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The Dictionary of Gardening 



Vol. II., the following 



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To the species described on p. 401, 

 should now be added : 



M. erythrophylla (red-leaved). /. three or four, sulphur- 

 yellow, funnel-shaped, borne on short pedicels; bracts dazzling 

 scarlet, roundish-ovate, 3Mn. long. 3iii. broad. L opposite, 

 roundish-ovate, bright green. Congo, 1888. A shrub, wholly 

 covered with silky pubescence. 



MUTISIA. To the species described on p. 401, 

 Yol. II., the following should now be added: 



M. tireviflora (short-flowered), fl.-heads lin, in diameter ; ray 

 florets orange-red, ^in. long, nearly Jin. broad, obtuse ; disk 

 yellow. /. pale gi'een, ovate-oblonff, retuse or emarginate, 

 cordate at base, 2Jin. long, IJin. broad, the margins armed with 

 somewhat distant, spiny teeth, the midrib produced into a 

 tendril. Chilian Andes, 1885. Greenhouse, scrambling shrub. 

 (K. G. 1163, f. 1.) 



H. versicolor (various -coloured). fl.-headSf ray florets orange, 

 banded with dark brown, IJin. long, ^in. broad, linear, spreading ; 

 disk yellow ; involucre cylindrical. I. linear-subulate, armed, 

 revolute-margined, rigid, produced in a short, reddish tendril. 

 Stem terete, striated, flexuous, wingless. Chilian Andes, 1884. 

 (II. a. 1163, f. 2.) 



BI, vici£efolia (Vetch-leaved), fl^-heads orange, showy ; involucre 

 long, cylindrical, I. pinnate, ending in a tendril ; leaflets nu- 

 merous, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Peru, 1887. A handsome, 

 greenhouse climber. 



MYOSOTIS. To the species described on p. 403, 

 VoL II., the following varieties should now be added: 



BI. alpcstrid elegantiasima (most elegant). A nretty, dwarf, 



free-flowering variety, having white, rose, and blue flowers, 1883, 

 (R. H. 1882, p. 20.) 



BI. dissitiflora alba (white), fi. pure white, without the 

 slightest taint of colour. 1883. 



BI» d« l^andiflora (large-flowered). /. double the size of those 

 of the type, and produced in great profusion in February. 1886, 

 Garden variety. 



M. d. perfecta (perfect). A very large and finely formed variety. 

 1883. 



BI. sylvatica grandiflora (large-flowered). A variety having 



flowers nearly ^in. across. 1885. (R. G. 1885, p. 121.) 



mYRIOCARFA (from myrios^ myriad, and Icarpos, 

 fruit; alluding to the numerous fruits). Obd. Urticacem. 

 A genus embracing six species of stove shrubs or small 

 trees, inhabiting tropical America, from Brazil to Mexico. 

 Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecioua, scattered at the sides 

 of the filiform branches of the rachis, the males often 

 sessile and densely clustered, the females looser, sessile 

 or pedicellate, often very numerous ; spikes or racemes 

 solitary or somewhat fascicled at the axils or nodes, 

 often branched. Leaves alternate, usually ample, petio- 

 late, toothed, penniveined and about three-nerved. Two 

 species are known in gardens. Where room can be spared, 

 they will make a bold and effective appearance. They 

 thrive in good, well-drained loam, and may be propagated 

 by cuttings of the young wood. 



BI. oolipensis (Colipa), Jl., female inflorescence consisting 

 of pendulous, forked spikes, lift, to 2ft. long, densely covered 

 with small, flask-shaped ovaries. L IJft. to lift, long, llin. 

 broad, elliptic, acute, roundetl at base, crenate on the margins, 

 clothed with rigid hairs, adpressedly pubescent beneath ; petioles 

 lOin, to 12in. long. Mexico, 1887. A shrub or small tree. 



M. sUpitata (stalked). JL, females more or less clustered ; males 

 sub-sessile, gloraerulate ; primary branches of the inflorescence 

 short, the ultimate ones sometimes shorter than the leaves. 

 I. ovate- or obovate-elliptic, or rarely elliptic- lanceolate, 4in. to 

 7in, long, shortly acuminate at apex, rounded or obtuse, very 

 rarely sub-cordate at base, unequally serrate- denticulate or 

 crenulate, ^lexico, Venezuela, Ac. A shrub or small tree. 



MYRMECODIA (from murmex, murmehos^ an ant; 

 in allusion to those insects making their habitation in 

 the rhizomes). Obd. Ruhiacecs, A genns of about a score 

 species of stove, epiphytal, highly glabrous, "ant-nest- 

 ing" shrubs, with a smooth or prickly, tuberous rhizome, 

 extending froto Sumatra and Singapore to New Guinea, 

 North Australia, and Solomon's Archipelago. Flowers 

 white, small, sessile, solitary or few ; calyx tube ovoid, the 

 limb veiy short, entire ; corolla having a cylindrical or 

 snb-urceolate tube, and a four-lobed limb ; stamens four. 

