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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
ELZIS. Syn. Alfonsia. Three or four species, natives 
of tropical Eastern America and Africa, form this genus, 
which is closely allied to Martinezia. Flowers, males and 
females borne on different spadices, which are short and 
thick. Leaf segments ensiform, acuminate, recurved at 
base ; petioles short and thick, the margins spiny or un- 
armed. 
ELZOCARPUS. Aceratium (kept distinct on p. 11, 
Vol. I.) is included hereunder by the authors of the 
“Genera Plantarum,’ the genus as thus constituted 
embracing upwards of fifty species, natives of tropical 
Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Australia. To those described 
on p. 506, Vol. I., the following shonld be added : 
E. dentatus (toothed). jl. straw-coloured; petals trilobed ; 
raceme axillary, simple. l. alternate, petiolate, oblong, 
attenuated at base, coriaceous, silky beneath. New Zealand, 
1883. Syn. HE. Hinau. 
E. Hinau (native name). A synonym of ZF. dentatus. 
E. oppositifolius (opposite-leaved). The correct name of 
Aceratium oppositifolium. 
ELEODENDRON. Colpoon-tree. Including Ru- 
bentia. To the information given on p. 506, Vol. I., the 
following should be added: 
E. Argan (Argan). A synonym of Argania Sideroxylon. 
E. capense is commonly known as the Cape Phillyrea. 
E. orientale (Eastern). The correct name of Aralia 
Chabrierii. 
E. sphzerophyllum pubescens (spherical-leaved, pubescent). 
ji. small, in dense, axillary cymes. J. closely set, elliptic, obtuse 
or slightly emarginate at apex, rounded or slightly cordate at 
base, Zin. to 1sin. long, finely toothed, the under-side (as well as 
the petioles and shoots) velyety-pubescent. Cape Colony, 1891. 
A branching, leafy, greenhouse shrub. SYN. Guevina avellana 
(of Italian gardens). 
ELATE. A synonym of Phenix (which see). 
ELATERIDZE. See Spring-Beetles. 
ELATERIOPSIS. A synonym of Cyclanthera 
(which see). 
ELATINEZ. A small natural order (about a score 
species, in two genera) of aquatic, creeping or diffuse herbs 
or under-shrubs, broadly dispersed, and ranking between 
Tamariscinex and Hypericinee. The species are of no 
horticultural value. 
ELECTROSPERMA. A synonym of Eriocaulon 
(which vee). 
ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH. Sce Sphingide. 
ELEPHANT’S HEDGE BEAN-TREE. Se 
Schomburgkia latifolia. 
ELEPHANTUSIA. A synonym of Phytelephas 
(which see). 
ELETTARIA. Syn. Cardamomumn. According to 
the ‘‘ Index Kewensis,’’ this genus now embraces upwards 
of a dozen species. Flowers shortly pedicellate, bracteate ; 
lip oboyate-cuneate ; panicle produced direct from the root- 
stock, long, flexnous, decumbent: bracts two- or three- 
flowered. 
ELEUTHERINE (from eleutheros, free ; in allusion 
to the free filaments). Syns. Galatea, Keitia. Orv. 
Tridez. A monotypic genus. The species is a_ pretty, 
stove, bulbous plant. For culture, see Ixia. 
E,. anomala (anomalous). A synonym of £. plicata. 
E. plicata (folded). 1. borne in several peduncled clusters, sub- 
tended at the base by a reduced, plicate, linear leaf ; perianth 
white, fugitive, fin. across, without any tube above the ovary; 
stamens attached to the base of the segments; filaments short, 
free; peduncle 6in. to 12in. long. April. JZ. o1 or two, linear, 
plicate, lft. to 15ft. long. Tropical America. Syns. £. anomala 
(B. R. 1843, 57), Keitia natalensis, Marica plicata (B. M. 655), 
Sisyrinchium palmifolium. 
ELICHRYSUM PROLIFERUM. A synonym of 
Phenocoma prolifera (which see). 
ELISENA. Syns. Liriope and Liriopsis. The species 
are natives of the Andes. Flowers white, few in an umbel ; 
perianth tube short, broadly funnel-shaped, the segments 
long, equal, linear; stamens as long as the segments; 
peduncle long, solid. Leaves lorate. Bulb tunicated. 
ELISMA NATANS. The correct name of the plant 
described on p. 47, Vol. I, as Alisma natans (which see). 
ELK NUT. See Pyrularia oleifera. 
