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CAMPYLIA holosericea. 
Silky-leaved Campylia. 
Campy lia. Pet. 5 insequalia: duo superiora majora, 
unguis margine inferiore auriculata. Stam. 5 
sterilia; duo superiora longiora hamata recurva. 
Lindley MSS. 
C. holosericea^ pedunculis paniculatis; umbellis pluri- 
floris, foliis subrotundo-ovatis obtusis duplicato- 
dentatis holosericexs, petalis superioribus orbicula- 
tis, caule fruticoso erecto. 
Campylia holosericea. Noh. in Colv. Catal. p.2\. col. 1. 
Stem shrubby, erect, rugged, occasioned by the 
persistent bases of the petioles and stipules, in our plant 
about 18 inches high. Branches clothed with a dense 
white tomentum. Leaves roundly-ovate, obtuse, clothed 
on both sides with a soft white dense tomentum, doubly 
toothed ; teeth blunt, unequal. Petioles very long, 
slightly flattened on the upper side and rounded below, 
thickly clothed with short soft recurved hairs. Stipules 
cordate, with a long taper point, keeled, the bases re- 
maining persistent. Peduncles branching. Umhels 4- 
to 6-flowered. Involucre generally of 6 bractes ; hractes 
ovate or widely lanceolate, keeled and ciliate. Pedicles 
nodding before the flower expands, and erect when in 
bloom, again descending when in fruit; fruit erect. 
Calyx 5-cleftj segments unequal, concave, the upper 
one ovate, obtuse, keeled, the others lanceolate or 
linear, all thickly covered with short woolly hairs. 
Nectariferous tube very short and blunt, more than 
tliree times shorter than the calyx. Petals 5, the two 
uppermost orbicular, eared on the lower margin of the 