 Leaves stalked, clustered at the tips of the branchlets, 



Myrmecodia — continued. 



opposite, narrowed to rather long petioles, coriaceous ; 

 stipules persistent, ample, bifid; branches short, quad- 

 rangular, thick and fleshy. M. Beccarii is in cultivation 

 in this country. It requires great heat, and should be 

 treated like an epiphytal Orchid. Seedling plants may 

 be raised from its fruits. 



BI. Beccarii (Beccari's). fl.y corolla tube cylindrical, the lobes 

 ovate, thick, longer than the tube. February, ft, cylindric- 

 oblong, rounded at apex, four-stoned. I. oblanceolate or oblong- 

 oblanceolate, sub-acute, fleshy. Tuber not ribbed, lobed, spinu- 

 lose ; spines short, simple ; branches thicfcened-nodose. Tropical 



' Austraha, 1884. (B. M. 6883.) 



S/CTSTAGIDIXJIVI (from musiaaj, mustakos, a mous- 

 tache, and eidos, resemblance ; in allusion to the pointed • 

 prolongation of the lip). Syn. Aeranthus (of Eeichen- 

 bach, jun.). Oed. OrchidecB. A genus comprising about 



a score species of stove, epiphytal, not pseudo-bulbous 

 Orchids, natives of tropical and South Africa. Flowers 

 usually small, racemose ; sepals and petals nearly equal, 

 free, spreading ; lip affixed to the base of the column, 

 produced in a long, slender spur, the lateral lobes some- 

 times ovate, erect, sometimes nearly obsolete, the middle 

 one erect or spreading, often ovate, undivided; pollen 

 masses two ; racemes axillary, often short. Leaves di- 

 stichous, usually few, coriaceous, spreading. Stems 

 leafy, rigid. Only one species is known in gardens. 

 It thrives either on blocks or in baskets, in a cool house, 

 and will succeed under conditions similar to those which 

 suit Angrcecum falcatum. 



BI. filicorne (thread-horned). /. white, lin. in diameter, numerous ; 

 sepals, petals, and lip lanceolate, acute ; spur slender, 2in. long 

 or more. L narrow-oblong, 2in. to 5in. long, about Jin. broad, 

 obtusely two-lobed at apex. Natal, 1887. A pretty, free- 

 flowering, Angrsecum-like Orchid, of tufted habit, (G. C. ser. iii.. 

 vol. ii., p. 135.) 



NJEGELIA. To the species described on p, 408, 

 Vol. IL, the following hybrid should now be added : 



N. achimenoides (Achimenes-like). Jl. 2in. long, IJin. broad, 

 the tube yellowish-rose outside, yellow dotted rose within, the 

 lobes light rose. 1885. A pretty hybrid between JV. zebrina and 

 Achimenes gloxinicejlora, with the habit of the former, but the 

 flowers hang from the axils of the leaves as in Achimenes. 



NAFOLEONA. To the species described on p. 409, 

 Vol. 11.5 the following should now be added; 



N# caspidata (cuspidate). This differs from the better-known 



JV. imperialis in its larger flowers, which are cream-coloured with 

 a crimson centre, regularly five-angled, with straight sides (not 

 five-lobed as in H, imperialis) ; the leaves are much larger, being 

 Sin. to lOin. long and 4in. to 5in. broad. 1886. (G. C. n. s., xxv., 

 p. 657, f. 147 b.) 



NARCISSUS. To the species and varieties de- 

 scribed on pp. 411-20, Vol. II., the following should 



now be added : 



N. cyclamineus (Cyclamen-like), /..perianth lemon-yellow, the 

 tube very short, the segments nearly lin. long, strongly reflexed 

 from the base ; corona as long as, or longer than, the segments, 

 rather deeper in colour, the edge crenate ; scape sub-terete, 6in. 

 to 12in. long. Spring. Z. two or three, linear, sub-erect, deeply 

 channelled. Bulb iin. in diameter, Portugal. (B. M. 6950.) 



N. Johnstoni (Johnston's). A variety of N, Pseudo-Narcissus. 



N. JonquUIa Burbidgei (Burbidge's). A variety having the 

 corona cut into six segments nearly to the base. Native country 

 unknown. 1885. 



N-juncifoUo-maticus (hybrid). /, three, on a slender, terete 

 peduncle, the two upper ones ascending, the lower one horizontal ; 

 perianth tube greenish-yellow, |in. long, the expanded limb 

 bright lemon-yeUow, horizontal, l^in. in diameter, the segments 

 oyate-oblong, much imbricated ; corona orange- yellow, obconical, 



^inl^*^'^' ^^.^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^P"l- ^- narrow-linear, channelled. 

 1886. ^ Probably a hybrid between JV. mncifolius and N. Pseudo- 

 Narcissus muticus, 



N. poeticus bifloras (two-fl^owered). ft, double, two on each 

 scapo. 188t). A tine variety. (R. G. 1193.) 



N. Pseudo-Narcissus Johnstoni (Johnston*s). A pale 

 sulphur, remarkable for the long and rather slender corona tube, 

 which 13 about Jin. long, and less spreading at the mouth than 

 in the common Daflfodil. Portugal, 1887. 



N« .P.-N, muticus (curtailed). Jl. lin. to liin. long ; tube obconical, 

 |in. long and broad ; segments sulphur-yellow, lin. to lAin. long; 



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