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FODOTHECA (from pons, podos, a foot, anfl theke, 

 a cell or capsule ; alluding* to the stalk of the fruit). 

 Syns. Lopliorliitunn, Phivnopoday Podosperma. Urd. Cotn- 

 poaittv. A genus comprising five species of glabrous or 

 scabrous-pubescent, erect, hardy, Australian annuals, not 

 woolly, or rarely the involucre very slightly so. Flower- 

 heads yellow, liomogauions, rather large, sometimes very 

 long, on terminal peduncles, usually dilated under the 

 involucre ; involucre cylindrical, conical, or campanulate, 

 with imbricated, herbaceous bracts ; receptacle without 

 scales ; florets tubular, five-toothed. P. (jnaphalioides is 

 a plant of little beauty; it thrives in any ordinary garden 

 soil, and may be readily increased by seeds. 



P, gnaphalioides ((;n;ipli:i]inin-like). jl.-headu onions peduncles ; 

 flurets Vfiy slfmlfi. tuiisiil.-nibly longer than the involucre and 

 pa,ppus. .hnu'. /. linear or l:uu-eol:ite, the hiwer ones narrowed 

 below the middle, all stem-clasping, and sometimes shortly cie- 

 current, k. 1ft. to lift. 1841. (B. M. 3920.) 



FCECIIiIFTERIS. Included under Arwsh'rhum. 



F(EPPIGIA. A synonym of TecophilsBa (which 

 set'). 



FCESIA. Included under Fteris (which see). 



FOETS CASSIA. See Osyris. 



POET'S NARCISSUS. Srr Narcissus poeticus. 



FOGGENDORrriA. Included under Tacsonia 

 (which sfe). 



FOGOGYNE (from pogon, a beard, and f/j/?i.e, a 

 female; referring to the villous style). Ord. L(dmit(e. A 

 small genus (six species) of dwarf or erect, hardy 

 annuals, natives of California. Flowers whorled, collected 

 into dense, leaty spikes ; calyx campanulate, five-toothod ; 

 corolla with a straight, exsorted tube, and a bilabiate limb. 

 Nutlets ovoid, smooth. Leaves linear, entire, or the 

 upper or floral ones slightly conformed, long-ciliated, 

 somewhat toothed. P. DoiKjldsii is the only species in- 

 troduced. Seed should be sown in pots, and the seedlings 

 turned out into the open border. 



P. Douglasii (Doniilas'). //., cf nulla purple or dark violet ; lower 

 calyx ti-etli thrice as loni; us the tube ; bracts linear, acute, almost 

 leaf-like ; spikes oliloji^, 2in. to 3in. long. Aui^u.st. I. petiolate, 

 liii, to lUu. long, oblong, ohtuse, entire, giadually narrowed to 

 tlie base,>labrous. Stem slightly branched, h. 1ft. 1871. (B. M. 

 5886.) 



P. D, multiflora (many-flowered). A smaller form, with lilac 

 corolla, ami nither shorter bracts than the type. 



FOGON. A beard. The word is largely used in 

 Greek compounds, and denotes any collection of long 

 hairs. 



FOGONELLA. A synonym of Simethis {which 

 see). 



FOGONIA (from pogonias, bearded ; referring to the 

 fringed lip of some of the original species). Including 

 Cleistes and Triphora. Ord. Orchidew. A genus com- 

 prising upwards of thirty species of stove, terrestrial 

 orchids, with spherical tubers, broadly dispersed over the 

 globe. Flowers solitary or loosely racemose, having free, 

 conniving, or somewhat ringent sepals and p tals, either 

 all equal or the petals smaller ; a free, erect, undivided 

 or lobed lip, with its disk crested or papillose ; a long, 

 semi-terete, clavate column, eared or winged at the top ; 

 and a sessile or very shortly stalked two celled anther, 

 containing two furrowed pollen masses. Plants either 

 having one or a few sessile leaves upon an erect stem 

 at the period of flowering, or leafless till after flower- 

 ing, and then producing a solitary, stalked leaf from an 

 underground stem. The under-mentioned species thrive 

 in well-drained pots or pans of open, loamy soil, amongst 

 which is intermixed living sphagnum. An abundance 

 of water is required during the sea.sou of growth, but 

 after the leaves die off none must be administered until 

 growth recommences the following season. All do well 



Fo|f onia — confin ued. 

 in a warm, shaded greenhouse, in an airy position near 

 the glass. 



P. discolor (different-coloured). /. in pairs, liin. in diameter ; 

 sepals and petals dirty giey-green, 3in. long, spreading ; lip white, 

 with a green disk, convolute ; scape solitary, 2in. to Sin. long. 

 I. solitary, 3in. to 5iu. in diameter, nearly horizontal, orbicular- 

 cordate ;' np])er surface dark rufous-green, often with paler blue- 

 green bhttches, bristly ; under surface dull purple, less bristly. 

 Java. (IJ. M. 6125.) 



