Derris
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Derris (Greek, a leather covering). Syn. Deguelia. Leguminosae. Tropical, tall woody climbers (sometimes trees), one of which has been offered in S. Calif., but is now apparently out of cult. there. Lvs. alternate; lfts. opposite, the odd one distant; stipules none: fls. violet, purple or white, never yellow, in racemes or panicles or fascicles, papilionaceous, standard broad and rounded; wings oblique: pod indehiscent; 1- to several-seeded.—About 40 species, of little horticultural significance. D. alborubra, Hemsl., from China, has been flowered at Kew in the palm house "where it covered some square yards of the roof:" fls. white, fragrant, with red calyx, in long panicles: lfts. coriaceous, glabrous, ovate-oblong: a climbing evergreen shrub: once confused with D. Fordii, Oliver. B.M. 8008. L. H. B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963