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NOTHOLZAENA. See Nothochlena. 
NOTHOLIRION. Included under Lilium (which 
see.) 
NOTHOSCORDUM (from nothos, spurious, and 
Scordon, Garlic; in reference to the near relationship 
which exists between this genus and Allium). In- 
eluding Caloscordum. Syns. Hesperocles, Oligosma, 
7 Pseudoscordum. ORD. Liliacew. A genus comprising 
4 some half. a-score species of greenhouse or hardy bulbous 
plants, of which one is Chinese, and the rest are found 
in extra-tropical America and in the Andes region. 
Flowers in terminal, many-flowered umbels, with the 
pedicels not articulated; perianth marcescent, persistent ; 
segments six, connate at base or in the middle, in many 
cases spreading or campanulate-connivent. Leaves radical, 
linear, flat. Bulbs tunicated. For culture, see Allium 
(in which, and in Milla, the species of this genus are, 
_. by some authorities, distributed). 
N. aureum (golden). A synonym of Bloomeria aurea. 
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Fic. 700. NoTHOSCORDUM FRAGRANS, showing Habit and 
detached Single Flower. 
. fragrans (fragrant).* fl. white, with a bar of very pale lilac on 
ne outer s of ree 2 afvision. fragrant, in umbels of from six 
to twenty. Summer. l. linear-lanceolate. A. 1}ft. to 2ft. North 
plast w 1822. A vigorous and handsome hardy species. SYN, 
: Allium fragrans. See Fig. 700. R. 898.) i f 
k inodorum (inodorous whitish, with brownish-purple 
4 8 * scentless; — 4 eee A X and 
PS Smsy ay. l all radical, narrow-lorate. Stem lft. high. lina, 
i 1770. Hardy. (B. M. 1129, under name of Allium inodorum.) 
. large-stamened). fl. six to twenty to an um- 
eh ; perianth yt or whitish, zin. to zin. ponte, the base a 
n cup; pedicels erect; anthers yellow ; scape lłft. to 2ft. 
ong. Summer. l. developed with the flower, numerous, sub- 
erect, fleshy, narrow-linear, Sin. to 12in. long. Buenos Ayres, 
1875. Half-hardy. Syn. Milla macrostemon. 
N. nerinifiorum (Jerine-flowered). This is the correct name of 
the plant described in this work as Caloscordum nerinejlorum., 
N. striatell slightly-striped). f. greenish-yellow, umbellate ; 
wipe foraging striate ; peduncles erect. Mer. £ linear. 
Chili. Half-hardy. (B. M. 2419, under name of ithogalum 
gf comer ed). fl hite segments six, Janceo- 
N. striatum (striated-leaved). fl. white; : „lan 
n — Bh Mar k tin, to 8in. high, radical, upright, 
_ }inear-lorate, „ ENEN h. 8in. North-west America, &c. rdy. 
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-NOTOSPARTIUM (from notos, 
5 e eee Broom; in reference to the Broom- ap- 
a pearance of the plant, and its being a native 0 e 
Southern hemisphere). ORD. Leguminose. A móet 
curious monotypic genus, the species being a 8 ul 
and interesting, half-hardy or greenhouse, leafless 8 rub 
or small iree, of Broom-like habit. “This, the tak 
Broom’ of the residents in the Middle Islands of New 
Z d, is one of the most beautiful plants in the 
heals 4 : 
3 d is further remarkable as being a member o 
Phat . of the largest families of plants in © 
part of the world, except New Zealand. Indeed, the 
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Notospartium—continued. 
absence of Leguminose in New Zealand, in contrast 
especially with their great abundance in Australia, is the 
most singular feature in the Flora of the Island” 
(Hooker). It succeeds in a peaty soil, but can also 
be well grown in turfy loam. No doubt the plant will 
prove quite hardy in many places in Southern Britain. 
N. Carmichzeliz (Carmichael’s).* A. pink, rather small, in many- ` 
flowered racemes; calyx campanulate, truncate; standard 
obovate-obcordate, not auricled at the base; wings oblong, with 
Renta) workin cantatees; n n E Te amen 
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NOTYLIA (from notos, the back, and tylos, a hump; 
referring to a singular lump on the column). Ob. 
Orehidec. A small genus of low, stove, tropical American 
orchids. About eighteen species have been described ; 
but probably several. of these are merely varieties. 
Flowers mostly inconspicuons, racemose; sepals narrow, 
erect, or almost spreading; lip unguiculate and quite 
entire. Few of the species are seen under cultivation. 
They do best in small baskets full of peat fibre, potsherds, 
and sphagnum, or attached to a piece of teak with a 
little fresh sphagnum wired over base of plant, 
N. albida (whitish). P 2 small, dis in dense 
posed 
pendulous racemes ong. April. l. cuneate-ligulate, oblong, 
obtuse, acute. Pseudo- bulbs i 
Sears eee a T Bae 
N. bicolor (two-coloured). 12 12 white; 2 lilac, with 
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blue spots at base, wider colour as 
petals, free; spikes Srouping, Ain. 1 . about five, 
equitant, stiff, scimitar- ped, half the length of the flower- 
spikes. Guatemala, 1866. (B. M. 5609.) 
N. bi ta (bipartite). fl. numerous, similar to those of 
Dendrochilum. . 1866, ro 
N. 
ta (dotted). ellow, green; sepals and petals obtuse 
lip obcuneate, n. acute, 3 ut 14 h. bin, 
rinidad, 1822. (B. R. 759, under name of Pleurothallis punctata,) 
NUCLEUS. The central part of the ovule in which 
the embryo is engendered, 
NUNNEZHARIA. See Chamedorea, 
NUNNEZIA. See Chamedorea. 
NUPHAR (from Naufar, or Nyloufar, the Arabic 
name of Nymphea). ORD. Nympheacee. A small genus 
(three or four species) of very beautiful aquatic, perennial 
herbs, inhabiting the extra-tropical regions of the 
Northern hemisphere. Flowers yellowish, rather large; 
calyx of five or six concave, coriaceous sepals; 
many, small; stamens numerous, in several rows, ulti- 
mately bent backwards. Leaves peltate, floating. 
Nuphars are perfectly hardy, and thrive either in still 
or water. Although they are sometimes 
found at much greater depths, they perhaps succeed 
best when their stout rootstocks are pli in mud, 
with from 6in. to 12in. of water abi . 
the roots are fastened inside loosely-made wickerwork 
baskets of rich soil, and these placed under water in 
the spots where it is desired to have the plants grow, 
no difficulty will be experienced. Unless the newly- 
planted rootstocks are firmly fixed, they W 
float to the surface of the water; but, when treated 
as above suggested, the roots soon form and fix them- 
selves in the mud outside the baskets in which they 
have been placed. N. pumilum is a charming little 
plant, a much wer than either N. advena or 
smaller grower 
N. luteum, and, therefore, suitable for small pieces of 
water where those species would prove too large. All 
should be planted in fall sun, as, althongh the plants 
grow freely enough in shade, they only produce flowers 
when allowed the full benefit of sunlight. 
er).“ fl. yellow, with red anthers, large, on 
N. af, beg ix, petals many, small, shorter than the 
sepals, never exceeding the stamens, Summer. I. erect, cordate, 
with divaricated lobes, on half-round petioles. The leaves 
and flowers of this species rise considerably above the surface of 
the water. 1 (B. M. 684, under name of Nymphoea advena.) 
N. Kalmiana (Kalm's). A synonym of N. 1 2 
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