Excerpt from The Botanical Register, Vol. 7: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; With Their History and Mode of Treatment
Leaves Opposite, subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, firm and glossy; margins entire, somewhat thick; faintly 3-nerved; from two to four inches long, and from one to two broad. Peduncles terminal and axillary, sometimes single, sometimes several together, and sometimes, when termi nal, subracemed; long and slender. Eructes opposite, subulate. Calyx from 5 to 7-cleft; segments long, slen der, flliform and smooth. Corolla: tube twice the length of the calyx, subclavate; limb of from 9 to 12, ensiform, spreading segments which are as long as the tube. Sta mina within the tube. Germen 2-celled, with one ovulum in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition. Style and stigma clavate, scarcely reaching to the an thers.
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