Melianthus major
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Melianthus major, Linn. St. flexuous, glabrous, sometimes 10 ft. or more in height, with a -widely creeping root: lvs. gray, a foot or more long, the upper ones smaller; stipules grown together into one large intra-axillary piece, attached to the lower part of the petiole; lfts. 9-11, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. wide: racemes densely fld., 1 ft. or more in length; bracts ovate, acuminate: fls. red-brown, 1 in. long: caps, papery, 4-lobed at the apex, 1-1 ¼ in. long; seeds 2 in each cell, black and shining. Cape. G.C. III. 36:142. B.R.45. R.H. 1867, p. 131; 1913, p. 413. G.W. 4. p. 37.—An excellent foliage plant. M. intermedius, Hort., is a hybrid between this species and M. comosus.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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