Janusia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Janusia (after Janus, the old Roman god with 2 faces). Malpighiaceae. Twining or trailing plants, with 2 forms of yellow fls. in axillary clusters, the normal fls. having a gland-bearing calyx, a 3-angled style and 3 ovaries, and conspicuous clawed petals; abnormal fls. with an eglandular calyx, no style and 2 ovaries, and often rudimentary petals.—Ten to 15 species. J. gracilis, Gray, is offered in S. Calif. Sts. and branches very slender, twining or trailing: lvs. lanceolate-linear, both surfaces silky: peduncles mostly dichotomously 2-fld.; bracts linear, as long as the pedicels. Common throughout Texas, south of the Colorado, and west to New Mex. L. H. B.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963