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regions, a few being extra-tropical American. Leaves 
alternate, often ovate, more or less toothed, three- 
to five-nerved or penniveined. To the species, c., 
described on p. 7, Vol. I., the following should be added: 
A. Chantrieri (Chantrier Fréres’), A garden hybrid between 
A. Hamiltonfuna and A. macrophylla. 1897. 
A. Godseffiana (Godseff’s). J. ovate-lanceolate, shining green, 
with creamy-white margins. New Guinea. An ornamental, 
dwarf, bushy shrub. 
A. Hamiltoniana (Hamilton’s). /. bright green, with pro- 
minently rounded, yellow teeth. 1895. 
A. hispida (hispid).* jl. bright red, ‘‘resembling crimson plush,” 
in drooping, tassel-like spikes, 12in. to 20in. long, sometimes 
lin. in diameter, borne on axillary peduncles. ¢. spreading, 
Sin. to S4in. Jong, 3in. to 34in. broad, ovate, acute or shortly 
acuminate, rounded at base and emarginate at the insertion 
of the pubescent petiole, which is 2in. to 2sin. long; upper 
surface bright green and sparsely hairy; lower surface paler. 
h, 10ft. to 15ft. New Guinea, 1896. A beautiful species. See 
Fig. 5. Syn. A. Sanderi. 
A. mortfontanensis (Mortefontaine). A garden hybrid between 
A. Hamiltoniana and A. marginata. 1897. 
A. obovata (obovate). 7. obovate, green with creamy edges 
when young, changing with age to olive-green with pink margins, 
and finally having a bronzy centre and broad rosy-crimson 
margins. Polynesia, 1884. An ornamental foliage plant. 
A. Sanderi (Sander’s). A synonym of A. hispida. 
A. triumphans (triumphant). /. large, cordate, toothed,“acute, 
variegated with deep crimson, green, and brown. Solomon 
Isles, 1888. A good foliage plant; probably a variety of A. 
Wilkesiana. (I. H. xxv., t. 55.) 
A. eremorum, A. illustrata, and A, Makoyana are also occasionally 
seen in gardens 
ACAMPE (from akampes, inflexible; in allusion to 
the very brittle texture of the flowers). Orp. Orchidex. 
A genus embracing about nine species of stove, epiphytal 
Orchids, eight of which are natives of the East Indies 
and Southern China, while the other is found in South- 
east Africa; they are closely allied to Saccolabiwm 
(Hooker, in the “ Flora of British India,” includes them 
under that genus). Flowers much smaller than in Vanda, 
shortly pedicellate; sepals free, sub-equal, somewhat 
fleshy; petals similar but rather narrower; lip sessile at 
the base of the column, continuous, spreading, saccate or 
eonico-spurred at base; column short and _ thick; 
peduncles lateral, rigid, short and simple, or elongated 
and panicled. Leaves distichous, coriaceous. Stem leafy, 
not pseudo-bulbous. For culture of the following species, 
see Saccolabium. 
A. dentata (toothed). . whitish-yellow, blotched with brown, 
din. to 4n. in diameter; panicle longer or shorter than the 
leaves, the branches distant and lax-flowered. J. 7in. to Qin. 
long, lin. to ljin. broad. Stem lft. to 2ft. long. India, 1872. 
A. he on os greens fl. sweet-scented, inconspicuous, 
much like those of A. multiflora, corymbose ; lip white. J. dark 
green, distichous, leathery, 14ft. long, 2in. broad, obliquely 
rounded at apex. India. 
A. madagascariensis (Madagascar). fl. small; sepals and 
* petals whitish; lip rosy-purple. 7. thick and leathery. Mada- 
gascar, 1891. Allied to A. papillosa. 
A. multiflora (many-flowered). jl. yellow, with blood-coloured 
» dots, small; lip ovate, somewhat acute; peduncle branched, 
erect, sub-corymbose, shorter than the leaves. /. lorate, obliquely 
emarginateat apex. China. Syn. Vanda multiflora (L. C. B, 38). 
A. papillosa (papillose). See Saccolabium papillosum. 
A. Wightiana (Wight’s). #7. yellow, barred with crimson, not 
ee: Zin. to lin. across; scape very stout; bracts very 
roadly ovate, acute. J. 4in. to 6in. long, Zin. to lin. broad. 
Stem lft. to lift. long. India. 
ACANTHEPHIPPIUM. See Acanthophippium. 
ACANTHODIUM. Included under Blepharis 
(which see). 
ACANTHOGLOSSUM. A synonym of Celogyne 
(which see). 
ACANTHOLIMON. Prickly Thrift. Syn. Arme- 
riastrum. ORD. Plumbaginex. Eighty-four species have 
been described, but, according to Bentham and Hooker, 
some of them are mere varieties; they are natives of the 
Orient, extending from Greece and Syria to Western 
Thibet, and being most plentiful in Persia. These plants 
may also be increased by layering the shoots in late 
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summer. To those described on p. 
following should be added : 
A. androsaceum (Androsace-like). j., corolla of an intense 
purple, with an mple limb; spike very short, fasciculate- 
distichous, or sub-second, with three to seven spikelets; scape 
searcely any or almost equalling the leaves. July. J. short. 
