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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Phyllocladus— continued. 
introduced, succeed in a strong, loamy soil. They may 
be increased by means of cuttings of the ripened shoots, 
inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in spring. Bottom 
heat should be withheld until the cuttings commence 
swelling at the base. 
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Fig. 136. PHYLLOCLADUS GLAUCA, showing Habit, detached 
Branch, Phyllode, and Cluster of Fruits. 
P, uea (glaucous). Male catkins terminal, oine anthers 
yellow ; female catkins at the extremities of the phyllodes, sessile, 
narrow. Phyllodes fan-wedge-shaped, irregularly lobed, thick, 
coriaceous, rusty-green above, light shining green beneath. Seeds 
shining, about the size of a grain of Hemp. Tasmania, 1853. 
Shrub or small tree. See Fig. 136. 
P. hypophylia (under-leaf). Phyllodes narrow, ovate-rhomboid 
or ovate-oblong, obliquely cuneate at base, scarcely attenuated 
into a petiole, crenate-lobed ; lobes oblong, obtuse, crenulated, 
glaucous beneath. A. 10ft. to 30ft. Borneo. Tree. 
P. rhomboidalis (rhomboidal).* Adventure Bay Pine. L, real 
ones, or scales, very small and subulate or fine-pointed. Cla- 
dodia, or deciduous leaf-like branchlets, cuneate or rhomboidal, 
obtuse, obtusely toothed or lobed, Zin. to 2in. long. New 
Z 2 A slender tree, 60ft. in height, or reduced to a 
shrub on the tops of mountains. SYN. Podocarpus asplenifolius. 
P. trichomanoides (Trichomanes-like). Phyllodes distichous, 
with scales (rudimentary leaves) at their base, gin. to lin. long, 
obliquely rhomboid, cuneate, or ovate, simple or pinnatifidly 
lobed; lobes truncate, erose. cones compressed, solitary on the 
margins of the phyllodes. A. 40ft. New Zealand, 1840, A 
slender tree. ; 
-PHYLLOCYCLUS. Included under Canscora. 
PHYLLODES. A synonym of Phrynium (which 
see). ' 
P LLODES. Flattened leaf-like petioles (with- 
out blades). A large number of the Australian Acacias 
bear no true leaves, but Phyllodes, which perform the 
same functions. 
PHYLLODIUM. . 
(which see). 
PHYLLODOCE (mame of a nymph mentioned by 
Virgil; with an allusion to the shining leaves in the deriva- 
tion phyllon, a leaf, and dokein, to shine), ORD. Ericacee. 
A genus comprising only three species of small, hardy, 
Heath-like shrubs, inhabiting the mountainous and frigid 
regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Flowers 
pink, blue, or purple, drooping, long-stalked, sub-um- 
bellate at the tips of the branchlets; calyx five-parted, 
persistent ; corolla ovoid, with five erect or recurved 
lobes; pedicels bracteate and bibracteolate at the base. 
Capsules erect. Leaves articulated with the branchlets, 
clustered, linear or linear - oblong, obtuse, entire or ser- 
rulated, coriaceous, persistent, shining, with revolute 
margins. The two species described below should be 
grown in peat, and propagated by layers. 
P. ceerulea (blue). A synonym of P. taxifolia. 
P. em ormis (Empetrum-like). See Bryanthus em- 
petrifolius. 
P. taxifolia (Yew-leaved). fl. lilac, few, drooping, in terminal, 
umbellate corymbs ; corolla urceolate; pedicels żin. to 14in. long. 
May. l. shortly penned, crowded, spreading, linear, obtuse, 
denticulate, zin. zin. long. Branches tubercled. h. 2ft. 
Europe (Britain), North America, &c. SYNS. P. cerulea, Menziesia 
cerulea (L. B. C. 164; Sy. En. B. 886). 
PHYLLOMA. A synonym of Lomatophyllum 
(which see). 
PHYLLOMANIA. An unusual production of leaves. 
Included under Desmodium 
A PHYLLOPERTHA HORTICOLA. See May 
ugs. 
'ACHYA. Included under Habenaria 
(which see). : 
PHYLLOSTACHYS (from phyllon, a leaf, and 
stachys, a spike; alluding to branchlets being furnished 
with leaves). ORD. Graminee. A genus comprising four 
or five species of arborescent, Chinese and Japanese 
grasses, with semi-terete stems, prominent lobes, and 
sub-verticillate, fascicled, leaf-bearing branchlets. Spike- 
lets few (one to four) flowered, shortly sub-spicate, 
inclosed by one or two spathaceous bracts; spikes dense 
or loose, in loose, often numerous panicles. Leaves 
shortly petiolate, articulated with the sheaths, flat, tessel- 
lately veined. Whangee Canes appear to be the produce 
of P. nigra, the stems of which, “although slender, 
are nearly solid, and appear to be generally used for 
such purposes as require great strength and toughness. 
Chairs, pipe-stems, and walking-sticks are often seen 
in England made from the culms of this species” 
(T. Lo Be Te 55). 
P. bambusoides (Bambusa-like). fl., fertile spikelets three to 
five-flowered, ten to twelve lines long; spikes lin. to 2in. lo 
inflorescence very variable, usually with the aspect of a pani 
2ft. long. l. oblong-lanceolate, rounded or attenuated at base, 
petiolate, very acute at apex, usually Sin. to 4in. long, and zin. to 
zin. broad. Culms reed-like, 10ft. to 12ft. high, unarmed, semi- 
terete, yellow, very smooth above, the nodes prominent, highly 
glabrous, Japan. 
P. nigra (black).“ J. linear-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded 
or attenuated at base, shortly petiolate, usually 2in. to Sin. long, 
and four to six lines broad, one or both margins bristly ciliated, 
glabrous above, pale and almost pubescent beneath. Culm some- 
times dwarf, 4ft. to 5ft. high, sometimes (in cultivation, e.g., a 
fine specimen in the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, which was, 
unfortunately, destroyed by fire there) 25ft. high. China and 
Japan. SYN. Bambusa nigra. 
PHYLLOSTICTA. See Sphaeropsidex. 
PHYLLOTA (from phyllon, a leaf, and ous, otis, an 
` ear; referring to the shape of the leaves). ORD. Legu- 
