Rhynchanthus
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Rhynchanthus (Greek, beak and flower, referring to the peculiar shape of the fls.). Zingiberaceae. Slender glabrous perennial herbs with tuberous roots, suitable for the warmhouse: sts. erect, leafy, the lvs. sessile: fls. sessile, torne in a terminal, few-fld. spike; bracts solitary, elongate, and colored; calyx tubular, cylindrical; corolla funnel-shaped, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, and erect; ovary 3-celled.—About 3 or 4 species, Burma. R. Bluthianus, Wittm. Sts. up to 1 ft. high, not thickened at the roots: lvs. 4, oblong- lanceolate, sessile, acuminate, not marginate: fls. 2, up to 2 in. long; calyx beautiful red, truncate, 3-toothed; corolla red; ovary smooth. Burma. Gt. 48:1464. R. Johnianus, Schlecht. Tuberous: up to 4 1/2 ft. high: lvs. distichous, lanceolate, acuminate, both sides glabrous: infl. many-fld., oblong, with bright red, lanceolate, acuminate bracts; fls. sulfur-yellow; calyx cylindrical, split, the apex 2-cleft; corolla 3-cleft to below the middle, the segms. lanceolate, acuminate; ovary cylindrical. Burma. Gt. 56:1560. R. longi- folius, Hook. f. Sts. 1 1/2 ft. high, thickened at the roots: lvs. 8—12, regularly distichous, 5-7 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, red-margined : -fls. 4—5, up to 3 1/2 in. long; calyx slightly shorter than the bracts; corolla-tube pale yellow-green,lobes green; ovary puber- ulous. Burma. B.M. 6861. F. Tracy Hubbard.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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