Arnebia

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Read about Arnebia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Arnebia (Arabic name). Boraginaceae. Annual or perennial hispid herbs, grown as flower-garden or border subjects.

Erect or diffuse: root sometimes yielding red tint: Lvs. alternate: fls. yellow or violet, in racemes or cymes, the color changing with the age of the blossom; corolla slender-tubed, with 5 obtuse lobes, the throat devoid of scales; stamens included; style usually bifid: fr. normally of 4 erect nutlets. —A dozen species in Asia and N. Afr. of easy cult. in gardens.

A. Griffithii, Boise. Annual, 9-12 in.: Lvs. narrow-oblong, obtuse, ciliate: 11-. long-tubed, with a black spot in each sinus. India.—A. matrothyrsa, Stapf. Perennial, 1 to nearly 2 ft.: fls. yellow in dense thyrses. Armenia.


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