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Hoffmannia (Georg Franz Hoffmann, 1760 or 1761-1826, professor of botany at Goettingen). Including Campyl6botrys and Higglnsia. RubiAceae. Tropical American herbs or shrubs, with opposite or verticillate leaves and small white, yellow or red flowers, cultivated for the very showy foliage.

Branches either terete or 4-angled: lvs. simple: corolla tubular, with 4 (rarely 5) oblong or linear-obtuse lobes; stamens mostly 4; disk ring-like about the 2-3- loculed ovary or cushion-like; style filiform, the stigma 2-lobed: fr. an oblong or narrow many-seeded berry.— Species above 30, Cent, and S. Amer. The hoffmannias require warm temperature, although they may be plunged in the open in the summer. Well-grown specimens are also adapted to the decoration of window- gardens and living-rooms. Prop, by cuttings. Hoff- mannias are very showy foliage plants.

H. phaenicopoda, K. Schum. Lvs. ovate to oblong, violet-red beneath: fls. inconspicuous. Cent. Amer. L H B
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