. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. NAMA L. Sp. PI. 226. 1753. [Hydrolea L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 328. 1762.] Perennial herbs, some tropical species shrubby, with alternate entire leaves, sometimes with spines in their axils, and blue cymose-clustered or racemose flowers. Calyx-segments distinct to the base, ovate or lanceolate. Corolla rotate-campanulate, not appendaged within, 5-cleft, the lobes im
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. NAMA L. Sp. PI. 226. 1753. [Hydrolea L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 328. 1762.] Perennial herbs, some tropical species shrubby, with alternate entire leaves, sometimes with spines in their axils, and blue cymose-clustered or racemose flowers. Calyx-segments distinct to the base, ovate or lanceolate. Corolla rotate-campanulate, not appendaged within, 5-cleft, the lobes imbricated in the bud. Stamens inserted on the base of the corolla; fila- ments filiform, dilated below; anthers sagittate. Ovary 2-celled (rarely 3-celled) ; ovules numerous in each cavity, on fleshy adherent placentae; styles 2, rarely 3, slender or filiform, distinct to the base; stigma capitellate. Capsule globose or ovoid, septicidally or irregularly dehiscent About 15 species, natives of warm and tropical regoins of both the Old World and the New. Besides the following, another occurs in the southern United States. Type species: Nama zeylanica L. Leaves lanceolate; flowers mostly in axillary clusters. Glabrous, or very nearly so, throughout; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate. 1. N. affinis. Villous, at least above, and on the calyx; sepals lanceolate. 2, N. quadrivalvis. Leaves ovate; flowers mostly in terminal clusters ; sepals villous. 3. N. ovata. i. Nama affinis (A. Gray) Kuntze. Smooth Nama. Fig. 3499. Hydrolea affinis A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 370. 1867. Nama affinis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 435. 1891. Glabrous or very nearly so throughout, with or without slender spines in the axils; stems ascending, l°-2j<' high. Leaves ob- long-lanceolate, petioled, acute or acumi- nate at both ends, 2-5' long, 4"-%" wide; flowers 6"-y" broad, short-pedicelled, in rather dense peduncled leafy-bracted axil- lary clusters; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceo- late, acute or a
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