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P H L Ó X peuduliflorii.
Nodding-Jlowered Lychnidea.
Linnean Class and Order. P E N T A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. P 0 L EM 0N IA C E A 3 . D . Don obs. on Polem. p . ■
P H L O X . Supra fol. 7. series 2.
P . penduliflora, caule subflexuoso obsolete quadrangolo scabro-pubescente
maculato, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis subsessilibus : supra glabris
nitidis ; margine et nervis subtus scabris, corymbis multifloris paniculatis
ante anthesin nutautibus, calycibus pubescentibus ; laciniis lanceolatis
mucronatis, corollæ laciniis rotundatis imbricatis.
P h lo x penduliflora. Swt. hort. brit. ed. 2. p . 308. Penny hort. eps. p . 38.
Stems from 3 to 4 feet high, more or less flexuose, slightly
and bluntly quadrangular, spotted with numerous small
purple spots, very rough, occasioned by a short rigid pubescence
; young ones hairy. Leaves tapering to a long slender
mint, nearly sessile: lower ones narrowly lanceolate, and
lairy at the base, and on the nerves underneath : upper ones
cordately ovate, the intermediate ones oblongly lanceolate,
all tapering to a slender point, smooth and glossy on the
upper side, but pale underneath ; margins and midrib underneath
very rough. Flowers of a light rosy purple, in a close
panicle, sweet-scented. Corymbs several-flowered, rather
crowded, nodding before the flowers expansion. Bractes lanceolate,
terminated by a sharp brownish point. Pedicles short,
pubescent, the hairs in small tufts, short and rigid. Calyx
pubescent, 5-toothed or 5-cleft, 5-angular, more or less tinged
with purple, and membranaceous between the angles,
the teeth or segments erect, broadly lanceolate, and terminated
by sharp brown mucrones. Corolla tubular, with a
5-cleft spreading limb : tube a little curved, smooth, purple,
more than twice the length of the segments of the limb : laci-
niee very broad and rounded, very much imbricate. Stamens
5, inserted in different parts of the tube, two a little exserted:
pollen golden yellow. Ovarium smooth. Style smooth, very
long and slender, exserted beyond the flower. Stigma trifid,
the segments obtuse, slightly fimbriate, spreading.
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