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Siphocampylus (Greek, siphon, tube, and kampylos, curved, referring to corolla); sometimes misspelled Syphocampylus. Campanulaceae. Herbs, sub-shrubs, or shrubs, sometimes climbing, glabrous, hirsute or stellate-tomentose, adapted to the warm- or coolhouse: lvs. alternate, rarely verticillate, entire or denticulate, rarely incise-dentate or pinnately lobed or divided: peduncles 1-fld., axillary or corymbosely grouped at the ends of the branches or laxly racemose: fls. often rather large, red, orange, or purplish, rarely green; calyx 5-lobed; corolla straight or incurved: caps. loculicidally 2-valved.—About 100 species, Trop. Amer.
Siphocampylus (Greek, siphon, tube, and kampylos, curved, referring to corolla); sometimes misspelled Syphocampylus. Campanulaceae. Herbs, sub-shrubs, or shrubs, sometimes climbing, glabrous, hirsute or stellate-tomentose, adapted to the warm- or coolhouse: lvs. alternate, rarely verticillate, entire or denticulate, rarely incise-dentate or pinnately lobed or divided: peduncles 1-fld., axillary or corymbosely grouped at the ends of the branches or laxly racemose: fls. often rather large, red, orange, or purplish, rarely green; calyx 5-lobed; corolla straight or incurved: caps. loculicidally 2-valved.—About 100 species, Trop. Amer.
S. bicolor, Don-Lobelia laxiflora, HBK.—S. giganteus, Don (Tupa salicifolia, Don) grows 14 ft. high: lvs. lanceolate, 6-9 in. long, scarcely petioled: fls. reddish yellow; corolla falcate, velvety. Ecuador.—S. Lindleyi, Lem., has ovate-oblong, glandulose-serrate lvs. and approximate red fls. Colombia. J.F. 2:142.—S. Orbignianus, A. DC., is herbaceous; has ternate, ovate-acuminate, short-petioled lvs. and numerous red-and-yellow fls. in the upper axils. Bolivia. J.F. 4:425.—S. rugosus, A. DC., has pendulous branches, ovate-rotund coriaceous and rugose lvs., the corolla with lanceolate, acute lobes and the caps. 10-angled. Peru. H.U. 3, p. 368.
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