAM, NAmAm, Saco- 
NEAM ef DIAPENSIAM, utroque charactere orbatas; necnon RETZIAM cujus 
semina pauciora subdejinita, sed embryone recto, teretiusculo intra albumen 
carnosum incluso instructa, et habitus diversissimus. Brown prod. 1. 482. 
HYDROLEA. Cal. 5-partitus, persistens. Cor. rotato-campanulata, 
limbo 5-rariiis 6-aut 7-fido, patente. Stam. 5, inclusa. Filamenta basi di- 
latata. Anth. sagittate. Styli 2, rarils 3. Stigmata truncata. Caps. sub- 
globosa, 2-rarids 3-locularis, loculicido-bi-rarids trivalvis; placente 2, ra- 
rils 8 (una in quolibet loculamento), magna, hemisphzricz, per lamellam dor- . 
salem in axi capsule ad dissepimentum affixe, ubique seminiferz. 
Herbe suffruticose, spinose, piloso-glutinose, spinis axillaribus. Folia 
alterna integra. Flores axillares et terminales cerulet. Kunth nov. gen. et 
spec. 3. 98. 
H. spinosa, floribus terminalibus, subcorymbosis; capitellis hirtellis. Kunth 
nov. gen- et spec. 3. 98. 
Hydrolea spinosa. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 328. Aubl. guian. 1. 281. ¢.110. Willd. 
sp. pl. 1. 1827. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 108. 
ydectes trigyna. Swartz fl. ind. occid. 1. 558. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1827. 
Spina di Vagra. Araguensium; (fide Kunth). 
Hierba del cancer. Popayanensium; (fide Kunth.) 
Frutex ramis hirsutis. Preefloratio imbricata. Cal. profunde 5-rariis 6- 
partitus, externe pilosus pilis diaphanis, septis transversis articulatis ; laci- 
niis lanceolatis, acutis, integerrimis, subinequalibus, 1-nervits, viridibus. 
Cor. campanulato-rotata, glabra, cerulea, calycem superans; tubo brevi in- 
fundibuliformi; limbo 5-partito, patente, lacintis subrotundo-ovatis, obtusis, 
integerrimis, equalibus, fiabellato-venosis. Stamina medio tubo inserta, co- 
rolla breviora, equalia; fil. lineari-subulata, membranacea, glabra, bast dila- 
tata; anth. dorso affixe, incumbentes, oblongo-lineares, obtuse, bast bifido-sa- 
gittate, biloculares, longitudinaliter interne dehiscentes. Germ. oblongum, 
superné pilosiusculum, disco orbiculart integro glabro impositum: styli 2, lon- 
gitudine staminum, filiformes, glabri, cerulei; stigmata incrassata, oblique 
truncata. Caps. subglobosa acuta stylis coronata, calyce suffulta eumque 
subequans, magnitudine Pisi majoris, glabra, apice hirtella, tenuis, diaphana, 
bilocul., loculicido-bivalvis; placente 2 (1 in quolibet loculo) magne, hemi- 
spherice, verrucose, per lamellam dorsalem angustam dissepimento affixe.; 
sem, creberrima, minutissima. Kunth l. c. 
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Introduced from the West Indies by Mr. Alex. Anderson 
in 1791: and lately received from the Brazils by Mr. Lee 
