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THE SMALL-MOUTHED SIPHOCAMPYL. 
It is certainly a very pretty plant, and worth gromng where stove plants can be well managed, 
especially since its glowing crimson flowers appear in midwinter ; but it is apt to be the resort of 
the mealy bug, which seems to enjoy itself on its tliin naked skin. 
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from which, indeed, it is chiefly distinguished by its downy corolla and oblong leaves. 
to the peculiarly contracted orifice of the corolla, to which it owes its specific name, either Wiat is m 
some measure accidental, or the plants vary greatly with regard to it. In the specimen now figured 
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within the corolla^ as is often the case^ in the plant 
^ folly protruded; so that such circumstances canitot be 
^garded as having 
