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= THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Pellionia—continued. 
P. Daveauana veau's).* green; females very minute ; 
males six to signe times as ; perianths er in- 
florescence pedunculate, 33 cymose. August. (. alternate, 
sti — to 2łin. long, oblique, roundish-elliptic or elliptic- 
3 „ dark -olive-green, slightly tinted with 
violet, or marked with a broad, rege aoa tes band of bright 
green, Stems suceulent. Cochin ? . A charming 
creeper, SYN. Begonia Daveauana. (J. H. n. s. 472.) 
P. D. viridis (green), “. uniformly bright n, with whitish 
blotches. Stem, as well as the 2 „and veins, of the 
leaves, sparsely hairy. 1882. 
Paene aiaa, Sha Clits tas apar maS 
Ey ace E E 
ay hg hy eS 
upper side of the petioles. (I. II. 479.) 
PELLITORY. See Pyrethrum Parthenium, 
PELONASTES. Included under Myriophyllum 
(which see). 
_ PELORIA. “An irrogular flower, become regular 
l eee a complementary irregu: 
; pelte, a target, and aner, 
ANDRA (from 
andros, a stamen; alluding to the shape of the stamens). 
Srna. ia, Renselaeria, Onn, Aroidew (Aracea). 
A genus comprising only a couple of species of hardy, 
marsh-loving, perennial herbs, with very slender rhizomes, 
natives of North-eastern America. Spathe convolute, with 
an elongated, persistent tube, and the margins of the 
lamina undalated; spadix much shorter than the spathe, 
slender, erect, cylindrical, almost entirely covered, 
excopt at the top, with densely-crowded flowers. Leaves 
sub-peltate, hastate, with very slender, dense nerves; 
petioles long, sheathing. P. virginica, the species best 
known in gardens, must be grown, like Calla, in 
shallow water, in a sunny, sheltered pond. 
CC 
f of spadix, rotting a after 
, ; heavier the baso Armily closing the globular 
5 cluster fruit” Gray June. l large, „ nory 
— 1 ; margin. A. lft. 1769. 3 
. A synonym of Vallaris (which 
see). 
to the form of the pods). 
P. alliacea ia a pretty little plant. It flourishes 
in any light soil, and may be increased either by seeds, 
or by division. 
P. Onion-se * 3 
e 
. i u 
odour. (J. F. A. 12) 8 
Pioltate when the petiole is attached 
te the lower surface instead of to 
the margin. See Fig. 73. 
_ PELTATIFID. When a pel- 
tate leaf is sub-divided. 
| They require a sandy-peat soil. 
Peltophorum—continued. 
stigma). ORD. Leguminose. A genus of about half-a- 
dozen species of tall, unarmed, stove trees, of which two 
or three are tropical American, one is found in South- 
eastern Africa, and two in the Indian Archipelago and 
tropical Australia. Flowers yellow, racemose ; calyx seg- 
ments five, imbricated; petals five, orbicular, spread- 
ing, much-imbri r paniculate, at the tips 
of the branches. Pods oblong-lanceolate, rarely elongated, 
flat-compressed, indehiscent. Leaves bipinnate; leaflets 
small, numerous. P. Linnæi is described in this work as 
Cesalpinia brasiliensis. 
PELTOSTIGMA (from pelte, a buckler, and stigma; 
alluding to the protuberance of the stigma). Syn. Pachy- 
stigma. ORD. Rutacew. A monotypic genus. The species 
is a very glabrous, low, fragrant, stove, evergreen tree. 
It thrives in sandy loam and fibry peat. Propagated 
by cuttings, inserted under a bell glass, in heat. 
P. Ptelea-like w 
F 
tomous cymes ; sepals or four, free, decid 
ones smaller; petals four, broadly o 7 ; 
with leafy braci i. alternate, trifoliolate; leatiets 
amaica, 1844, 
nr 
5 
ts. February. 
elliptic, sub-entire, gland-dotted. J 
PELVIFORM. Shallowly cup-shaped ; basin-like. 
PEMPHIGUS. 
with the white secretion. The insects prefer li sandy 
soils. P. lactucarius and P. fuscifrons both injure garden 
considerably at times, See Lettuce. M. Lich- 
mechs i aati ad ee ee 
ments in support of the belief that the gall-makers pass 
through a cycle, in which a generation of gall-makers 
on trees alternates with one feeding on the roots of 
herbaceous plants; and he has proved that this occurs 
with the allied Tetraneura Ulmi, the maker of the erect 
i 
versa. 
after P. Pena, author, 
of “ Adversaria Botanica,” 1570). 
limb valvate. Leaves opposite, sessile, entire, 
coriaceous; floral ones more conformed, or broader and 
shorter, than the cauline ones. It is doubtful whether 
species described below are still in cultivation. 
b Propagation 
effected by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass. 
— — (mucronate). fl. and 
ponents kate Tee . 6 50%) ee 
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