. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1746 STREPTOCARPUS polydntlia, Hook. Hairy: as compared with -S. Sauit- dersii, the leaf is smaller and the fls. bluer and borne in a compound racemose panicle: corolla-tube curved, shorter than the large, wide-spreading toothed pale blue limb. Natal, Orange Colony. B.
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1746 STREPTOCARPUS polydntlia, Hook. Hairy: as compared with -S. Sauit- dersii, the leaf is smaller and the fls. bluer and borne in a compound racemose panicle: corolla-tube curved, shorter than the large, wide-spreading toothed pale blue limb. Natal, Orange Colony. 4850. G41pini, Hook. f. Hairy: leaf ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire : scapes several to many, glandular-pubescent: fls. short and broad, being nearly or quite bell-shaped, the limb broad and subequal, rich mauve, with a white eye. Transvaal. 7230. 111. for Ernest E. Galpin, who discovered the plant. Wtodlandii, Damman. Fig. 2433. Hairy, usually bearing a rosette of very small Ivs. at the base of the radical one: leaf broad, often becoming 24 x30 in., some- times narrower, rounded at both ends, crenate-undu- late, red-purple beneath: scapes several, forking, bear- ing paniculate racemes: corolla-tube about 1 in. long, curved, pubescent, the limb large and oblique, with broad entire lobes, the whole effect violet-blue and whitish. Transvaal, Natal. 7447 (part of which is copied in Fig. 2433). III. 22:275. Gn. 45, p. 511; 50, p. 394. . III. 28 the finest species yet introduced. BB. Leaves several, rising from the crown. Kexii, Lindl. Fig. 2434. Hairy: Ivs. ovate-oblong, â¢6-9 in. long, short-stalked, obtuse, crenate: scapes sev- eral, 3-8 in. tall, 1-fid. or rarely 2-fld.: fls. 2 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, the tube downy and nearly white, the large spreading limb pale blue to purple. S. Afr. 14:1173. 3005. 14:1305. parvifldra, E. Mey. Soft-hairy all over except the co- rolla: Ivs. ovate, obtuse, sessile or nearly
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