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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Leptactina in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Leptactina (Greek, graceful rays, referring to the star-like aspect of the flower). Also written Leptactinia Rubiaceae. Showy shrubs, glabrous or puberulent, leafy: leaves opposite, glossy; stipules broad-ovate and mostly rather large: flowers in dense terminal cymes, like ixoras, white.—The genus contains about 25 species, all Trop. African shrubs, important generic characters being the large calyx-lobes, very long corolla-tube, 5 included stamens, style-branches free or connate, large lax stipules, and clustered infl. L.Mannii, Hook. f. Branching shrub, 6 ft. high: leaves 5 1/2 in. long, 2 1/2 in. wide and larger in proportion, oval, wavy-margined, obtuse, with gobose green bodies between the insertions of the leaves, which are stipules: calyx-tube 3 lines long, lobes 1 in. or more long, leafy; corolla silky within, lobes lanceolate; stamens 5, included; style hairy above, 2-branched. —A very interesting white-fld. shrub for growing under glass, apparently not offered in this country. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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