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ADAMIA. The three plants described under this 
name are all referred by Bentham and Hooker to one 
species, forming the genus Dichroa (which see). 
ADAM’S FLANNEL. See Verbascum Thapsus. 
ADANSONIA. Syn. Ophelus. Two species form 
this genus; both are stove trees, with dwarf trunks of 
enormons girth. Flowers white, large, pendulous; calyx 
ovoid or oblong, deeply five-cleft; petals five, obovate or 
oblong; peduncles axillary, one-flowered. Fruit oblong, 
woody, indehiscent, containing mealy pulp (Monkey Bread). 
Leaves digitate ; leaflets three to nine, entire. 
ADDER’S VIOLET. Sce Goodyera pubescens. 
ADELASTER ALBIVENIS. The plant exhibited 
and described under this name (Proc. R. Hort. Soc., 
1861, p. 568; I. H. t. 320) is probably some kind of 
Branthemum. 
ADELGES ABIETIS. See Spruce-Gall Aphis. 
ADELIA (from a, not, and delos, visible ; in allusion 
to the minute parts of the fructification). Syn. Reicinella. 
Orv. Euphorbiacew. A genus embracing about seven 
species of stove shrubs, natives of the West Indies and 
Central America. Flowers small, dimcious, apetalous. 
Leaves alternate or crowded at the nodes, entire, shortly 
petiolate. A few of the species have been introduced, 
but they are of no particular horticultural value. 
ADELMANNIA. A synonym of Borrichia (which 
see). 
ADELOBOTRYS. Syn. Truncaria. Hight species, 
natives of Mexico, Colombia, North Brazil, Guiana, and 
Jamaica, have been referred to this genus. 
ADENANDRA. Syn. Glandulifolia. Of this genus 
there are upwards of twenty-one species. Several of them 
were formerly classed under Diosma; e.g., A. fragrans 
(B. M. 1519), A. wmbellata speciosa (B. M. 1271), and A. 
uniflora (B. M. 273). 
A. linearis is a variety of A. uniflora. 
ADENANTHERA. Syn. Stachychryswm. Three or 
four species, natives of tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, 
are included in this genus, one being broadly cultivated in 
the warmer regions of the globe. 
ADENEMA. A synonym of Enicostema (which 
see). 
ADENILEMA. A synonym of Neillia (which see). 
ADENOCARPUS. About eight species, natives of 
South and South-west Europe, tropical and North Africa, 
and the Canary Islands, are included in this genus; 
several of them were formerly classed under Cytisus. To 
those described on p. 23, Vol. I., the following should be 
added : 
A. Anagyrus (Anagyris). A synonym of A. frankenioides. 
A. decorticans (barkless).* 1. bright yellow, Pea-like, in short, 
compact racemes. May. JZ. densely set, two or three-foliolate ; 
leaflets linear, soft, dark green. Spain, 1883. A beautiful, 
half-hardy, evergreen shrub, having the general aspect of 
Furze. (G. C. n. s., xxv., p. 725; Gn., 1886, p. 572; R. H. 1883, 
p. 156 ) ; 
ADENOCREPIS. A synonym of Baccaurea (which 
see). 
ADENOPHORA. Syn. Floerkia (of Sprengel). 
Gland Bellflower. This genus embraces about ten distinct 
species, natives of temperate Asia and Western Europe. 
A. coronata (crowned). A synonym of A. intermedia. 
A. Potanini (Potanini’s). 1. pale blue, bell-shaped, in elegant, 
slender spikes. h. 24ft. Shrubby. 
ADENOPODIA. A synonym of Entada (which see). 
ADENOSMA (from aden, a gland, and osme, smell; 
alluding to the glands in most of the species which exhale 
a Mint-like odour). Syns. Anisanthera (of Griffith), 
Pterostigma. ORv. Scrophularinee. A genus embracing 
Adenosma—continwed. 
about seven species of stove, glandular-pubescent or 
villous herbs, often aromatic, natives of the East Indies, 
Eastern Asia, the Malayan Archipelago, and Australia. 
