Mandevilla

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 Mandevilla subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Mandevilla (Henry John Mandeville, British minister at Buenos Ayres). Apocynaceae. Tall climbers from the warmer parts of America, with large funnel- shaped, 5-lobed flowers which are yellow, white or rarely tinged violet.

Woody plants: lvs. opposite, penniveined: racemes simple, often 1-sided, loose, dense or reduced to 2 or 3 fls.; calyx 5-parted, with several glands inside at the base or 5 scales; corolla-tube cylindrical, funnel-shaped, or ovoid; lobes 5, broad, twisted; stamens fixed at the apex of the tube, included; disk of 5 lobes or scales; ovary of 2 distinct carpels; stigma thick: follicles erect or divergent, incurved and more or less cohering at apex, terete or angled.—Species 50 or more, Mex. to Argentina, but some of them probably to be referred to Echites or elsewhere. The species are little known as cult, subjects. The plants resemble Dipladenia, which see for cult.


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