- 
AN ENCYCLOPADIA. 
OF HORTICUL’ 
SCHIZOLOMA. Included under Lindsaya (which 
` gee). 
SCHIZOMERIA (from schizo, to cut, and meris, a 
part; alluding to the cut petals). ORD. Savtfragee. A 
monotypic genus. The species is an ornamental, green- 
house, evergreen tree, thriving in a mixture of loam and 
sandy peat. Propagated by cuttings. 
S. ovata (ovate-leaved). fl. white, small, in terminal, trichoto- 
= mous cymes; calyx five-lobed, with a short tube; petals five, 
toothed. June. fr. a rather large, ovoid or globular drupe. 
l.“ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, mostly din. to 
4in. long, nearly entire, or with irregular, obtuse serratures, 
k. (in its native place) 50ft. Australia, 1825. . 
SCHIZONEURA LANUGINOSA. See Ameri- 
can Blight, or Woolly Aphis. 
SCHIZOPETALON (from schizo, to cut, and 
petalon, a petal; alluding to the cut or divided petals). 
Orv. Crucifere. A genus comprising five species of 
erect, slightly-branched, half-hardy, annual herbs, natives 
of Chili. Flowers purple or white, in terminal, leafy- 
bracted racemes; sepals erect, sub-equal at base; petals 
unguiculate, pinnately lobed, inyolute in sstivation. 
-= Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid. S. Walkeri, 
— the only species introduced, is a singular plant, thriving 
in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. Specimens should 
be raised in pots, in a greenhouse, during spring; some 
_of them may then be planted out in the borders; others 
may be kept in pots, and placed in an airy part of 
the greenhouse, where they will produce seeds, although 
sparingly. When transplanting, care must be taken not 
to injure the roots. eae 
— — 
S. Walkeri (W: š ft. white, in long racemes ; pedicels each 
“a linear bract. May to August. l. alternate, 
sinuately pinnatifid. k. lft. to 2ft. 1821. Whole plant beset 
with branched down. (B. M. 2379; B. R. 752; H. E. F. 74; 
S. B. F. G. ser. ii, 387. $ j 
SCHIZOPHRAGMA (from schizo, to cut, and 
phragma, an inclosure or wall; the portions of the wall 
between the ribs of the fruit fall away when it is ripe). 
ORD. Saxifrageæ. A monotypic génus. The species is a 
hardy shrub, allied to Hydrangea, which it much re- 
sembles in its flowers. It will thrive im any garden 
soil, but succeeds best when planted against a wall. 
Propagation may be effected by cuttings, inserted in 
sand, under a bell glass, in slight bottom heat; or by 
seeds. 
S. hydrangeoides (Hydrangea-like). Climbing Hydrangea. 
ee e or fiesh-coloured ; calyx tube turbinate, the limb five- 
thed; petals five, valvate; cyme corymbose, nearly flat at 
top, terminal, upwards of 6in. in diameter. Autumn. l de- 
ciduous, oppor en reddish, 2in.-to 4in. long, ovate-cordate, 
deeply toothed, löng-acuminate, loig and slenderly petiolate, 
A tall climber. Japan, 1879. (R. H. 1881, p. 313; S.Z. F. J. 26.) 
SCHIZOPLEURA. Included under Beaufortia. 
SCHIZOPTERIS. Included under Cheilanthes. 
SCHIZOSTEMMA. A synonym of Oxypetalum 
(which see). 
` $CHIZOSTYLIS (from schizo, to cut, and stylos, 
a style; the style is divided into three long, filiform 
branches). Orp. Jridew. A genus consisting of a couple 
of species of greenhouse or half-hardy, South African 
plants. Flowers sessile in a spathe; perianth red, showy, 
the tube slender, very shortly enlarged at the throat, 
the lobes equal, oblong ot ovate, spreading; stamens 
affixed to the throat; spathes scattered at the sides of 
a-simple peduncle. Leaves linear or narrow-ensiform. 
Stems fascicled on a rhizome, ebulbous or slightly 
bulbous-thickened at base. S. coccinea, the only species 
introduced, is a very handsome inhabitant of our gardens. 
