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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Lobelia—continued. 
flowers, very free; LUSTROUS, rich blue, fine white eye; OMEN, 
pink, small white eye, dwarf, and very distinct; PRINCESS OF 
WALES, pure white, very dwarf and floriferous ; PUMILA GRANDI- 
FLORA FLORE-PLENO, dark blue, a double-flowered form, some- 
times grown, but does not always succeed well; PUMILA INGRAMI, 
white, slightly tinged with blue, of trailing habit; PUMILA MAGNI- 
FICA, deep indigo-blue, small white eye, compact and floriferous 
habit throughout the season; SNOWBALL, white, dwarf compact 
habit, good; SWANLEY BLUE, light blue, rather vigorous habit. 
LOBELIACEÆ. A tribe of Campanulacee. 
LOBOSTEMON (from lobos, a lobe, and stemon, a 
stamen ; in allusion to the stamens being inserted opposite 
the corolla lobes). Syn. Echiopsis. ORD. Boraginee. A 
genus of greenhouse, scabrous-eanescent or hispid, perennial 
herbs, sub-shrubs, or shrubs, confined to South Africa, allied 
to Echium. About fifty species have been enumerated, but 
many of these are not sufficiently distinguished to merit 
specific rank. Flowers white or bluish, in terminal cymes, 
sometimes densely capitate, sometimes in few scorpioid, 
somewhat elongated, loose branches; calyx segments five ; 
corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, with five round, imbricated 
lobes. Nutlets four. Leaves alternate, sessile, granuloso- 
tuberculate or hispid, rarely almost glabrous. For culture, 
see Echium. 
L. argenteus (silvery). fl. in spicate racemes; corolla blue; 
spikes terminal, simple, leafy. June. (. lanceolate, callous- 
acute, we, to in. long. Stem shrubby, branched. A. Skt. 1789. 
(A. B. R. 154, under name of Echium argenteum.) 
£ us (very fierce), fl. in spicate racemes; corolla 
blue; spikes simple, terminal, leafy. June. Z. 14in. to 2in. long, 
sessile, lanceolate. Stem shrubby, with prickly branches. h. 5ft. 
1794. (A. B. R. 39, under name of Echium ferocissimum). 
L. formosus (showy). jl. in sub-cymose, few-flowered racemes; 
corolla pink, tube twice as long as the calyx. June. l. narrow- 
lanceolate, PAPIO Sees above, glabrous beneath; margi 
denticulate. Stem shrubby, with glabrous branches. h. 3ft. 1787. 
(A. B. R. 20 and B. R. 124, under name of Echium grandiflorum.) 
L. fruticosus (shrubby). , in spicate racemes; corolla reddish 
7 P tirst, afterwards becoming blue; spikelets crowded. May. 
L. lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, attenuated at base, silky- 
villous, Stem shrubby, branched. A. 3ft. 1759. (B. M. 1772 and 
R. 3, under name of Echium fruticosum.) i 
L. glauco hyllus (glaucous-leaved). fl., corolla pale violet; 
TTT A a TAEA 
labrous, glaucous ; ns calloso-scabrous. 
R. Aft. 1792. 
margi Stem shrubby, 
ranched, very glabrous, (A. B. R. 165, under 
name of Echium glaucophyllum). : 
L. Swartzii S imeri: 7 Jl, corolla blue; spikelets terminal, bi- 
or trifid, few-flowered. June. l linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
brous, callous-dotted on the margin and (rarely) beneath; 
young ones slightly hispid, ciliated. Stem shrubby, branched 
above, glabrous. A. 2ft. 1816. 
LOCHERIA. Included under Achimenes. 
