AN ENCYCLOPADIA OF HORTICULTURE. 
NORANTEA (altered from Gonora-antegri, the Carib- 
bean name of N. guianensis). Syns. Ascium, Schwartzia. 
ORD. Ternstrimiacee. A genus consisting of about eight 
species of handsome stove epiphytal or climbing shrubs, 
rarely arborescent, confined to tropical America. Flowers 
disposed in terminal, elongated, many-flowered racemes; 
petals and sepals five, imbricated; pedicels jointed at 
the base, furnished with petiolate, cucullate, or saccate 
bracts. Leaves coriaceous, entire. The species (of which 
the two here described are probably the only ones yet 
introduced) thrive in a compost of loam and peat. Propa- 
gated by ripened cuttings, which root freely in sand, 
under a glass, in heat. 
N. braziliensis (Brazilian) fl. green in the middle, but white 
on the margins, racemose, on ane DEE bracts scarlet. 
l. obovate, stalked. R. 6ft. Brazil, Climber. 
. guianensis (Guiana). fl. violet, nearly sessile, on lo: ikes; 
pts — large, eee scarlet. i. oblong, mere 
nate, coriaceous. Branches red, throwing out roots, by which 
it supports itself on trees near which it grows. Guiana, 1818. 
A beautiful species. (A. G. 220.) 
NORFOLK ISLAND PINE. See Araucaria 
excelsa. : 
NORNA. A synonym of Calypso. 
NORWAY MAPLE. See Acer platanoides. 
NORWAY SPRUCE. See Picea excelsa. 
L (from notos, south, and Elaia, the Olive ; 
in allusion to the form and native place x the species). 
Syn. Rhysospermum. ORD. Oleaceæ. genus com- 
pris: 2 species of Australian, greenhouse evergreen 
s or trees, with the habit of Olive, only three of 
which, probably, have yet been introduced. Flowers in 
short, fasciculate, axillary racemes; petals four, broad, 
~ obtuse, free, or connected by pairs to the filaments at 
the base. Drupe globose, ovoid or oblong. Leaves oppo- 
site, entire. The species thrive in a compost of peat 
and loam, with a little sand and charcoal added. Pro- 
pagated, in April, by cuttings of firm side shoots, inserted 
in sand, under a bell glass, without heat. 
downy beneath, dotless, 
SYN. Olea apetala (A. B, R. 516). 
N. ovata (ovate). f. similar to 
June. 
Zin. tapering into a rather long petiole, reticulate above, 
densely 
; beneath. 1826. Shrub. 
‘NOTHOCHLZENA (from nothos, 3 = 
chlaina, a cloak; some of the species appear ave 
involucres). “Frequently, but incorrectly, spelt Notho- 
‘elena, or Notholena. Including Cincinalis. ORD. 
Filices. A genus comprising about thirty-four species 
of wi ornamental stove * = 
- differing from Cheilanthes only by the absence of a 
distinct involucre, and connected with it by gradual 
intermediate changes. The species should be grown 
slightly elevated above the rim of the pot, and in a 
‘compost of fibrous peat, silver sand, and small pieces of 
sandston drainage is most essential; and the 
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fronds should not be wetted. For general culture, see 
"erns. Except where otherwise stated, all the species 
here described require greenhouse treatment. 
N. candida (white). A synonym of N. sulphurea. 
l. chrysophylla (golden-fronded). A garden synonym of 
7. flavens. 
cl *s),* rhiz. woody, densely scaly. sti. zin. 
to 6in. long, e fronds bin. to 12in. long, 2in. to 
Nothochlena—continued. 
Sin. broad, bi- tripinnatifid ; upper pinn close, the lower ones 
sub-distant, deltoid ; pinnules close, lanceolate, pinnatifid or 
pinnate, with short, oblong segments ; lower surface and rachis 
ensely scaly. Cape Colony, &c., 1838. A handsome but very 
rare species. 
N. fi (rusty). rhiz. thick, bearing bulb-like scaly buds. 
sti. sub-tufted, 2in. to 4in. long, wiry, erect, slightly matted. 
fronds bin. to lin. long, zin. to lin. broad, simply innate ; 
seer sessile, jin. to šin. long, ovate, deeply pinnatitid, with 
lunt lobes; upper surface pale green, villous; lower densely 
tomentose; edge inflexed. sori black. West Indies, Mexico, 
N. flavens (yellow).* sti. densely tufted, Ain. to gin. long, naked. 
Fronds din. to din. Jong; 2in. to 4in. broad, oblong-deltoid, tri- 
pinnate; pinne distant, the lower ones deltoid; the pinnules 
stalked, with oblong segments, lin. to Iain. broad; lower surface 
densely coated with bright yellow powder. sori brown, extending 
from the edge nearly to the midrib, Central America. An 
elegant stove species, known in gardens sometimes as N, chryso- 
phylla, SYNS. Cincinalis flavens and Gymnogramme flavens. 
Fic. 697. FROND oF NOTHOCHLANA NIVEA HOOKERI, 
hypoleuca (white beneath).* rhiz. bulbiferous, with dark 
„ scales. Cr tufted, slender, 2in. to 4in. long. fronds din. 
to 6in. long, abont lin. broad, bipinnatifid; pinne gin, to zin. 
long, jin. to gin. broad, ovate, cut down nearly or quite to the 
rachis below into blunt lobes, naked and pale green above, 
densely tomentose beneath ; edge slightly inflexed. Chili. 
: woolly).* sti. densely tufted, woolly, wiry, very 
Fronds An. “A din. long, lin. to ljin. broad, oblong- 
lanceolate, bipinnate; pinnæ close, lanceolate, the central ones 
the largest, with close, roundish or oblong, entire or three-lobed 
pinnules; rachis more or less woolly. South Europe, Australia, 
1778. A very handsome species, distinguished from the rest by 
its dense white woolly tomentum. 
