Lindenbergia
Read about Lindenbergia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Lindenbergia (J. B. W. Lindenberg wrote on the liverworts, 1829). Scrophulariaceae. About 16 annual or perennial herbs of tropical or warm parts of Asia and Afr., differing from Mimulus in having a campanulate rather than tubular calyx and the anther- cells separate: corolla 2-lipped, the tube cylindrical; upper lip short and broad, emarginate or lobed; lower lip larger, 3-lobed and spreading; stamens 4, didynamous included: caps, oblong or ovoid, dehiscent: plant decumbent or ascending, sometimes woody at base, with opposite dentate lvs. (or the upper ones alternate): fls. nearly sessile, solitary or in terminal racemes or spikes, the bracts leafy. L. grandiflora, Benth., has recently been mentioned in horticultural literature abroad. It is a good greenhouse plant in England, with yellow fls.: soft-hairy, somewhat scandent: lvs. ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate: fls. 1 in. long, in terminal leafy spikes. Himalaya, to 6,000 ft. altitude. B.M. 7738. G.C. 111.32:213; 53:27. G.M. 45:616; 56:41. G. 24:671.—Mentioned sometimes as annual, but it is perennial in cult. It is a valuable winter-blooming plant, keeping in good condition 3 months, and may be grown in compact bushy form by being cut back.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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