Markhamia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Markhamia (after C. R. Markham, who intro. the Cinchonas into India). Bignoniaceae. A genus of 10 African and 2 Asiatic tropical evergreen trees or shrubs with large opposite odd-pinnate lvs. usually with pseudostipules in the axils, glabrous or pubescent: fls. in large terminal or axillary panicles; calyx spathe- like, splitting on one side; corolla tubular-funnelform, usually yellow with red or purple stripes inside; stamens 4, included, with spreading anther-cells; ovary with 4 rows of ovules in each cell: caps, linear, loculicidally dehiscent into 2 leathery valves, the true septum small, with a much larger false septum in its middle parallel to the valves; seeds oblong, winged at the ends.—Only the following species is cult. in S. Calif, and it is. even without fls., a handsome foliage plant. Cult. like Radermachia, to which it is closely related.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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