SI THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Livistona—continued. LLAVEA (named in honour of M. la Llave, the 
8 ies, proving quite hardy in Cornwall, and nearly so in many discoverer of the species). Orp. Filices. A monotypic 
less Southern districts. SyNS. L. mauritiana and Latania bor- genus, the species being a stove fern. It requires a 
‘bonica. See Fig. 458. compost of peat and sand, and plenty 
of drainage. See also Ferns. 
L. cordifolia (cordate-leaved). sti. 1ft. long, 
strong, erect, fibrillose towards the base. 
fronds lft. to 2ft. long, 6in. to 12in. broad, 
tripinnate ; the lower sterile, with stalked 
ovate segments, 14in. to 2in. long, żin. to zin. 
broad ; the fertile segments of the upper 
part pod-like, l4in. to in. long. sori linear, 
occupying the whole length of the changed 
pod-like segments of the upper part of the 
frond; involucre the same shape, rolled 
over, and quite concealing the sori. Mexico, 
1853. Syn. Ceratodactylis os dioides. 
LLOYDIA (named after Mr. Ed- 
ward Lloyd, who first discovered the 
plant in North Wales). Syns. Nectarobo- 
thrium, Rhabdocrinum. ORD. Liliacee. 
A small genus (two species) of bulbous 
plants, one of which inhabits the moun- 
tains of Europe (Britain), Central and 
Northern Asia, and North America, and 
the other is limited to the Himalayas. 
FIG. 458. LIVISTONA CHINENSIS. Flowers white or yellow, pedicellate. 
4 ö pe : Radical leaves one to three; cauline 
Hoogendorpit (Hoogendorp’s). 1. rich dark green, forming a | ones few, small. Stem low, slender, bearing one or two 
black eee ore oniy Sees» petioles stout, flowers at the apex. Bulb narrow. L. serotina—pro- 
and | 
lei 
ish-brown, inclosed i etw f reddish-} fibres 5 é E: 3 
armed at the edges with, ; ie stout, 22 * —— bably the only species known to cultivation -—is a rare 
1874. See Fig. 459. 
Archipelago, and pretty, bulbous-rooted, hardy perennial, requiring a 
dry, sandy loam. Propagated by offsets, or by the 
creeping shoots with a bulb at the extremity. 
L. serotina (late-flowering). . white, erect, solitary, veined 
externally with green; perianth inferior, of six nearly equal, 
spreading, persistent segments. June. l. eee 
on the stem dilated at the base. Stem Sin. to Gin. high. Rocky 
ledges of Snowdon range, Wales; mountains and Arctic re- 
gions of Northern hemisphere. Syn. Anthericum serotinum. 
(Sy. En. B. 1521.) 8 ; 
“LOASA (the native name in South America). In- 
cluding Illairea. ORD. Loasew. Some of the plants 
formerly included here are now referred to Blumenbachia. 
A genus comprising about fifty species of hardy or 
greenhouse, annual or biennial, decumbent or twining 
herbs, beset with stinging hairs, natives of tropical 
America (except North Brazil and Guiana). Flowers 
yellow, brick-red, or whitish, often showy, axillary, 
solitary, racemose, or sub-paniculate; petals five, cucul- 
late, equal, spreading, inserted in the top of the tube; 
l 
Fig. 459. Livistona HOOGENDORPIL 
I. humilis (humble).* I. dark green, large, orbicular-cordate, 
ig, deeply divided into narrow plicate segments, tapering 
toa fine point ; petioles clothed at their edges with close-set spines. 
h. 6ft. to 30ft. Tropical Australia, 1824. A handsome species for 
decorative purposes, when young. 
L. inermis (unarmed). A little-known plant, differi from 
L. humilis principally in having the petioles ontirely withous 
prickles. North Australia. 
L. Jenkinsiana (Jenkins’).* J. rich dark green, fan-shaped, 2ft. to 
Aft. across, plaited ; margin divided into somewhat 1 seg- 
ments; p les from 2ft. to loft. in length, somewhat keeled 
below, flat above, armed at the edges with very stout, sharp 
es, which are slightly recurved. A, 10ft. Assam and Sikkim, 
45. A beautiful greenhouse plant. : 
; = mauritiana (Mauritian). A synonym of L. chinensis. 
8 olivæformis (Olive-formed). Z. dark green, rather reniform 
‘than fabelisto; 2ft- to 3ft. from top of petiole to the, margin, 
vided into pendulous segments for about one-third of the length; 
petioles 2ft. to 4ft. long, stout, brown at the base, inclosed in a 
-tissue of dark brown 12 7 
lan spinka. om netted fibres, armed with a few small red 
L. rotundifolia (round-leaved). Z. dark green, with a sub- 
. — blade „ in diameter, palmato-multifid, the 
segments ith bifid tips; petioles 6ft. to 7ft. long, 
with Spiny teeth. Stem 40ft. to 50ft. high. 
| a young state, for stove 
Fic. 460. LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA, 