LOCKHARTIA (named in honour of David Lock- 
hart, a traveller, who introduced L. elegans). Syn. Fer- 
nandexia, ORD. Orchidee. A genus comprising about 
half-a-score species of stove epiphytal orchids, inhabiting 
tropical America, from Brazil to the West Indies and 
Mexico. Flowers small and mediocre, rather long-stalked; 
sepals and petals sub-equal, free, spreading or laterally 
roflexed; lip free at base of column; column very 
short; peduncles in the upper axils, sometimes one or 
two-flowered, sometimes loosely but slenderly paniculate- 
branched. Stems fasciculate, erect, simple. Pseudo-bulbs 
none. The species are more interesting than ornamental. 
They should be grown on blocks, in a hot, damp stove. 
acuta (acute). fl. yellow, red; lip li č + 
Doni bin — 8 with the middle <a e 2 
i June. l acuminate, carinate. *. bin. Trinidad, 1834. 
(B. R. 1806, under name of Fernandezia acuta.) 
„ acute, 
| pagation may be effected by cuttings of 
LOCUST-TREE. The common name for the genus 
Robinia; also used for Ceratonia Siliqua and Hymenea. 
LODDIGESIA (named after Conrad Loddiges, founder 
of a once celebrated nursery at Hackney). ORD. Legumi- 
nose. A monotypic genus, the species being a green- 
house evergreen shrub, closely allied to Hypocalyptus. It 
requires sandy-peat soil, to which should be added a 
small quantity of loam. Propagated by cuttings, made in 
April, and inserted under a bell glass, in sandy soil. 
L. oxalidifolia (Oxalis-leaved). fl. pinkish; keel dark purple at 
the apex ; umbels three to eight-flowered. June. J. trifoliolate ; 
leaflets obcordate, mucronate; stipules subulate. h. lft. to 3ft. 
Cape of Good Hope, 1802. Plant much-branched, smooth. 
(B. NI. 965.) ; a 
LODOICEA (said to be altered from Laodicea, so 
called after Laodice, daughter of Priam). Coco de Mer 
Double Cocoa-nut. ORD. Palmew. A monotypic genus 
the species being a stove palm, very rarely seen it 
cultivation. It thrives best in a compost of rich loam 
and leaf mould, in equal parts. Thorough drainage, 
abundant supply of water, and very strong heat, are 
essential elements to success in the culture of 
plant. The seeds being very large, one of the chi 
difficulties in establishing this plant is its 
manner of germination; the radicle grows down 
form of a stout tap root for 3ft. or more, and, s 
open at the end, allows the plumule to ascend. 
long outgrowth be checked or injured in any y 
cannot be hoped for. The heavy seed re 
or in one pot, and the growing radicle allowed to 
into another, keeping the whole dark until the de 
ment of the young plant, from which the seed 
not be separated until the connection between the 
falls naturally. 8 
L. sechellarum ea) OF 
both having three als an 
covered externally with a thick 
8 
fibrous rous E 
. 
beari 
fruits of 
comprising six or seven species of slig! 
scent or glabrous, rigid, greenhouse under-shrubs or 
rarely small shrubs, natives of Mexico, Central America, 
and New Grenada. Flowers scarlet or violet, axillary, the 
upper ones often crowded at the apices of the branches ; 
calyx five-cut; corolla funnel-shaped. Leaves alternate or 
opposite, undivided, often argutely toothed. The species 
thrive in a compost of fibry peat and sandy loam. P 
shoots, inserted in sand, under a bell g 
L. coccinea (scarlet). H. soli on short peduncles ; 
scarlet. June. J. nearly sessi , ovate, acutely iv 
cuneate at base, scabrous above, hairy beneath. I. 3ft. t 
Mexico, 1824. Shrub, ; eS N 
L. glandulosa (glandular). f. solitary, pedunculate ; 
ioe l ovate lanceolate, petiolate, Bae oie 
ranches nearly linear. Stem su i beset ` 
hairs. A. 2ft. Mexico, 1825. aga ; 
LOGANIA (named after Jame 
in Ireland, afterwards Governor of Pennsylva: 
on botany). Syn. Euosma. ORD. Loganiacee 
comprising twenty-one species of gree: 
or sub-shrubs, rarely much-branched, 
small shrubs. Three are natives of N. 
drained compost of sandy loam 