Branches short and densely spiny. h. 6in. Southern Europe, 
18135. Syn. Statice echinus (S. F. G. 300). 
A. melananthum (dark-flowered). jl. in a very short spike of 
six to nine spikelets; calyx limb bordered with dark violet or 
black. J7., lower ones very short, flat, triangular-lanceolate, 
mucronate ; the rest spiny, short. Branches short. Persia. 
ACANTHOMINTHA (from akanthos, a spine, in 
allusion to the spiny-toothed bracts, and Mentha, Mint, as 
the plant was formerly included under Calamintha). Orv. 
Labiate. Amonotypic genus. The species is a small, gla- 
brous, half-hardy annual, requiring ordinary cultivation. 
A. ilicifolia (Holly-leaved). jl. three to eight in a whorl in all 
the upper axils ; whorls subtended by opposite bracts, which are 
larger than the leaves and spiny-toothed ; calyx tubular, bilabiate ; 
corolla jin. long, the upper lip white, small, the lower one 
purple, with a yellow throat, four-lobed. July. J. petiolate, sin. 
to lin. long, rounded or ovate, with a cuneate base, coarsely and 
bluntly toothed. Branches ascending, 6in. to 8in. long. Cali- 
fornia, 1883. (B. M. 6750.) 
ACANTHONEMA (from akanthos, a spine, and nema, 
a filament; in allusion to the filaments of the two inferior 
stamens being produced into a spine-like process just below 
the anther). Orb. Gesneracex. A monotypic genus. The 
species is a stove perennial, much resembling Streptocarpus 
in habit. It thrives in a compost of sandy loam and peat, 
the former predominating, and may be increased by secds. 
A. strigosum Cagney jl. whitish, sin. to Zin. long, with a 
blood-purple, five-lobed limb; panicles lin. to 2in. high, sessile 
on the midrib at the base of the leaf. June to August. J. 
radical, solitary, 4in. to 9in. long, spreading on the ground, 
linear-oblong, cordate at base, shortly i a recurved at aaa 
strigose with scattered hairs. Tropical Africa, 1862. (B. M. 5539.) 
ACANTHOPANAX (from akanthos, a spine, and 
Panaz; alluding to the spiny stems and Panax-like aspect 
of theplants). Onrp. Araliacew. A genus embracing about 
eight species of stove or greenhouse, glabrous or tomentose 
shrubs (rarely trees ?), natives of Japan, China, and 
tropical Asia. Flowers polygamous or hermaphrodite ; 
petals five, rarely four, valvate; stamens five, rarely four, 
the filaments filiform; pedicels continuous with the 
flowers; bracts small or wanting; umbellets paniculate or 
almost solitary. Leaves palmately cleft, digitate, or one- 
foliolate. Only two species call for mention here : 
A. ricinifolium (Ricinus-leaved). The correct name of the plant 
described on p. 104, Vol. L., as Aralia Maximowiczii. 
A. spinosum (spiny). The correct name of Aralia pentaphylla. 
ACANTHOPHIPPIUM. About half-a-dozen species, 
natives of India, the Malayan Archipelago, &c., are included 
in this genus. To those described on p. 8, Vol. I., the 
following should be added : 
A. Curtisii albidum (whitish). #1. creamy-white, with rose and 
purple dots on the inner surface, thick and fleshy ; lateral sepals 
joining to form a large, pouch-like organ. 1898, (L., t. 619.) 
A. eburneum (ivory-white). jl. white, nearly 2in. long; scape 
two-flowered. J. oblong-lanceolate, plicate, 8in. long, 2in. broad. 
Pseudo-bulbs purplish, angular, 2in. to 3in. long. Malaya (’), 
1896. Allied to A. Curtisii. 
A. Mantinianum (Mantin’s). ., sepals yellow, slightly shaded 
with green, spotted and blotched with purple; petals resembling 
the sepals, but having the lower portion whiter; lip of a waxy 
white, the thickened part of the disk orange-yellow with ridges 
spotted and lined wit! purple Philippines, 1896. A near ally 
of A. bicolor, from which it mainly differs in the colour of its 
flowers and its much more robust habit. (L. 1896, t. 536.) 
A. striatum (striated). . White, streaked with red; lip with 
a single, median, crested ridge and thickened lateral curves, 
the side lobes very broad, falcate, obtuse, the mid-lobe scarlet, 
contracted, acute. Spring. Nepaul. Allied to A. sylhetense, 
but the flowers are much shorter. 
ACANTHOPHGENIX. Prickly Date'Palm. Three 
or four species, all natives of the Mascarene Islands, 
are included in this genus. Flowers red or yellow, mone- 
cious on the same spadix, borne under the leaves; spadix 
doubly branched, pendulous; spathes two, deciduous ; 
bracts rather prominent, thick and rigid. Fruit black, 
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