; 
ELK’S-HORN FERN. See Platycerium. 
ELLEANTHUS. Flowers in terminal spikes; sepals 
free, erect; petals often narrower than the sepals ; colamn 
erect, semi-terete or two-winged in the middle. Leayes 
sessile, plicate. 
ELODEA. Anacharis, 
Synonymous with this genus. 
ELODEA (of Spach). 
(which see). 
ELSHOLTZIA (named in honour of Johann §. 
Elsholtz, author of ‘‘Flora Marchica,’’ 1663, &c.). 
Including Aphanochilus. Orv. Labiate. A genus 
embracing about a score species of stove, greenhouse, 
or hardy herbs or shrubs, with small flowers, natives of 
temperate and tropical Asia, one being European. One 
or two of the species—e.g., E. blanda (Syn. Aphanochilus 
blandus, B. M. 3091)—haye been introduced, but they have 
little horticultural value. 
kh ees A synonym of Pterisanthes (which 
see). 
EMBELIA. Syn. Samara (of Linneus). About sixty 
species, found in the tropies of the Old World, are com- 
prised in this genus. 
Apalanthe, and Egeria are 
Included under Hypericum 
i cae Included under Phyllanthus (which 
see). 
EMBOTHRIA. This genus is closely allied to 
Lomatia. Flowers twin, pedicellate, racemose, hermaphro- 
dite; raceme axillary or terminal. Leaves alternate or 
rarely opposite, undivided or dissected. 
EMERICIA. A synonym of Vallaris (which see). 
EMILIA (probably a commemorative name). ORD. 
Conposite. A small genus (four or five species) of stove, 
greenhouse, or half-hardy, annual or perennial herbs, often 
glaucous, glabrous or hairy, natives of India and tropical 
Africa. Flower-heads yellow or red, long-peduncled, 
solitary or loosely corymbose, homogamous, discoid ; florets 
five-toothed ; involuere cylindrical, the bracts equal, in one 
series; pappus white. Radical leaves crowded, petiolate, 
entire, toothed, or lyrate-pinnatifid ; canline ones few, am- 
plexicaul. EH. flammea and E. sonchifolia, the only species 
calling for description here, are half-hardy annuals, 
thriving in ordinary soil. Propagated by seeds, sown in 
heat in early spring, or in the open later. 
E. flammea (flame-coloured). /l.-heads scarlet, much longer 
than the involucral bracts. J., lower ones petiolate, obovate or 
almost spathulate, entire or toothed; upper ones large, oblong 
or ovate-oblong, deeply sagittate-eared. India and the Philip- 
pines. Plant erect ; commonly cultivated in India. Syn. Cacalia 
coccinea (B. M. 564). 
E. sonchifolia (Sonchus-leaved). Scarlet Cacalia. .-heads 
purple ; florets about equalling the involucral bracts. 7., lower 
ones lyrate-pinnatifid or sinuate-toothed, puberulous or glabrous. 
Flowering branches leafy. India and Africa. Plant erect or 
diffuse. Syn. Cacalia sonchifolia. 
EMMENANTHE. Calyx segments ten to twelve, 
unequal; corolla broadly tubnlar-campanulate, with six to 
ten broad, oblong, almost spreading lobes. FE. penduliflora, 
a handsome, hardy, villous-pubescent or viscid annual, has 
been introduced. For culture, see Annuals. 
E. pendulifiora (pendulous-flowered). #1. cream-coloured or 
yellow, at length pendulous, nearly sin. long; racemes panicled, 
mostly short and loose. July. /. pinnatifid into numerous short 
and somewhat toothed or incised lobes. kh. 9in. to 12in. Cali- 
fornia, 1892. (G. C. 1892, xi., p. 339, f. 49.) 
EMPHYTUS CINCTUS. 
Vol. Ill, p. 327. 
See Rose Sawflies, 
EMPODIUM. A synonym of Cureuligo (which 
see). 
EMPUSA. Included under Liparis (which see). 
ENARGEA. A synonym of Luzuriaga (which see). 
ENCELIA (from egchelion, a little eel; in allusion tc 
the appearance of the seeds). Syn. Pallasia (of 
L’Héritier). Orb. Composite. A genus embracing about 
a score species of branched, villous, pubescent, or tomentose 
herbs, sometimes shrubby at the base, natives of Mexico or 
Western America, from Chili to California. Flower-heads 
yellow, violet, or purplish, radiate, mediocre or rather 