Flowers blue, on very short pedicels; calyx five-parted ; 
corolla tube cylindrical, the posterior lip erect, entire or 
emarginate, the anterior one spreading, entire or three- 
lobed; stamens four, included. Leaves opposite, wrinkled, 
crenulate. Only one species is known to cultivation. Tt 
thrives in a compost of sand and peat, and may be 
increased by seeds or by divisions. 
P. grandiflorum (large-flowered). fl. violet, the lower ones 
axillary, the upper ones racemose ; calyx 4in. long; corolla lin. 
long ; pedicels shorter or longer than the calyx. J. petiolate, 
ovate, lsin. to 2in. long, or the lower ones larger. A. 1ft. to 
Ce) China, 1845. Syn. Pterostigma grandiflorwm (B. R. 1846, 
ADENOSTEMMA (from aden, a gland, and stemma, 
a crown; in reference to the fruit being crowned by 
glandular awns). Syn. Lavenia. Orp. Composite. A 
genus comprising not more than five distinct species, 
mostly natives of the warmer parts of America, one 
being broadly dispersed over the globe. Flower-heads 
white, mediocre or small, homogamous, loosely corymbose, 
paniculate; florets tubular. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 
toothed or almost entire. A. viscosum (B. M. 2410. 
under name of Ageratum strictum) has been introduced, 
but is probably lost to cultivation. 
ADENOSTYLES (from aden, a gland, and stylus, 
a style; in allusion to the long stigmas being covered 
with warty glands). Orp. Composite. A genus em- 
bracing three or four species of tall, hardy, perennial 
herbs, natives of Central and Southern Europe. Flower- 
heads homogamous, mediocre or rather large, disposed in 
an ample, corymbose panicle; florets purplish or whitish, 
rather long-exserted; involucre cylindrical-campanulate ; 
receptacle flat, naked. Leaves alternate or radical, long- 
petiolate, often broad; petioles often dilated into stipule- 
like auricles at the base. Three species are in cultivation. 
They thrive in any fairly good soil, and may be increased 
by seeds or by divisions. ; 
A. albifrons (white-leaved).* /l.-heads composed of three to six 
florets; involucre glabrous; corymb « fastigiate. July and 
August. ¢. reniform-cordate, coarsely and unequally duplicate- 
toothed,-somewhat tomentose beneath. Woody mountains. 
A. alpina (alpine). j.-heads composed of three to six florets. 
7. glabrous underneath, or hairy on the nerves; petioles rarely 
auricled. 
A. leucophylla (white-leaved). /.-heads in a compact 
corymb ; florets ten to twenty on a head. /. white, tomentose 
on both sides. High Alps. . 
ADENOSTYLIS (of 
Zeuxina (which see). 
ADENOTRICHIA. Included under Senecio, A. 
amplexicaulis ‘being now, known as S. Adenotrichia . 
(which see). 
ADESMIA. About 110 species have been referred 
to this genus, but scarcely more than eighty are entitled 
to rank as such. To those described on p. 24, Vol. L., the 
following should be added: 
Blume). A synonym of 
A. balsamica (balsamic). jl. golden-yellow, 4in. in diameter ; 
racemes terminal, effuse, three- to eight-flowered. March. J. lin. 
to lsin. long, shortly petiolate, pinnate ; leaflets ten to thirteen 
pairs, 4m. to din. long, sessile, dark green, oblong or cuneately 
obovate. Branches very slender, leafy. Chili, 1887. A nearly 
glabrous, excessively-branched shrub, covered with balsamic 
glands. (B. M. 6921.) “ 
ADHATODA. Syn. Duwvernoia. This genus embraces 
half-a-dozen species, natives of India, Africa, and South 
America. Flowers whitish or purple; calyx five-cleft ; 
corolla having a short tube and a long bilabiate limb ; 
stamens two; bracts and bracteoles spreading, often 
much exceeding the calyx. -Leaves entire. See also 
Justicia, under which are now classed several species 
that were formerly included under Adhatoda. 
