Lopezia
(named in honour of Thomas Lopez, a Spanish botanist, who wrote on the botany of America). SYN. Pisaura. ORD. Onagrarieae. A genus (about twenty species have been described) of stove, greenhouse, or hardy erect annual herbs inhabiting Mexico and Guatemala. Flowers often small, racemose or sub-corymbose, at the apices of the branches, remarkable in having but one antheriferous stamen and one petaloid. Leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate-acuminate, unequally serrate. Lopezias are of easy culture in a light soil. Propagated by seeds, sown on a slight hotbed, in the middle of March; the seedlings being transplanted to the open in the latter part of May. L. coronata (crowned).* fl. rose-purple; petals reflexed, deeper coloured towards the base; racemes terminating the branches. July to September. l. alternate, ovate, serrated, attenuated at the base. h. 1 1/2ft. Mexico, 1804. Hardy. (A. B. R. 551.) L. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl. orange-red, disposed in close racemes; sepals erecto-patent; petals sessile. August. l. lanceolate, or ovate-acute, serrate, shortly stalked. h. 3ft. Mexico, 1879. Half-hardy. L. macrophylla (large-leaved).* fl. bright red, large; calyx segments erecto-patent, lanceolate, broader at base; petals, two narrower and longer than calyx, geniculated at base, two broader and shorter; peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered. March. l. opposite, on long petioles, ovate-acuminate, serrated, slightly hairy and ciliated. Branches green and succulent. Mexico. A small half-shrubby greenhouse plant. (B. M. 4724.)