Camoensia


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Read about Camoensia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Camoensia (Louis Camoens, Portugese poet). Leguminosae. Two species of climbing shrubs from W. Trop. Afr., with digitately 3-foliolate lvs., and large papilionaceous fls. Calyx top-shaped; petals with long claws, the standard orbicular or nearly so; stamens free; ovary stipitate, with many ovules, the stigma small and capitate: fr. a broad-linear flattened 2-valved pod. C. maxima, Welw., has recently been offered by an English firm. Described by Baker as "a magnificent species" and by Bull as "one of the most gorgeously beautiful of tropical climbers:" lfts. obovate-oblong, 5-6 in. long, cuspidate: fls. milk-white tinged with gold and frilled on the edges of the petals, in short- stalked 6-8-fld. axillary racemes; standard projecting 4 in. beyond the calyx, 3-4 in. broad; other petals shorter and not more than 1 in. broad: pod 6-8 in. long. Trans. Linn. Soc. 25:36. B.M. 7572. G.C. III. 20:597. L. H. B. CH


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