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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 
MUSSZiNDA. To the species described on p. 401, 
Vol. II., the following should now be added: 
M. erythrophyllia (red-leaved). l. three or four, sulphur- 
yellow, funnel-shaped, borne on short pedicels; bracts dazzling 
scarlet, roundish-ovate, 3}in. long, Sin. broad. J. opposite, 
roundish-ovate, bright green. Congo, 1888. A shrub, wholly 
covered with silky pubescence. 
MUTISIA. To the species described on p. 401, 
Vol. II., the following should now be added: 
M. breviflora (short-flowered). l.-heads lin. in diameter; ray 
florets orange-red, jin. long, nearly jin. broad, obtuse; disk 
yellow. 7. pale green, ovate-oblong, retuse or emarginate, 
cordate at base, 2}in. long, ljin. broad, the margins armed with 
somewhat distant, spiny teeth, the midrib produced into a 
tendril. Chilian Andes, 1885. Greenhouse, scrambling shrub. 
(R. G. 1163, f. 1.) 
M. versicolor (various-coloured), j.-heads, ray florets orange, 
banded with dark brown, L}in. long, din. broad, linear, spreading ; 
disk yellow; involucre cylindrical. 7. linear-subulate, armed, 
revolute-margined, rigid, produced in a short, reddish tendril. 
Stem terete, striated, flexuous, wingless. Chilian Andes, 1884. 
(R. G. 1163, f. 2.) 
M. vicizefolia (Vetch-leaved). /.-heads orange, showy ; involucre 
long, cylindrical. J. pinnate, ending in a tendril; leaflets nu- 
merous, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Peru, 1887. A handsome, 
greenhouse climber. 
MYOSOTIS. To the species described on p. 403, 
Vol. II., the following varieties should now be added: 
M. alpestris elegantissima (most elegant). 
free-tlowering variety, having white, rose, and blue flowers. 
(R. H. 1882, p. 20.) 
M. dissitiflora alba (white). 1. pure white, without the 
slightest taint of colour. 1883. 
M. d. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl. double the size of those 
of the type, and produced in great profusion in February. 1886. 
Garden variety. 
sae perfecta (perfect). A very large and finely formed variety. 
1883. 
A pretty, dwarf, 
1883. 
M., sylvatica grandiflora (large-flowered). A variety having 
flowers nearly in. across. 1885. (R. G. 1885, p. 121.) 
MYRIOCARPA (from myrios, myriad, and karpos, 
fruit; alluding to the numerous fruits). Orb. Urticacee. 
A genus embracing six species of stove shrubs or small 
trees, inhabiting tropical America, from Brazil to Mexico. 
Flowers dicecious, rarely moneecious, scattered at the sides 
of the filiform branches of the rachis, the males often 
sessile and densely clustered, the females looser, sessile 
or pedicellate, often very numerous; spikes or racemes 
solitary or somewhat fascicled at the axils or nodes, 
often branched. Leaves alternate, usually ample, petio- 
late, toothed, penniveined and about three-nerved. Two 
species are known in gardens. Where room can be spared, 
they will make a bold and effective appearance. They 
thrive in good, well-drained loam, and may be propagated 
by cuttings of the young wood. 
M. colipensis (Colipa). ., female inflorescence consisting 
of pendulous, forked spikes, 1}ft. to 2ft. long, densely covered 
with small, flask-shaped ovaries. J. 1}ft. to 14ft. long, llin. 
broad, elliptic, acute, rounded at base, crenate on the margins, 
clothed with rigid hairs, adpressedly pubescent beneath ; petioles 
10in. to 12in. long. Mexico, 1887. A shrub or small tree. 
M, stipitata (stalked), l., females more or less clustered; males 
sub-sessile, glomerulate ; primary branches of the inflorescence 
short, the ultimate ones sometimes shorter than the leaves. 
1. ovate- or obovate-elliptic, or rarely elliptic-lanceolate, 4in. to 
Tin. long, shortly acuminate at apex, rounded or obtuse, very 
rarely sub-cordate at base, unequally serrate-denticulate or 
crenulate. Mexico, Venezuela, &c. A shrub or small tree. 
MYRMECODIA (from murmex, murmekos, an ant; 
in allusion to those insects making their habitation in 
the rhizomes). Orb. Rubiacew. A genus of about a score 
species of stove, epiphytal, highly glabrous, “ant-nest- 
ing”’ shrubs, with a smooth or prickly, tuberous rhizome, 
extending from Sumatra and Singapore to New Guinea, 
North Australia, and Solomon’s Archipelago. Flowers 
white, small, sessile, solitary or few; calyx tube ovoid, the 
limb very short, entire; corolla haying a cylindrical or 
sub-urceolate tube, and a four-lobed limb; stamens four. 
