Roupala
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Roupala (probably a native name in Guiana). Also spelled Ropola, Rupala, Rhopala. Proteaceae. Trees, smooth or ferrugineous-tomentose, suitable only for the warmhouse. Leaves alternate, leathery, stiff, entire or dentate, undivided, or those of the sterile branches (and younger trees?) pinnate: fls. in axillary or terminal racemes, pedicelled in pairs, perfect; perianth cylindrical, slightly dilated at base, the limb scarcely broader, sub- globose, oblong or elongated, finally laxly revolute; ovary sessile: caps, hard, oblique, 2-valved, short- stipitate.—About 40 species, Trop. Amer.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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