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Littonia (Dr. Samuel Litton, professor of botany in Dublin). Liliaceae. One species is one of the so-called climbing lilies.

Tender, tuberous plants: fls. 6-parted, but in Littonia the segms. are not reflexed like a cyclamen, as in Gloriosa (which is another climbing lily), nodding, bell- shaped, orange or yellow, mostly 1 in. or more across; segms. oblong, acuminate; stamens 6, attached at base of perianth-segms.: caps. 3-celled; seeds scarlet or brown, about the size of a sweet pea, round, arranged in 2 series.—Species about 6, Arabia, S. Afr. and Trop. Afr.; most of them are erect not climbing herbs.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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