Tinnea
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Tinnea (named in honor of Mlle. Tinne). Labiatae. Tall perennial herbs or subshrubs, pubescent or woolly, adapted to the warmhouse. Lvs. very entire: floral whorls usually laxly 2-fld., axillary or in a terminal raceme: fls. fuscous- or violet-purple, fragrant; calyx ovoid, 2-lipped; corolla-limb somewhat 2-lipped; stamens 4, didynamous; ovary shortly 4-lobed: nutlets obovoid-clavate. — About 23 species, Afr. T. Sacleuxii, Sprenger. Dwarf shrub with the branches shortly and densely pubescent: lvs. short-petioled, oblong or ovate, entire, 3/4-l in. long: cymes axillary, 2-5-fld.: calyx membranous, deeply 2-lipped; corolla nearly 1 in. long, lower lip much longer than upper. Trop. Afr. (?). CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963