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CAMPYLIA verbasciflora.
Mullein-flowered Campy lia.
C. verbasciflora, umbellis 3-5 florisve, foliis subrotundo-
ovatis obtuse duplicato-dentatis margine undulatis
recurvis, stipulis acuminatis, petalis superioribus
subrotundis, caule suffruticoso adscendente, tubo
nectarifero calyce triplo breviori.
Campylia verbasciflora. Nob. in Colv. Catal. p. 21.
col. 1.
Geranium verbasciflorum. Andrews's G er an. c. ic.
Stem suffruticose, scarcely strong enough to support
itself without assistance ; branches thickly clothed
with unequal villous hairs, as are the petioles, peduncles,
pedicles, and calyx. Leaves roundly oval,
obtusely and doubly toothed, clothed on both sides
with a short soft dense silky tomentum, margins waved
and rolled backwards. Petioles very long, flattened
on the upper side and convex on the lower, often
twisted. Stipules lanceolate, keeled, sometimes toothed,
joined together at the base. Peduncles 3 to 5 flowered.
Involucre of 6 cordate acute fringed bractes.
Pedicles curved a little upwards when in flower, but
declining when in fruit; fru it erect. Calyx inflated,
globularly oblong, segments 5, unequal, concave, the
upper one ovate, bluntish, 3-nerved, the others oblong
or lanceolate and more pointed. Nectariferous tube
about three times shorter than the calyx, flattened on
each side and gibbous at the base. Petals 5, the two
uppermost nearly round, waved, of a pale lilac colour
with a white spot at the base, and in that is a short
forked purplish mark ; unguis eared on the lower mar-
von. n. / Q