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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
MITRACARPUM (from mitra, a mitre, and karpos, 
a fruit; in allusion to the fruit being cut round about 
in the middle). ORD. Rubiaceew. A genus comprising 
about thirty species of erect or prostrate herbs, very 
often with a perennial root, for the most part in- 
habiting tropical America, with a few from tropical and 
Southern Africa. Flowers white, minute, in dense- 
flowered heads; calyx tube turbinate, obovoid, or sub- 
globose ; limb four or five-toothed; corolla salver-shaped 
or funnel-formed; tube often with a band of hairs 
Mitraria—continued. 
close, rather fibry peat, with plenty of sand. Perfect 
drainage is very essential. If grown in pots, it requires 
a cool shady situation; an arid atmosphere is fatal 
to success. Propagated freely by divisions of the root 
in spring; or by cuttings, taken any time during 
spring or summer, and inserted in a light soil, under 
a bell glass. 
M. coccinea (scarlet).* fl. bright scarlet, about 14in. long, soli- 
tary in the axils, on pendent slender pedicels ; calyx free; corolla 
con _ Fig. 581. FLOWERING BRANCH AND DETACHED SINGLE FLOWER oF MITRIOSTIGMA AXILLARE. 
within, throat naked 
or villous. Leaves opposite, 
or ovate. M. stylosum, the species 
ivation, is a stove annual. None of the 
horticultural merit. 
(from mitra, a mitre; in reference to 
e shape of the seed-pod). Syn. Diplocalys. ORD. 
Gesneraceæ. A monotypic genus. ‘The species is a 
very ornamental, hardy or half-hardy, diffuse or climbing, 
pubescent or glabrous, evergreen shrub, of compara- 
tively easy culture, and thriving best in moderately 
tube elongated, inflated. May to July. J. ovate, acute, small, 
serrated, sub-coriaceous. Stems scandent. Chiloe, 1848. (B. M. 
4462; F. d. S. 385.) 
MITRIFORM. Formed like a mitre. 7 
_ MITRIOSTIGMA (from mitra, a mitre, and stigma ; 
in reference to the shape of the pistil). A small genus (two 
species) of very glabrous, unarmed stove shrubs, closely 
related to Gardenia, with which they are usually classed. 
One comes from the Cape of Good Hope, and the other 
is a native of Fernando Po. Flowers disposed in short, 
