CUPHEA VISCOCISSIMA.
CLAMMY CUPHEA.
Icosandria Digynia, Linn. Salicariae, Juss* Calycafithemae, Vent.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix ventricose, tubular, 6 to 12-toothed, unequal. Petals six, generally unequal,
inserted upon the calix. Capsule with the calix bursting longitudinally,
1-celled. Seeds few, lenticular, imbricated. Brown.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Viscous ; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate-oblong; flowers dodecandrous, lateral,
solitary, v ery shortly pedunculated. Willd. and Pursh.
SYNONYMS.
B a l sa m o n a Pinto,. Vandell. fasc. t . 3 .
L ythrum Cuphea, L . jun. supp. 249.
L y t h r u m petiolatum, Willd. Sp. PI. 2 . p. 867.
Plant from ten to eighteen inches high. Root annual. Stem
erect, cylindrical, branched, lake-red, covered with a fine, red, viscous,
glandular pubescence. Branches axillary, numerous, also cylindrical
and lake-red, and covered with a similar clammy investment
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