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CAMPYLIA blattaria. 
Downy-leaved Campylia. 
C. blattaria, umbellis multifloris, foliis ovato-subro- 
tundis plicatis incanis holosericeis crenato-dentatis, 
petalis superioribus subrotundis, filamentis pilosis- 
simis, caule fruticoso erecto, foveo nectarifero bre- 
vissimo obsolete. 
Campylia blattaria. Nob. in Colv. Catal. p, 21. col. 1. 
Pelargonium blattarium. Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 2. p. 3. t. 
131. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 654. Pers. syn. 2. p. 
228. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 166. 
Stem shrubby, branching, clothed with brown per- 
sistent stipules. Branches short, erect, thickly clothed 
with short woolly hairs ; flower-stalks elongated. Leaves 
roundly oval, plaited, densely clothed with soft white 
silky hairs, which give them a white shining appear- 
ance, bluntly and unequally notched or toothed, and 
fringed. Petioles very long, nearly cylindrical or a 
little flattened on the upper side, thickly clothed with 
short villous hairs, as are the peduncles, pedicles, and 
calyx. Stipules cordately lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
some entire, others cloven or toothed, at length turn- 
ing brown and remaining persistent. Peduncles very 
long, cylindrical, many-flowered. Involucre of several 
lanceolate keeled acute bractes. Pedicles cylindrical, 
curved. Calyx inflated, 5-cleft, segments unequal, 
concave, obtuse, some nearly round or widely ovate, 
others narrowly lanceolate. Nectariferous pouch very 
short, scarcely any. Petals 5, the two uppermost 
nearly round, of a bright violet colour with a white 
spot near the base, and on one side of it is a short red 
line; lotver petals ligulate. Filaments 10, united at 
