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"text": "Cololla (1 1/2 inch long) campanulate, ventricose below, compressed laterally, glanduloso-pubescent externally, and there of brilliant red colour, excepting in a broad yellow stripe along the lower side, on the inside yellow, glabrous, and sprinkled with red spots, which are largest on the lower part of the tube, smaller and more crowded on the limb, of which the lobes are subpatent, blunt, unequal, the two lateral ones being rather the largest, and the two upper the smallest and least yellow.",
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