Even after the mild breath of spring has begun to kindle a light of blossoms on our boughs, in the gradual progression of our seasons, yet a long time must elapse ere summer’s warmer smile shall have ripened the flowers into fruit: while awaiting her slow coming, we are glad to avail ourselves occasionally of any fructal variety afforded by the produce of other lands, and thus the dessert can hardly fail sometimes to include a treasure from the East, which introduces us to a class of vegetation altogether different from our own.
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It is characterized by its erect, shrubby habit, silvery pubescence, large flowers, narrow leaflets, and manner of fructal dehiscence.
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A few potted individuals, on being transferred to the greenhouse, came into flower in December and January, but (after artificial pollination) differed insignificantly in floral, fructal, and seminal details from the characters listed by Brenan for C. obtusifolia.
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Since fructal characters are required for certain determination, exsiccatae lacking fruit but otherwise agreeing with this taxon will be indicated with an asterisk (*).
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