It grows freely in a warm, sunny border, such as may 
' often be found in front of a glass structure. The shoots 
are produced in abundance, and the flowers, which appear 
in autumn, retain their beauty for a considerable period. 
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The plant is also well adapted for pot-culture, as the 
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flowers come to perfection, under such treatment, 
greenhouse, and are very useful for cutting. — 
may be readily effected, in spring, by di 
plants, and inserting pieces, consisting of fr 
six shoots, in prepared soil, about 9in. apart. Sandy — 
loam and peat, or leaf soil, forms a good compost. T 
S. coccinea (scarlet).* Crimson Flag; Kaffir Lily. jl. ten to 
fourteen in a distichous spike ; perianth tube shorter than the 
bracts ; limb 2in. across, of six spreading, uniform, ovate-oblong, 
very acute lobes ; anthers yellow. October and November. J, long, 
sheathing, sword-shaped, carinate, the longest —— the 
base ; upwards they gradually form bracts. A. 3ft. . Half- 
hardy. (B. M. 5422; F. d. 8. 1637; F. M. 183; I. H. 394.) 
SCHKUHRIA (named after Christian Schkuhr, 1741- 
1811, of the University of Wurtemburg, who published 
some botanical works). Syns. Mieria, Tetracarpum. In- 
cluding Achyropappus and Chamestephanium. ORD. 
Composite. A genus comprising about eight species of 
annual herbs, natives of South and Central America as 
far as Mexico. Flower-heads yellow, small, long-stalked. 
Leaves slender, dissected. The species have no horti- 
cultural value. 
SCHLIMMIA (named in compliment to M. Schlim, 
one of M. Linden’s plant-collectors), ORD. Orchidee. 
Three species have been referred to this genus; they 
are closely-related, stove, epiphytal orchids, natives of 
the Columbian Andes. Flowers rather large, fleshy, 
few in a raceme, shortly pedicellate; posterior sepal 
free, concave-carinate ; lateral ones very broad, connate 
with the foot of the erect column; petals narrower, 
spreading at apex; lip variously lobed, the apex reclining. 
on the foot of the column; pollen masses two; bracts 
oblong; scapes erect or recurved, simple, few-sheathed. 
Leaf coriaceous, contracted into the petiole. Pseudo- 
bulbs oblong, somewhat fusiform, one-leaved. Two of 
the species have been introduced. They should be grown 
in a pot with good drainage, and placed in the Cattleya 
house. oe i 
— urple, bearing a 
raceme of about four flowers. l 
elongate-ovate, clustered. New Gre 1877. (G. C. n. s., 
vit. 141.) 
SCHLUMBERGERIA (named in honour of F. 
Schlumberger, a Belgian horticulturist). Anoplophytum 
has been used as a generic name for one or more of the 
species. ORD. Bromeliacew, A rather doubtful, South 
American genus, comprising two or three species of stove, 
perennial herbs. Flowers mediocre or rather large, dis- 
posed in rather loosely-branched spikes; _ sepals erect, 
convolute-imbricated, free; petals connate in a tube, the 
limb free, spreading or at length reflexed; stamens adnate 
to the tube; bracts shorter than the calyx. _Leaves 
rosulate, entire, long-ligulate. ‘The species require cul- 
ture similar to Tillandsia (which see). 
Lind inden’ This is the correct name of the plant 
m pinden Cina. as Massangea Lindeni. 
Morreniana (Morren’s). fl. yellow; bracts dark purple; — 
——— several, Soe merce —— into a short, —— i 
bunch; scape tall, with green, adpressed bracts. /. gr lly 
rec 4 Bet. long, green, marked with numerous dar — 
transverse lines above, and with reddish lines beneath, rite 
unknown. 1883. A noble plant. (B. H. 1883, 4-6.) — 
Roezlii ’s). . sessile, spirally: arranged, I — 
—* green ; — 5 and green, salver-shaped. L Te 
Tong, os wide, spreading, unarmed, — h. Andes of 
Peru, 1879. A plant of bold habit. (B. H. 1879, "a 
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