4 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Acacallis—continued. 
large auricles of the column. According to Messrs. Veitch, 
it requires to be grown in the highest temperature available 
in our Orchid-houses. On account of its climbing habit, it 
should be affixed to a block or raft; in other respects it 
will thrive under the ordinary! East Indian house treatment. 
A. cyanea (blue). The correct name of Aganisia cerulea 
(W. O. A. viti. 374). . 
ACACIA. Including Farnesia. In the “Genera 
Plantarum’’ about 420 species are allotted to this genus ; 
they are dispersed over the warmer parts of the world, 
but are especially plentiful in Australia and in Africa. 
Sepals five, four, or three, free or united; petals as many, 
free or united; stamens indefinite, usually very numerous, 
free or slightly connected at the very base. Pods linear or 
oblong, flat or nearly cylindrical, straight, falcate, or 
variously twisted, opening in two valves or indehiscent. 
Leaves bipinnate; leaflets often small and many-jugate, 
or reduced to a filiform petiole (phyllode). To the species 
described on pp. 5-7, Vol. I., the following should be 
added. The hardy deciduous tree called Acacia in gardens 
is Robinia Pseudacacia. See also Albizzia. 
A. Baileyana (Bailey's). /l. in small, globose heads, arranged 
in erect, loose racemes. Winter. jr., pods long, linear-oblong. 
Z. stalked, bipinnate; pinne consisting of small, linear leaflets. 
New South Wales and Queensland. (G. C. 1894, xv., p. 37, f. 4.) 
A. coccinea (scarlet). A garden synonym of Ormosia coccinea, 
A. cordata (heart-shaped). A garden synonym of A. hastulata. 
A. cornigera (horn-bearing). A synonym of A. spadicigera. 
A. floribunda (abundant-flowered), of Willdenow. A synonym 
of A. angustifolia. 
A. floribunda, of gardens. A synonym of A. retinodes. 
A. hastulata (somewhat hastate).* jl., peduncles short and 
slender, each bearing a head of three to five flowers, mostly 
four-parted. May. J., phyllodia numerous, hastate-lanceolate 
or almost cordate, tapering into pungent points, two or three 
lines long, with one central nerve. Branches rather slender, 
virgate or divaricate, terete. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Western Australia, 
1824. (B. M. 3341.) Syn. A. cordata (of gardens). 
A. Lebbek (Lebbek). The correct name is now Albizzia Lebbek. 
A. leprosa (leprous).* jl. numerous in a globular head, mostly 
five-parted ; petals yellow, united to the middle. May. JU., phyl- 
lodia narrow, linear-lanceolate, acute, or obtuse with a small 
oint, narrowed at base, lsin, to 3in. aBOE Branchlets pendu- 
ous, more or less glutinous. Australia, 1817. A tall shrub or 
small tree. (B. R. 1441.) wf 
A. lineata (lined). 7. ten to fifteen or more 
ina small, globular head, mostly five-parted ; 
etals yellow, smooth. April. J/.,.phyllodia 
Tear, with a small, hooked point, usually 
din. to in. long. Branches pubescent or 
villous, sometimes slightly resinous. h. 6ft. 
Australia, 1824. .(B. M. 3546.) 
A. Nemu (Nemu). A synonym of Albizzia 
Julibrissin. 
A. obliqua (oblique). A 
A. rotundifolia. 
A. petiolaris (petiolate). 
A, pycnantha. 
A. pyenantha (dense-flowered). jl. mostly 
five-parted ; racemes short, with a few dense, 
globular heads of fifty to one hundred 
flowers. JU., phyllodia lanceolate-falcate, 
obtuse or rather acute, much narrowed to 
the base, 3in. to 6in. long. Victoria. A small 
or medium tree. SYN. A. petiolaris. 
A. retinodes (retained). /l. mostly five- 
parted; racemes much shorter than the 
phyllodia, branched, with several (sometimes 
twenty) globular heads of twelve to twenty 
flowers. March. JU., phyllodia linear-lanceo- 
late, faleate, much narrowed towards the 
base, mostly 3in. to Sin. long, finely penni- 
veined. Victoria. A moderate-sized tree. 
