380 THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Monsonia—continued. 
mould added. Propagated by seeds, sown in a slight 
hotbed, in spring; or by cuttings, inserted in sandy soil, 
under a handlight, in spring or autumn. The species 
here described are probably the only ones yet introduced. 
M. lobata (lobed). fl. variegated with purple, red, white, and 
nish on the outside, but pale bluish, with a darker base, 
inside ; peduncles long, one-flowered, furnished with six or eight 
whorled bracts in the middle, Spring. 1. cordate, five to seven. 
lobed; lobes blunt, serrated, pilose beneath. k. lft. Cape of 
Good Hope, 1774. Sub-shrub. (B. M. 385.) 
ty M. speciosa (showy).* fl. rose-coloured, with a purple eye, 
nish outside, ists e. Spring. l, palmately five-parted, with 
he pe finely bipinnatifid. bin. Cape of Good Hope, 
1774. Sub-shrub. (B. M. 73.) 
MONSTERA (derivation unexplained by Adanson, 
who gave the generic name), Syns. Serangium, Tornelia. 
Orv. Aroidew (Aracew). A small genus (about twelve 
PNY 
a 
species have been described) of curious and ornamental 
stove evergreen climbers, all natives of the West Indian 
Islands and tropical America. Spathe deciduous; spadix 
deciduous, female flowers below, hermaphrodite ones 
above; stamens of the upper flowers with flattened fila- 
ments, and two-celled anthers, opening by a short lateral 
slit. Leaves stalked, entire or perforated with holes, 
ultimately divided at the margin; petioles sheathed at 
the base. Monsteras thrive well if planted out on a 
well-drained mound of rich soil, against the damp wall 
of a stove, to which they firmly attach themselves by 
their long aerial roots. It is only in large structures 
that they can be allowed to develop at will; in smaller 
houses, they do well in pots. They are readily propagated 
by cutting up the stems. 
M. anson’s). H. yellow, white; spatia boat- 
cordate, pertuse. West Indies, 
Ta Saleissa (delicious trotted), f ellowish,, 8 
) „ succulen a luscious pine-apple flavour. T- 
forated in a ‘singular manner, — Mexico. d a 
: t for sub-tropical 8 Syns. Philodendron pertusum, 
rnelia fragrans. See Fig. 685. 
1 A synonym of Montanoa (which 
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8 . May. l obliquely ova’ 
1 (B. M. 5085.) 
sposite. This genus comprises about fourteen 
‘shrubs, sometimes arborescent, rarely suffru- 
Montanoa— continued. 
much developed as to resemble a cup-shaped pappus. 
Leaves opposite, entire, dentate, or broadly lobed ; lower 
ones sometimes large, pinnatifid. Montanoas thrive in 
good fibrous loam, and succeed best in the cool conserva- 
tory. Propagated by seeds, sown in gentle bottom heat, 
in spring, and the seedlings gradually hardened off; or 
by cuttings of roots, inserted in autumn, and of the stems 
or shoots, in spring. These latter must be placed in a 
close, heated frame. M. pinnatifida makes a striking 
plant for summer sub-tropical gardening. 
M. bipinnatifida (bipinnatifid).* fl. heads yellow, in the apices 
of the branches, heterogamous; ray-florets ligulate ; disk-florets 
tubular, funnel-shaped; receptacle convex, scaly. L. opposite, 
petiolate, bipinnatifid ; lower ones pinnatifid, rigid, pilose ; seg- 
ments serrate. A. 6ft. to 8ft. Mexico. Syns. M. heracleifolia, 
Polymnia grandis, P. heracleifolia. See Fig. 586. (R. H. 1863, 370.) 
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Fic. 586, MONTANOA BIPINNATIFIDA, 