P. Fordii (Ford's).* If. drooping, l^in. from tip of dorsal sepal to 

 that of the lip; -sepals and petals similar, linear-olilaiireolate, 

 acuminate, dirty-yellowish, with three brown nerves ; lip as 

 long as the sepals, glabrous, convolute portion white ; hibes 

 rose-coloured, t. shortly stalked, orbicular, acute, plaited by 

 about twelve strong nerves; upper surface dull brownish-green 

 and purple, sparsely clothed with crystalline, cellular hairs ; 

 under surface rose-coloured. Ilonsi Kong,'1883. SVN. P. pulchella 

 (R M. 6851). 



P. Gammieana (Uanunie's).* /f. six to eight in a raceme ; sepals 

 ami petals [lale lilac, streakeil with pale pink, ^in. to lin. long; 

 lip pale ,i;reen, as long as, or rather longer than, tlie sepals ; scape 

 6in. to 8in. high. May. /. solitary, quite glabrous, 4in. to 6in. 

 long and broad, with a very deep sinus; young ones plaited 

 between the nerves, with a row of very .shallow, broad pits on 

 each fold ; petiole streaked with red-brown. Sikkim, 1847. 

 (B. M. 6671.) 



P, ophiogloSSOides (Ophinglos.^nm-like). Snake's-ninuth Orchis. 

 ft. rose pink, lin. lon^. swei-t-scentrd ; Ii|) spatlnilate below, 

 ap])ressetl to the cohinui, lieard-cresteil anil fvingeil. .June anil 

 .July. Stem 6in. to 9in. high, bearing a single oval or oblong- 

 lauceolate leaf near the middle, and a smaller one or bract near 

 the terminal flower, rarely one or two others with a flower in 

 their axil. North America, 1816. (IJ. II. 148; H. K. F. 70.) 



P. pendUla (pendulous). Three Birds Orchis. J}, pink, drooping, 

 on slender pedicels ; lip spathidate, somewhat three-lobed, 

 idughish nr crisped above, crestless. August. I. three to seven 

 to a stem, alternate, ovate-aniplexicanl. 3in. to 6in. long, the 

 upper one to four bearing flowers in their axils. Stem 3in. to Bin. 

 liigli, from oblong tubers. North America, 1824. (B. R. 908.) 

 Sv.\. Tiij'hoi-a pendiila. 



P. pulchella (pretty). A synonym of P. Fordii. 



P, rosea (rosy), jf., sepals greenish outside, lake-coloure<l inside ; 

 Hoial envelopes li ac, approaching pink; lip with two whitisli, 

 ovate glands at tlie base ; scape teivti- and smooth. August 

 I. lanceolate, acute, steni-claspim;. niarginate, snn)oth, entire. 

 Ii. 3ft. to 5ft. Guayana, 1844. A lieautiful plant. 



FOGONIA (of Andrews). A synonym of Myoporum 



(whicli s>'>']. 



FOGONOFUS (from por/on, a beard, and pofis, a foot ; 

 in allusion to the shape of the flower). Syns. Citnjs- 

 oxiiloUj Hoirardia. Ord. Rubincew. A genus com- 

 prising about five species of stove trees and shrubs, 

 with terete branchlets, natives of tropical America. 

 Flowers pink, showy, pedicellate, disposed in terminal, 

 branched panicles ; calyx five-toothed, deciduous ; corolla 

 with an elongated tube and a limb of five short, valvate 

 lobes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ample, membranous; 

 stipules intrapetiolar, small, deciduous. P. airacasensis 

 (the only species in cultivation) requires culture similar 

 to Musssenda (which see). 



P. caracasensis (Caraccas). //. pink ; calyx teeth triangular, 

 acuminate, tlie lubes foliaceous, ovate; corolla tubular, hairy. 

 Summer. /. ovate or oliovate-clliptic, rather hmg-acuminate, the 

 point very acute, base cuneate, pubescent beneath. Shrub. 

 1855. (B. M. 5110.) Sv.v. Howardiacoracaseusis. 



FOGOSTEMON (from piujon, a beard, and stenwn, 

 a stamen; alluding to the filaments being generally 

 bearded in the middle). Stn. }]'ensea. Ord. L(d)iatce. 

 A gemis comprising about thirty species of stove or 

 greenhouse herbs (or shrubs 'f), natives of the East 

 Indies, the Malayan Archipelago, and Japan. Flowers 

 disposed in many- or rarely few-flowered whorls ; calyx 

 ovoid-tubular, equal, five-toothed, often elongated during 

 fructescence ; corolla tube included or rarely shortly 

 exserted ; limb spreading, cut into four sub-oqual lobes ; 

 bracts usually small. Nutlets ovoid or oblong, smooth. 

 Leaves opposite. The only species now in cultivation 

 are those described below. For culture, .^ee Cole- 

 brookia. 



P, Patchouli (Patchouly). jl whitish, tinged with purple, 

 small, in dense spikes, which are both terminal and axillary. 



