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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Empleurum—continued. 
seeds attached to a sort of coriaceous membrane). ORD. 
Rutacem. An ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrub. 
For cultivation, see Diosma. 
E. serrulatum (serrulate). Л. small, axillary, solitary, or in 
pairs; peduncles short, bracteolate. June. l. alternate, linear- 
oblong, smooth, covered with glandular dots beneath. A. 2ft. to 
3ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1774. 
ENCEPHALARTOS (from en, within, kephale, the 
head, and artos, bread; the inner parts of the top of the 
trunk are farinaceous) ORD. Cycadacew. Very hand- 
some greenhouse or conservatory plants, allied to Cycas ; 
natives of tropical or Southern Africa. Leaves pinnate, 
thick, spiny, terminal. Trunk tall, cylindrical. Encepha- 
lartos thrive best in a strong loamy soil, with some river 
sand added. They are of very slow growth, unless kept 
in a high temperature. During the growing season, water 
should be copiously applied, both from water-pot and 
syringe; but when not making new growth, which some- 
times is the case for several years, little water will be 
needed. Increased by seeds. Some of the species have 
been used most effectively in sub-tropical gardening, 
during the summer months. 
L Altensteinii (Altenstein’s).* 1. pinnate, 2ft. to 6ft. in length; 
pinne нне, about біп. long, lin. broad, dark ы 
above, paler below; apex and edges with long sharp рше. 
. petioles much swollen at the base. Trunk stout. Cape of Good 
. Hope, 1835. See Fig. 704. (G.C. n. s., vi. 392.) — 
E. Vromii (Vrom’s). Z. pinnate; pinne alternate below. 
M e кы to айу. in number a each ps 
rachis, oblong-lanceolate ; a spiny ; mar, with long spiny 
teeth ; rachis marked with’ a prominent rounded ridge in the 
ntre. South Africa, 1871. : 
cda short-leaved). l. pinnate, spreading ; pinne 
: in. wide, stiff; apex spiny, Sinak 
| тем Trunk stout. South Africa. 
rian). Caffer Bread. i. pinnate, 3ft. to 4ft. long, 
ed аё the apex, with a v sit texture imis 
r 
FiG. 704. ENCEPHALARTOS ALTENSTEINIL. - 
erectish ; apex 
4ft. in circumference; | 
Encephalartos—continuwed. 
globose, 4in. to 6in. in circumference, woolly-tomentose. South 
rica, 1879. 
E. Ghellinckii (Ghellinck’s). Z. pinnate, erect, spreading out 
from about the middle, 2ft. to 4ft. long ; pinnz linear-filiform, 
densely tomentose. Trunk stout, furnished with woolly scales, 
Plant spineless. South Africa, 1867. (I. H. 567.) 
E. Hildebrandtii (Hildebrandt's) 1. pinnate ; pinnz numerous, 
lower pairs diminishing into tritid scales jin. long, larger ones 
lanceolate, with distinct marginal and stronger and more crowded 
terminal teeth; petioles clothed at base with close cobwebby 
hairs. Trunk cylindrical. Zanzibar, 1877. (R. H. 1880, 456.) 
E. horridus (horrid).* Z. pinnate, 2%. to 6ft. long, erect, abruptly 
reflexed at the top; pinnz about 4in. long, with а long, sharp 
spine at the point. Trunk stout, short. Plant blue-green ; tex- 
` ture harsh. South Africa, 1800. (G. C. 1865, 1151.) In the 
variety trispinosus, the inferior margin of the pinnz is armed 
with three spines. 
E. lan osus (woolly). Z. pinnate, 3ft. to 6ft. long, erect, 
recurved towards the apex; ріпп:е cordate-lanceolate, obtusely 
ointed, thick, біп, long, liin. broad. Trunk 6ft. to 8ft. high, 
ft. in circumference. South Africa. Plant dark heavy green 
in colour, spineless. ' 
E. Lehmanni (Lehmann's) Z pinnate, 6ft. long; pi some- 
what erect, біп. to 7in. long, Jin. wide, with a short brown spine 
at the apex. Trunk 2ft. to 3ft. in circumference. South Africa. 
Plant very glaucous. WIS 
* 
E. M‘Kenii QU Ken. 1. about 2ft. long, 
pinnate; pi: smooth, narrowly-lanceolate, 
somewhat distant, with a few teeth in their 
E. plumosus (feathery).* 7. , pinnate ; 
pinne armed with stout margin spines, 
Trunk thick. South Africa, 1869. 
E. Verschaffelti (Verschaffelt's) Z. pin- 
nate; pinn:z in. long, linear-anceolate. 
South Africa, 1875. 
growing species. 
E. villosus (hairy).* Z. pinnate, 3ft. to 6ít. 
in length, tapering at the base and apex; 
pinnz very numerous, spiny-toothed, біп. to 
Sin. in length, lin. in breadth, terminating 
in a sharp spine; petioles densely tomen- 
tose. Trunk short, thick, woolly - scaly. 
A.6ft. Natal, 1866. (B. M. 6654.) 
E. v. ampliatus (enlarged).* /. elegantly 
arching ; pinne lanceolate, the teeth more 
numerous towards the tips; petiole thickly 
clothed at base with woolly hairs. Trunk 
cylindrical. 1874. 
ENCHANTER’S NIGHT- 
A stout and erect- 
ENCYCLIA. A synonym of Poly- 
stachya (which see). - ТОРУ 
= ENDIVE (Cichorium Endivia). А 
_ hardy annual, cultivated in this coun- _ 
try since the early part of the six- . 
teenth century, for the use of its _ 
leaves as a salad before the flower- =- 
stems appear. It is hardier than the _ 
majority of Lettuces, and in season — 
more in the autumn: and winter; its cultivation in - 
early summer is not generally followed by good ге: 
in use when few other salading — 
obtained, the cultivation sl 
with a view to supplying 
iod i 
over as long a inw nter м T ;ossib. 
somewhat strange that many amateurs and cottagers, who 
| eonsider their garden 'erops incofnplete without a suc- 
cession of Lettuces, should ‘omit altogether the cultiva- 
tion of Endive when the latter is just as easily grown, 
and may be sown or planted on land from which a 
previous crop has been taken. The means of blanching, 
also of protecting, might be accomplished in various 
z those who took suficient interest in doing it, 
