Gmelina
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Gmelina (after one of five distinguished German botanists named Gmelin). Verbenaceae. Trees and shrubs, bearing yellow or brownish irregular flowers sometimes nearly 2 inches across. A very few plants may be cultivated in European warmhouses, and in America only in southern Florida and southern California outdoors. Spiny or not: shoots tomentose: lvs. opposite, entire, toothed or lobed: fls. in panicled cymes or racemes, tomentose at least while young; calyx bell-shaped, shortly 5-toothed or entire; corolla-tube slender below; limb oblique, 5- or 4-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous, nearly exserted: fr. a succulent drupe. — Eight or 10 species from E. Asia and N. Austral. The genus produces a fancy timber similar to teak, which is a product of the same order. Vitex and Clerodendron are better known congeners.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963