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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
SCHIZANTHUS (from schizo, to cut, and anthos, 
a flower; alluding to the incised corolla). Butterfly or 
Fringe Flower. ORD. Solanacee. A small genus (about 
seven species have been described) of very beautiful and 
showy, erect, more or less glandular-viscous, half-hardy, 
annual herbs, restricted to Chili. Flowers variously 
coloured ; calyx deeply five-cleft; corolla tube short or 
elongated, cylindrical; limb spreading, oblique, plaited, 
sub-bilabiate, imbricated, elegantly incised; perfect 
stamens two; cymes terminal. Leaves often pinnatisect, 
the segments entire or toothed. The species and varieties 
of Schizanthus form very elegant, free-flowering, border 
plants, in summer and autumn, outside. The half-hardy 
kinds may be sown in a little heat, in spring, and after- 
wards planted out; or in autumn, and preserved in a 
cool house or pit through the winter. S. pinnatus and 
its garden varieties are hardy, and will grow and flower 
freely if sown in the open ground, in March or April. 
These plants are well adapted for pot-culture to flower 
in early spring; for this purpose, seeds should be sown 
in August or September, and the young plants grown 
on singly in a frame or house where frost is merely 
excluded. They may be grown to flower in Tin. or 8in. 
pots, during early spring, when the plants become, in a 
greenhouse temperature, a mass of elegant foliage and 
euriously-shaped blossoms. Seeds ripen in great abund- 
ance. A rich soil is advisable for pot-culture, after the 
plants are strong enough to bear it; in the open ground, 
also, they well repay liberal treatment. The best-known 
species are here described. 
S. candidus (white).* 7., corolla white; anterior lip segments 
laterally bilobed, the lobes shortly and irregularly incised. July. 
l. pinnatisect or deeply pinnatifid ; segments entire, few-toothed. 
- h. 2ft. 1843. Allied to S. Hookeri. (B. R. 1843, 45.) 
S. Evansianus (Evans’). A synonym of S. pinnatus. 
. 
Fic. 446. FLOWERING BRANCH AND DETACHED FLOWER OF 
SCHIZANTHUS GRAHAMI. 
S. Grahami (Graham’s).* l. ample ; corolla lilac or rose-colour ; 
upper lip yellow, tipped with Tac ; tube equalling the calyx. 
June to October. Z. once or twice pinnatisect ; segments entire 
or ate h, 2ft. 1831. See Fig. 446. (B. M. 3044; 
F. d. S. ; B. G. 385.) : 
S. G. retusus (retuse).* f much larger than in the type; corolla 
intense rose-colour ; middle segment of the anterior lip orange 
“near the apex. J. less dissected. (B. M. 3045, B. R. 1544, and 
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Schizanthus—continued. 
S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 201, under name of S. retusus.). A sub-variety 
has white flowers with crimson tips. 
S. Hookeri (Hooker's). fl., corolla pale rose-colour, except the 
middle of the upper segment, which is —— middle seg- 
~ ment of the lower lip furnished with two long horns; stamens 
long-exserted. J. similar to those of S. Grahami. h. 2ft. 1828. 
(B.M. 3070.) 
S. pinnatifidus (pinnatifid-leaved). A synonym of S. pinnatus 
S. pinnatus (pinnate-leaved).* fi., corolla tube shorter than the 
calyx; posterior lip often violet or lilac, the middle segment 
cucullate, bilobed ; anterior lip pale, the middle segment more or 
less yellowish, and spotted with purple or violet, emarginate, 
the lateral ones four-lobed. June to October, /. once or twice 
pinnatitid; segments entire, toothed, or incised - pinnatifid. 
h. 2ft. 1822. The following figures represent diflerent forms 
of this variable plant: B. M. 2404; B. R. 725, 1562; H..E. F. 73; 
P. M. B. ii. 198; S. B. F. G. 63, and ser. ii. 97. 
ianus (L. & P. F. G. viii. 171), S. pinnatifidus, S. porrigens (B. M. 
2521; H. E. F. 86; S. B. F. G. 76). S. Priesti (L. & P. F. G. i. 31) 
is a white-flowered form. 
S. porrigens (spreading). A synonym of S. pinnatus. 
S. Priestii (Priest’s) A form of S. pinnatus. 
Syns. S. Evans- 
- S. retusus (retuse), A synonym of S. Grahami retuss. 
SCHIZOBASIS (from schizo, to cut, and basis, the 
base; the withered perianth separates at its base from _ 
the receptacle, and is pushed off by the swelling fruit ` 
in the form of a ealyptra). Orv. Liliacee. A genus con- 
sisting of five species of stove or greenhouse, bulbous 
plants, natives of tropical and South Africa. Flowers 
small, racemose or scattered at the sides of the branches; 
perianth marcescent, persistent, with equal, spreading 
segments; stamens six; bracts minute or obsolete. 
Leaves radical, early, few, linear, rather thick, absent in 
flowering specimens. Stem leafless, slender, branched. 
S. intricata, the only species introduced, requires green- © 
house heat, and full sunshine. It thrives in light loam, 
and may be increased by seeds, or by offsets. 
S. intricata (intricate). fl., perianth white, with a green dorsal 
rib; racemes ultimately ver loose, 14in. to 2in. long; panicle 
obversely deltoid, 2in. to 6in. long and broad, the branches 
ascending ; scape firm, slender, 2in. to 6in. long. Z. four to ten, 
— erect, fleshy, glabrous, 2in. to 3in. long. South Africa, 
SCHIZOCÆNA SINUATA. A synonym of Cyathea 
sinuata. — ec 
SCHIZOCARP. A pericarp which splits into one- 
seeded pieces. ; 
SCHIZOCENTRON. A synonym of Heeria (which 
see). ; ; 
SCHIZODIUM (from schizo, to cut; alluding to the 
cleft column). ORD. Orchideæ. A genus comprising ten 
species of slender, terrestrial, greenhouse orchids, with se 
undivided tubers, natives of South Africa. Upper sepal® 
erect, concave or galeate, the base produced in a spur, 
the lateral ones free and spreading; petals erect or 
spreading ; lip spreading from the base of the column, 
free, contracted above into a claw, not spurred, the 
blade undivided; column very short, bipartite. Leaves 
sub-radical, usually small. None of the species are at 
present in cultivation. 
SCHIZOLOBIUM (from schizo, to split, and lobos, 
a pod; probably alluding to the dehiscence of the pod), 
ORD. Leguminose. <A genus: comprising two (?) species 
of tall, stove, evergreen trees, one from Brazil, and the 
other (perhaps a variety) a native of Panama. Flowers 
racemose; calyx segments imbricated, reflexed; petals 
five, unguiculate, ovate or rounded; stamens ten, free; 
racemes axillary or paniculate at the tips of the branches; 
bracts small. Pods one-seeded. Leaves bipinnate, ample; 
leaflets numerous, small. 8. excelswm has been intro- 
duced, and requires culture similar to that recommended 
for Cesalpinia. ` 
S. excelsum (lofty). fl. Telov : peduncles glabrous ; 
adpressediy pilose, J. eig 
twenty-jugate, oblong, very shortly petiolulate, white 
neath, 
and golden-pilose on the middle nerve ; common petiole often —* 
1874. oie 
long, glabrous, A. (in Brazil) 120ft. 
¥ 
teen-jugate ; leaflets 2in. long, about _ 
