Schotia
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Schotia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae. It occurs in southern Africa.
Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Schotia (named for Richard Schot, companion of Jacquin during his travels in America, 1754-1759). Leguminosae. Small trees or unarmed shrubs, suitable for greenhouse-growing. Leaves odd-pinnate; lfts. leathery, or small; stipules short: fls. red, showy, clustered in short panicles; bracts and bracteoles ovate or oblong, caducous; calyx-tube disk-bearing, turbinate, short or the base long-attenuate, segms. 4, strongly imbricated; petals 5, slightly unequal, subsessile, imbricated, either ovate or oblong or minute scale-like; stamens 10, free, or shortly connate at the base; ovary stipitate: legume oblong or broad-linear. — About 6 species, Subtrop. and S. Afr. CH
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963