MAY 4-1907 
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CAMPYLIA laciniata. 
Jagged-leaved Campylia. 
LIBRARY 
NEW YORK 
BOTANICAL 
garden. 
C. laciniata , caule suflruticoso, foliis ovatis subtripartitis 
laciniatis pubescentibus: segmentis inciso-dentatis, sti- 
pulis ovatis acuminatis ciliatis, peduneulis subtrifloris, 
petalis superioribus rotundo-obovatis venosis, tubo nec- 
tarifero calyce parum breviore. 
Stem suffruticose, ascending, branched: branches short 
and stout, thickly clothed with soft downy hairs. Leaves 
variable, generally three-parted, ovate, deeply cut and jag¬ 
ged, attenuated towards the base, densely clothed with short 
hairs on both sides, of a palish green colour* upper seg¬ 
ment much the largest, ovate, deeply cut and jagged, and 
toothed with sharpish unequal teeth, that are slightly callous 
at the point: lower segments narrow, oblongly linear, more 
or less cut and toothed, divaricately spreading. Petioles 
slightly flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, 
thickly clothed with unequal white hairs. Stipules ovate, 
taper-pointed, fringed, and attached to the base of the pe¬ 
tioles, where they become more or less persistent. Flower- 
stems slender, leafy, divaricately spreading. Peduncles 
two or three-flowered, thickly clothed with spreading unequal 
white hairs. Involucre of 6 ovately-laneeolate, acute brac- 
tes, that are densely hairy, fringed, and bearded at the points. 
Pedicles long, cylindrical, purplish, clothed with spreading 
white hairs and short down intermixed. Calyon 5-cleft, the 
segments oblong, bluntish, very hairy, longitudinally veined, 
the upper one broadest. Nectariferous tube scarcely so 
long as the calyx, flattened and keeled at the sides, running 
gradually into the pedicle, pale purple. Petals 5 ; the two 
upper ones much the broadest, roundly obovate, tapering to 
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