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paANcurnra VELUTINA. VELVETY VANGUERIA. 
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Class and Order. — 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
- nt te 8 Fi 
( Nat. Ord —Rvstcez. ) 
Generic Character. 
_ Cal. 5-dentatus, dentibus patentibus. Cor. campanu- 
lata, limbo patente, fauce pilosa. Stam. tubo inserta, an- 
theris promimentibus. Stigma capitatum. “ Bacca (non 
a 4—}-locularis, 4—5-sperma. Sem. forma Amyg- 
- dale.’’ 
Specific Character. 
Vaneverta * velutina; ubique velutina, foliis cordato- 
ovatis. 
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Descr. A shrub, growing in the stove of the Liverpool 
Botanic Garden to a height of three feet, clothed on the 
stem, leaves, calyx, and exterior of the corolla, with a soft, 
velvety tomentum. Leaves large, opposite, nerved, shortly . 
petiolate, cordato-ovate, rather acute, entire, much waved, — 
most downy beneath. Stipules opposite, from between the 
leaves, large, appressed, broadly oval, obtuse, with a long, 
erect, soft point, very downy. Flowers axillary in the 
lower leaves which soon fall off as the flowers advance. to 
perfection, in short, dense cymes, of a pale, yellowish-green 
colour. Calyx of five linear-lanceolate, spreading, or often 
reflexed teeth. Corolla between campanulate and infundi- 
buliform, the tube broad, the limb in five ovate, spreading 
Segments, the faux almost closed with long, erect hairs. 
‘amens inserted just within the tube : Filaments short, 
3 : ; glabrous : 
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* The Voa-vanguier of the people of Madagascar. 
