44 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Ampelovitis—continued. 
A. intermedia (intermediate). J. large, coriaceous, varying 
from cordate and entire to palmately five-lobed; petioles, as 
well as the stems, beset with stout bristles, 1891. Hardy. 
A. Romaneti (Romanet’s). A synonym of Vitis Romaneti. 
AMPELYGONUM. Included under Polygonum 
(which see). 
AMPHEREPHIS. A synonym of Centratherum 
(which see). 
AMPHIBESIS. 
(which see). 
AMPHIBLEMMA (from amphi, both, and blemma, 
the eye; in allusion to the ambiguous character of the 
flowers). Orp. Melastomaceez. A small genus (three 
species) of stove herbs or small shrubs, natives of 
Western tropical Africa. Flowers pink, in simple or 
branched cymes; calyx-limb dilated, five-toothed; petals 
five; stamens ten, very unequal. Leaves petiolate, mem- 
branous, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrulated, 
five-nerved. Only one species calls for mention here. 
For culture, see Melastoma. 
A. cymosum (cymose). The correct name of Melastoma corym- 
bosum. 
AMPHICARPZA. Syn. Cryptolobus (in part). This 
genus embraces about seven species, natives of North 
America, Japan, and the Himalayas. 
AMPHICOSMIA. Included under Hemitelia (which 
A synonym of Centratherum 
see). 
AMPHIDONAX. A synonym of Arundo (which 
see). 
AMPHIGLOTTIS. Included under Epidendrum 
(which see). 
AMPHILOBIUM. See Amphilophium. 
AMPHISCOPIA. The species formerly classed 
under this name are now referred to Dianthera and 
Justicia (which see). A. Pohliana is a synonym of 
D. Pohliana. 
AMPHITHALEA (from amphithales, flowering 
round the branch). Syn. Ingenhoussia. Orv. Legu- 
minose. A genus embracing nine species of small, 
Heath-like, greenhouse shrubs, confined to South Africa. 
Flowers purple or rosy, with the keel darkly tinted, 
axillary and sub-sessile or crowded in a leafy spike; 
calyx almost equally five-cleft; standard reflexed; wings 
oblong. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, sessile, ex- 
stipulate. A. ericefolia is the only species that has 
been introduced, and it is doubtful if that is still in 
cultivation. 
AMPHODUS. Included under Kennedya. A. ovatus 
(B. R. 1101) is synonymous with K. rubicunda (which 
see). 
AMYGDALEZ. Included under Rosacee (which 
see). 
AMYGDALOPSIS. Included under Prunus, the 
correct name of A. Lindleyi being P. triloba (which 
see). 
AMYGDALUS. Now included under Prunus. See 
also Persica. <A. Persica and Persica vulgaris are 
synonyms of Prunus Persica. 
AMYRIS ELEMIFERA. A 
Plumieri. 
ANABASIS AMMODENDRON. A synonym of 
Haloxylon Ammodendron (which see). 
ANACAMPSEROS. This genus includes about nine 
species. 
A. arachnoides grandiflora (large-flowered). The correct 
name of A. rufescens. 
A. rubens is a variety of A. arachnoides. 
A. Telephiastrum is the correct name of A. varians. Syn. 
A, rotundifolia (L. B. C. 591). 
synonym of A. 
ANACARDIUM. Syns. Acajuba, Cassuviwm. This 
genus includes about half-a-dozen species, natives of tropical 
America. 
A. longifolium (long-leaved). 
Anacardium. 
ANACHARIS. A synonym of Elodea (which see). 
