Tibouchina gracilis (Bonpl.) Cogn.

Tiboucliina gracilis (Bonpl.), Cogn., 1. c., 386.
Luque(293); near Caballero (598). December-January.
A very showy-flowered plant, 3-6 dm. high, growing in open
grounds. Corolla bright purple-red, the petals 2 cm. in lengthj
Flowers in long terminal' racemes. All the species are bristly
hairy, the hairs rising from papillae on the stem. In this species
the hairs are prickly, white, spreading upwards or appressed, in no.
664 they are fuscous below and curve downwards.
PLANTS OK SOUTH AMERICA,
Collected by Thos. Morong, 1888-1890. *
Central Paraguay,
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