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Mitraria (from the mitre-shaped pods). Gesneriaceae. One Chilean scandent shrub, prized for its bright scarlet flowers.
Leaves opposite, usually small, few-toothed: fls. stalked, solitary in the axils: calyx relatively small, free, 4-5-parted, with 2-lobed large bracts; corolla-tube much exceeding the calyx, ventricose and contracted near the top, the 5 lobes nearly equal; stamens 4, attached near the bottom of the corolla. M. coccinea, Cav., is the only species: lvs. ovate and acute: fls. about 1 ½ in. long, pendent on peduncles much exceeding the lvs. Chile. B.M. 4462. F.S. 4:385. J.H. III. 48:471. G. 5:464; 36:817.—It is a dense-growing sub- scandent evergreen greenhouse plant (standing out- of-doors in parts of England), of easy cult., blooming in summer and autumn.
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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