Leaves stalked, clustered at the tips of the branchlets, 
Myrmecodia—continued. 
opposite, narrowed to rather long petioles, coriaceous ; 
stipules persistent, ample, bifid; branches short, quad- 
rangular, thick and fleshy. M. Beccarii is in cultivation 
in this country. It requires great heat, and should be 
treated like an epiphytal Orchid. Seedling plants may 
be raised from its fruits. 
M. Beccarii (Beccari’s). _/fl., corolla tube cylindrical, the lobes 
ovate, thick, longer than the tube, February. /r. cylindric- 
oblong, rounded at apex, four-stoned. J. oblanceolate or oblong- 
oblanceolate, sub-acute, fleshy. Tuber not ribbed, lobed, spinu- 
lose ; spines short, simple ; branches thickened-nodose. Tropical 
Australia, 1884. (B. M. 6883.) 
MYSTACIDIUM (from mustax, mustakos, a mous- 
tache, and eidos, resemblance; in allusion to the pointed 
prolongation of the lip). Syn. Aéranthus (of Reichen- 
bach, jun.). Orb. Orchidew. A genus comprising about 
a score species of stove, epiphytal, not pseudo-bulbous 
Orchids, natives of tropical and South Africa. Flowers 
usually small, racemose; sepals and petals nearly equal, 
free, spreading ; lip affixed to the base of the column, 
produced in a long, slender spur, the lateral lobes some- 
times ovate, erect, sometimes nearly obsolete, the middle 
one erect or spreading, often ovate, undivided; pollen 
masses two; racemes axillary, often short. Leaves di- 
stichous, usually few, coriaceous, spreading. Stems 
leafy, rigid. Only one species is known in gardens. 
It thrives either on blocks or in baskets, in a cool house, 
and will succeed under conditions similar to those which 
suit Angrecum faleatum. 
M. filicorne (thread-horned), #1. white, lin. in diameter, numerous; 
sepals, petals, and lip lanceolate, acute ; spur slender, 2in. long 
or more. J. narrow-oblong, 2in. to Sin. long, about fin. broad, 
obtusely two-lobed at apex. Natal, 1887. A pretty, free- 
flowering, Angrzecum-like Orchid, of tufted habit. (G. C. ser. iii., 
vol. ii., p. 135.) 
NZIGELIA. To the species described on p. 408, 
Vol. If., the following hybrid should now be added: 
N. achimenoides (Achimenes-like). . 2in. long, 1jin. broad, 
the tube yellowish-rose outside, yellow dotted rose within, the 
lobes light rose. 1885. A pretty hybrid between NV. zebrina and 
Achimenes gloxiniceflora, with the habit of the former, but the 
flowers hang from the axils of the leaves as in Achimenes. 
NAPOLEONA. To the species described on p. 409, 
Vol. II., the following should now be added: 
N. cuspidata (cuspidate). This differs from the better-known 
NV. imperialis in its larger flowers, which are cream-coloured with 
a crimson centre, regularly five-angled, with straight sides (not 
five-lobed as in NV. imnperialis) ; the leaves are much Jarger, being 
8in. to 10in. long and 4in. to 5in. broad. 1886. (G. C. n.s., xxyv., 
p. 657, f. 147 B.) 
NARCISSUS. To the species and varieties de- 
scribed on pp. 411-20, Vol. II., the following should 
now be added: 
N. cyclamineus (Cyclamen-like). /., perianth lemon-yellow, the 
tube very short, the segments nearly lin. long, strongly reflexed 
from the base ; corona as long as, or longer than, the segments, 
rather deeper in colour, the edge crenate ; scape sub-terete, 6in. 
to 12in. long. Spring. J. two or three, linear, sub-erect, deeply 
channelled. Bulb sin. in diameter. Portugal. (B. M. 6950.) 
N. Johnstoni (Johnston’s), A variety of V. Pseudo-Narcissus. 
N. Jonquilla Burbidgei (Burbidge’s). A variety having the 
corona cut into six segments nearly to the base. Native country 
unknown. 1885. 
N. juncifolio-muticus (hybrid). _//. three, on a slender, terete 
peduncle, the two upper ones ascending, the lower one horizontal ; 
perianth tube greenish-yellow, gin. long, the expanded limb 
bright lemon-yellow, horizontal, 14in. in diameter, the segments 
ovate-oblong, much imbricated ; corona orange-yellow, obconical, 
sin. long. Latter end of April. Jl. narrow-linear, channelled. 
1886. Probably a hybrid between NV. juncifolius and N. Pseudo- 
Narcissus muticus. 
N. poeticus biflorus (two-flowered). /. double, two on each 
scape. 1885. A fine variety. (R. G. 1193.) 
N. Pseudo-Narcissus Johnstoni (Johnston's). 7. pale 
sulphur, remarkable for the long and rather slender corona tube, 
which is about jin. long, and less spreading at the mouth than 
in the common Daffodil. Portugal, 1887. 
N. P.-N. muticus (curtailed). 7. lin. to 14in. dong ; tube obconical 
lin. long and broad; segments sulphur-yellow, lin. to 1din. long ; 
