TYPHONIUM 



THE RULB BOOK 



URCEOLIKA 



temperature should not go below 55° 

 to GO F. 



T. Clarkei.— A native of Sikkim, 

 with thick creeping rhizomes, 

 oblanceolate glossy leaves 4 ft. 

 long and over 4 ins. broad on stiffish 

 erect stalks. Flowers dull reddish- 

 purple inside, at first green outside 

 with purple margins, but entirely 

 buflf later on. {Bot. J far/, t. 7957.) 



Other species are T. macrostigma, 

 dark purple (Hot. Ma;/, t. 6280) ; and 

 T, squalida, dull violet (JJot. Mag. 

 tt. 1655, 3054). 



TYPHONIUM (after Typhon, a 

 monster with 100 snakes' heads. The 

 plants are used to cure snake-bites 

 in the East). Nat. Ord. Aroideaj. 

 — A genus containing over a dozen 

 species of tuberous - rooted herbs 

 having long-stalked Arum-like leaves 

 cut into three to five lobes in some 

 species. 



T. giganteum Giraldi. — A native 

 of the moist places in the light woods 

 of X. China, where it was discovered 

 by Fr. Giraldi. It has large roundish 

 tubers and broad, bright green, wavy, 

 thick - ribbed leaves with speckled 

 stalks. The peduncle, which is also 

 speckled, bears a large, more or less 

 constricted spathe 8 to 10 ins. long, 

 and of a deep purple colour tinged 

 with olive. The cylindrical blackish 

 spadix in the centre is very con- 

 spicuous. {Gard. (Jhron. 30th August 

 1902, 150, f.) 



This species having been proved 

 hardy in Sweden, should prove an 

 acquisition to the hardy Aroids in 

 the British Islands. Other species, 

 however, require a warm greenhouse 

 or stove temperature. Father Gir- 

 aldi's variety of T. (/if/antevm might 

 be grown in well-drained gritty soil, 

 and is apparently easily increased 

 from seeds, or by offsets from the 

 tubers. 



URCEOCHARIS (made up from 

 Urceolhia and J'Jiic/iaris). Nat. Ord. 

 Amaryllidcffi. — This title represents 

 an interesting bi - generic hybrid 

 between Urceolina pendula and 

 Emharis fjraiidljiora, kno\vn under 

 the name of U. Clibrani. It is 

 intermediate between its parents in 

 almost every particular, and has 

 white-stalked flowers in trusses on 

 top of the stem. {dard. Chron. 1892, 

 ii. f. 36 ; Joiirn. Hort. 1893, xxvi. f. 38). 



This plant is still very rare. It 

 will nourish in a warm greenhouse, 

 in a compost of rich sandy loam and 

 leaf-soil, with a little well-decayed 

 cow-manure. 



URCEOLINA {vrceolus, a little urn 

 or pitcher ; in reference to the shape 

 of the flowers). Nat. Ord. Amaryl- 

 lideae. — This genus consists of the 

 three species mentioned below. They 

 are herbaceous plants with tunicated 

 bulbs 1 to 2 ins. in diameter, thin 

 stalked oblong or lance-shaped leaves, 

 and umbels of urn - shaped flowers 

 drooping from the top of a fleshy 

 leafless scape. 



The Urceolinas are natives of the 

 Andes of Peru and Bolivia, one 

 species, U. miniata, being found at an 

 altitude of 10,000 ft. They are easily 

 grown in a cool or slightly warm 

 greenhouse, and may be potted in a 

 compost of rich sandy loam and leaf- 

 soil. Growth commences in spring, 

 and a fair amount of moisture is 

 necessary at the root, until the plants 

 show signs of going to rest in the 

 autumn and winter. Then the bulbs 

 are kept dry and cool until they 

 show signs of life again in spring. 

 They may be shaken out of the old 

 soil and repotted, or some of the old 

 soil may be removed from the top, 

 and replaced with fresh compost. 

 Off"scts are the simplest method of 

 increase. 



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