Koellikeria

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Read about Koellikeria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Koellikeria (Professor Koelliker, German botanist). Gesneriaceae. One species, a small herbaceous warmhouse plant, K. argyrostigma, Regel, Cent. Amer. to Peru, offered abroad: in the way of achimenes, but fls. smaller in leafless racemes, the corolla-limb distinctly 2-lipped: rhizomatous or the root, creeping: lvs. opposite, soft-pubescent, elliptical and nearly or quite obtuse, velvety green and marked with white dots: fls. white or cream-color, red-spotted, in racemes standing 12 in. high; calyx-tube obovoid, the lobes 5 and narrow; corolla-tube short, broad and decurved; upper lip 2-parted and nearly erect; lower lip larger, 3-parted, spreading; stamens attached in base of corolla, somewhat exserted; style filiform, the stigma becoming 2-lobed: caps. 2-valved. B.M. 4175 (as Achimenes argyrostigma).—Requires treatment probably of achimenes; prop, by division. L.H.B.


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