224 THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Prismatocarpus—continued. 
house or hardy, glabrous, perennial herbs or sub-shrubs, 
confined to South Africa. Flowers at the tips of the 
branches, short, solitary or glomerate, or disposed in 
dichotomous, slender, slightly rigid panicles; calyx with 
an adnate, linear tube, and a five-eut or five-parted limb ; 
corolla infundibuliform or broadly campanulate, five- 
lobed; inflorescence centrifugal. Leaves alternate, small 
or narrow, in the lower part of the stem, often fascicu- 
late in the axils. For culture of P. nitidws—the best- 
known species—see Campanula. See also Specularia. 
P. nitidus (shining). white, two to four in a cluster towards 
the tops of the branchés, sessile in the axils of the bracts, and 
sometimes solitary in the axils of the leaves ; bracts similar to the 
leaves. August and September, l. ovate-oblong, spreading, ser- 
rated. Stem branched; branches diffuse, woody. . bin, to 
12in. 1787. Greenhouse. (B. M. 2733, under name of Campanula 
Prismatocarpus.) 
DIA (named after W. T. Pritchard, 
author of “ Polynesian Reminiscences”), ORD. Palme. 
Fig. 288. PRITCHARDIA VUYLSTEKIANA. 
A small genus (about seven species) of very ornamental, 
stove, unarmed palms, natives of the Friendly and Sand- 
wich Islands. Flowers rather large, hermaphrodite, with 
a three-parted calyx and corolla, and six stamens; spathe 
ample, affixed to the peduncle, often silvery-furfuraceous ; 
spadices long-pedunculate, about 3ft. long, with ascending 
branchlets. Fruit small or rather large, globose or 
ellipsoid, one-seeded. Leaves terminal, large, often white- 
— induplicate ; petioles concave ; sheaths short. The species 
d’s). l slightly rayed, cuneate at 
the middle laciniw nearly twenty 
— reip y 
P. grandis (great). A synonym of Licuala grandis. 
Pritchardia—continued. 
. macrocarpa (large-fruited). l. larger than in P. Martii, 
roundish-flabellate, plicate, divided one-third the way down into 
numerous linear-lanceolate, acute segments. Sandwich Tslands, 
1879. This species somewhat resembles P. Martii, but is more 
robust in habit. (I. H. 352.) — 
P. Martii (Martius’). ` l. dark green, flabelliform, plaited ; petioles 
smooth, unarmed, inclosed at the base in a few rough, brown 
fibres. Sandwich Islands. A cies of recent introduction, 
quite distinct from P. pacifica, and having very small seeds. 
P. ifica (Pacific Islands).* J. of a rich dark green, large, 
flabellate, palmatisect, plaited, covered with white down when 
young ; petioles clothed with a white, scaly tomentum, flat 
above, rounded below, inclosed at the base in a few coarse, brown 
fibres, and totally unarmed. h. 10ft. Pacific Islands, 1870. A 
fine species. (F. d. S. 2262-3; I. H. n. s. 161.) 
. pericularum (Dangerous Archipelago).* A handsome, fan- 
leaved palm, resembling P. Vuylstekiana, but differing in having 
dark brownish-golden petioles, and obliquely spherical fruit. 
Pomotou Islands, 1883. i 
P. V (Vuylsteke’s).* Z. large, deep green, crowded 
on the young plant, which is short and thick-set. Pomotou 
Islands of the Dangerous Archipelago. See Fig. 288. (G. C. 
n. S., xix. 692.) 
i 
PRIVA (a name of — meaning, given by 
Adanson). Syns. Streptivm, Tortula. Orv. Verbenacew 
A genus comprising about nine species of erect, stove 
or greenhouse herbs, inhabiting the warmer regions | 
the globe. Flowers small or mediocre, solitary at the 
axils of the small, narrow bracts, very shortly pedicel- 
late; calyx ribs five, produced in short teeth,, enlarged 
in fruit ; corolla sub-bilabiate, five-lobed; spikes terminal 
or peduneulate in the axils, long, slender. Leaves 
opposite, membranous, toothed. — ies calls 
for mention kere. For culture, see 
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