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CAMPY LIA variegata. 
Variegated-flowered Campy lia. 
C. variegata, caule suberecto ramoso ; ramis patentibus, 
foliis ovalibus undulatis inaequaliter dentatis apice trun- 
catis tomentoso-velutinis, stipulis ovatis acutis, pedun- 
culis paniculatis, umbellis 3-5-floris, petalis superio- 
ribus rotundatis inferioribus ovato-oblongis, tubo nec- 
tarifero brevissiino calyce duplo breviore. 
Campylia variegata. Swt. hart. hrit. p. — . 2. ined. 
Stem shrubby, nearly erect, branching; branches 
spreading, thickly clothed with dense wool, and short re- 
flexed hairs. Leaves oval, rounded at the base, some- 
times auriculate, the point truncate, toothed with numerous 
unequal short bluntish teeth, strongly and numerously 
nerved, the nerves much branched, thickly clothed on both 
sides with short close pressed silky hairs, which gives them 
a velvetty appearance. Petioles long and slender, slightly 
flattened on the upper side, and rounded on the lower. 
Stipules ovate, taper-pointed, keeled, clasping the stem, 
sometimes bifid. Peduncles panicled, thickly clothed 
with short tomentum, and small hairs intermixed. Umbels 
3 to 5-flowered. Involucre of si}^ bractes, all united at 
the base ; bractes short, ovate, obtuse, fringed. Pedicles 
long and spreading, bent near th© flower, thickly clothed 
with unequal spreading hairs. Calya? 5-cleft, segments 
erect, ovate, obtuse, concave, keeled at the back, with red 
margins, villous, bearded at the points. Petals 5, the 2 upper 
ones broad, nearly round or slightly emarginate, eared 
just above the short unguis, beautifully variegated with 
white and purple, with a dark velvet patch at the base : 
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