ANACYCLUS (changed from Ananthocyclus, com- 
pounded of a, privative, anthos, a flower, and kyklos, a 
circle; with reference to the circle of ovaries which 
surrounds the disk.) Orp. Composite. A genus embracing 
about ten species of hardy or half-hardy, annual herbs (or 
with a perennial caudex), inhabiting South Europe, 
North Africa, and the Orient. Flower-heads radiate, 
mediocre, pedunculate at the tips of the branches; in- 
volucre hemispherical or broadly campanulate, the bracts 
in few series; receptacle convex or conical; ray florets 
white, yellow, or purplish, in one series, fertile or sterile, 
sometimes deficient; disk yellow, fertile; achenes obovate, 
glabrous, the outer ones two-winged. Leaves alternate, 
twice or thrice pinnatisect. A. radiatus purpurascens, 
the only plant of the genus in general cultivation, is a 
very attractive and floriferous, hardy annual, thriving 
under ordinary treatment. 
A. radiatus purpurascens (rayed, purplish). l.-heads large; 
ray florets white or yellow above, the under-side purplish. 
Summer. J. bipinnatifid, with small, linear segments. 1883. 
(R. G. 1074.) Syn. Anthemis purpurascens, 
ANAGALLIS. This genus embraces abont a dozen 
species, inhabiting Europe, North and South Africa, 
West Asia, and extra-tropical South Africa, one being 
scattered over nearly all warm and temperate regions; two 
are indigenous in Britain. To the species and varieties 
described on pp. 68-9, Vol. I., the following should be 
added : 
A. collina (hill-loving). jl. vermilion, purplish at base ; corolla 
large, with rounded-ovate, argutely crenulate lobes; peduncles 
axillary, longer than the leaves. August. J. spreading, amplexi- 
caul, entire ; lower ones opposite, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
often reflexed ; upper ones lanceolate, acute. Stem shrubby at 
base, ascending. South-west Europe and North Africa, 1803. 
Nearly allied to 4. linifolia. Syns. A. grandiflora (A. B. R. 
367), A. fruticosa, A. Wilmoreana (B. M. 3320). 
A. ce. alba (white). jl. white, yellow in the centre, abundantly 
produced. April to June. 7. small, lanceolate. Stems short, 
erect, crowded, densely set with leaves. 1883. A charming 
little plant. (R. G. 1125.) 
A. fruticosa is a synonym of A. collina. 
A. grandiflora is a synonym of A. collina. 
A. latifolia (broad-leaved). The correct name of A. indica. 
(S. B. F. G. 132.) 
ANAMENTA. A synonym of Knowltonia (which 
see). ’ 
ANANAS. According to J. G. Baker, in his mono- 
graph of the Bromeliacex, this genus embraces only three 
species, natives of tropical America. Sepals ovate, acute, 
free to the top of the ovary; petals violet or purplish, 
lingulate, free, much longer than the sepals; stamens 
much shorter than the petals; peduncle central, its leaves 
spine-edged. Fruits fleshy, connate with the bracts into 
a large, ovoid or sub-globose syncarpium, which is often 
proliferous from the base (the plants can be propagated 
from the buds thus produced). Two of the descriptions 
given on p. 69, Vol. I., are here amplified. 
A. bracteatus (prominently bracteate). jl., petals violet; in- 
florescence a dense, oblong strobilus 4in. to 6in. long; bracts 
bright red; peduncle lft. to 2ft. long, its leaves bright red. 
April. _jr., syncarpium ovoid, yellow when ripe, with a large 
tuft. J. thirty to fifty in a rosette, ensiform, 4ft. to 5ft. long. 
Brazil (introduced from Portugal in 1820). (B. M. 5025; B. R. 
1081.) Syn. Ananassa bracteata. 
A. crocophylla (Saffron-leaved). 
crocophylla. 
A. macrodontes. The correct name of the plant described as 
A, macrodonta. (B. H. 1878, p. 140, tt. 4, 5.) 
A. Mensdorfianus (Mensdorf’s). A synonym of Achmea 
Fernande, 
A. sativus (cultivated). Pine-apple. #. about lin. long; in- 
florescence an ovoid cone 3in. to 6in. Jong; peduncle stiffly erect, 
din. to lin. long. April. jr., syncarpium ovoid, 6in. to 12in, 
A synonym of Semecarpus 
A synonym of Achmea 