Syn. A. floribunda (of gardens). 
A. spadicigera (spadix-bearing). fl. greyish 
and yellowish, forming cylindrical, spadix- 
like heads lin. or more in length, disposed 
in axillary clusters. J/. bipinnate ; pinnz four 
to eight pairs; leaflets fifteen to twenty 
airs, linear-oblong, obtuse. Spines large, 
orn-like. Central America and Cuba, 1692. 
One of the so-called Bull’s-horn Acacias ; its 
hollow spines are tenanted by stinging ants. 
(B. M. 7595.) SyN. A. cornigera. Fic 
synonym of 
A synonym of 
ACZENA. New Zealand Bur. Syn. Ancistrum. This 
genus includes about thirty species of decumbent or some- 
what creeping herbs, often shrubby at the base, the floriferous 
branches often erect and scape-like; they are distributed 
over the temperate and frigid parts of the Southern Hemi- 
sphere, being often found in Chili and Peru. To their value 
as rock-plants must be added their utility for growing under 
trees—and trees, too, like Conifers, beneath which scarcely 
anything will survive. The species A. microphylla, A. myrio- 
phylla, and A. pulchella may all be so utilised. To those 
described on p. 7, Vol. I., the following should be added: 
A. adscendens (ascending). ji. dark purple; heads globose, 
borne on long peduncles. J., leaflets jin. to lin. long, obovate or 
elliptic-obovate, obtuse, toothed, glabrous aboye, silky beneath. 
Stems long-creeping, with ascending branches. Patagonia, 1888. 
A. cuneata (wedge-shaped). A synonym of A. sericea. 
A. ovina (egg-like). /l. purple, in long, interrupted spikes, denser 
towards the end. ¢. rather long; leaflets elliptic obtuse, 
pinnately cut to the middle, more or less pubescent on both 
sides or glabrous above. Australia, 1888. his is similar to 
A, ovalifolia, but it is a little larger and less graceful. 
A. pinnatifida (pinnately-cleft). . crowded into cylindrical 
spikes, the lower ones rather remote. May and June. J. con- 
sisting of three to five pairs of deeply three- to five- parted 
leaflets; segments linear. Stem erect. A. 6in. Chili and 
Magellan Straits, 1822. Half-hardy perennial. (B. R. 1271.) 
A. repens (creeping). A synonym of A. sarmentosa. 
A. Sanguisorb (Sanguisorba-like). fl. in globose heads, 4in. 
to sin. in diameter; scapes slender, two-leaved. J/. 2in. to 6in. 
long ; leaflets eight to ten pairs, very variable in shape, mem- 
branous, coarsely serrated, fin. to Zin. long. New Zealand. A 
much-branched, prostrate herb, more or less silky, especially on 
the nerves beneath. 
A. sarmentosa (having runners). jl. in globose heads, on 
tomentose peduncles of moderate length, with one or two 
bracts. Tristan d’Acunha, 1888. A rampant species, similar to 
A. Sanguisorbe, but stouter, with longer branches, leaves more 
silky beneath and longer hairs. ‘‘ Perhaps the plant in cultiva- 
tion is not correctly named, as it is said to come from South 
America” (N. E. Brown). 
A. sericea (silky).* jl. green, in globose heads, on long 
peduncles, which also bear two or three smaller heads, sessile 
in the axils of leafy bracts. /. rather long; leaflets only three 
to five pairs, cuneate-oblong, toothed, silky beneath. Patagonia 
and Chili, 1888. Syn. A. cuncata. 
A. splendens (splendid). /l. in long, interrupted spikes, borne on 
long, stout peduncles. /., leaflets three or four pairs, obovate or ob 
lanceolate, toothed, densely white-silky on both sides. Chili, 1888 
ACALYPHA. Syn. Cupameni. This genus com- 
prises about 220 species, broadly dispersed over the warm 
5. PORTION OF INFLORESCENCE OF ACALYPHA HISPIDA 
