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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
LOPHIRA. [L. alata is the correct name of the plant 
described on p. 298, Vol. IL., as L. africana. 
LOPHOCLINIUM. A synonym of Podotheca 
(which see). 
LOPHOPHORA (from lophos, a crest, and phoreo, 
to bear; in allusion to the flower-bearing areola and tuft 
of hairs at the summit of the tubercles). The generic 
name proposed by J. M. Coulter, the American botanist, 
for Anhaloniwm Williamsti (Syn. Echinocactus Williamsii) 
and its form Lewinti. 
LOPHOXERA. A synonym of Celosia (which see). 
LOPSEED. See Phryma. 
LORANTHUS (from loron, a strap, and anthos, a 
flower; in allusion to the shape of the petals). ORD. 
Loranthacee. A large genus (about 330 species) of stove, 
greenhouse, or hardy, parasitic shrubs, rarely terrestrial 
trees or shrubs, broadly distributed throughout the tropics, 
beyond which few extend. Flowers often beautifully 
coloured, small or long, hermaphrodite or by abortion 
dicecious; perianth double; calyx truncate or four- to 
six-toothed ; petals four to six, valvate. Fruit baccate 
or drupaceous. Leayes entire, often thick or fleshy. 
L. flavidus is an interesting, hardy or half-hardy parasite, 
stated, in ‘‘ Gartenflora,’’ to be in cultivation in England ; 
this is, however, doubtful. It may possibly be grown by 
sowing the berries upon the above-ground roots or on the 
branches of the Beech-tree. 
L. flavidus (yellowish). 7. produced in small racemes from the 
previous year’s growth; perianth yellowish, sin. long, having a 
slender tube, and four narrow, reflexed segments. ¢. opposite, 
petiolate, oblong, about Ijin. long, obtuse and thick. New 
Zealand, 1885. 
LORD ABERDEEN’S PINE. See 
Pinaster Hamiltoni. 
LORD PENZANCE’S HYBRID SWEET- 
BRIARS. See Rosa. 
LORENTEA (of Lagasca). 
(which see), 
LORENTEA (of Ortega). 
(which see). 
LOROGLOSSUM. 
see). 
LOTE. See Zizyphus Lotus. 
LOTUS ARBOREUS. A synonym of Carmichelia 
australis (which see). 
LOTUS, SACRED. ‘See Nelumbium. 
LOUREA (named in honour of Professor Loureiro, of 
Lisbon). Orv. Leguminose. A small genus (three or four 
species) of stove herbs, natives of tropical Asia and 
Australia, and allied to Desmodium. Flowers in terminal, 
simple or panicled racemes. Leaves stipellate ; leaflets one 
to three. L. Vespertilionis has been introduced, but if is 
not of much horticultural value. 
LOURYA (named in honour of Jules Louis Charles 
Boys de Loury), Orp. Hzmodoracexw. A monotypic 
genus. The species is a very curious stove plant, with 
the habit of Curculigo and Peliosanthes, differing from 
the former in the stamens and basal ovules, and from 
the latter in the baccate fruit, the pericarp of which is 
not burst open when in a young state by the enlarging 
seeds. In general appearance this plant looks like an 
Aspidistra, but far showier by reason of its flowers and 
fruit. For culture, see Peliosanthes. 
L. campanulata (bell-shaped).* #1. sin. across in a dense 
raceme; perianth pale yellow, with a purple disk, broadly 
campanulate, the limb of six broad lobes; raceme radical, 
about din. long, very dense. December and January. fr. bright 
blue, ovoid, obtuse, lin. long and Zin. broad, produced in 
clusters. 7. (with the petiole) 10in. to 20in. long, 3in. to 4in. 
broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, radical. Cochin 
ching, 1889. (B. M. 7482 ; R. H. 1889, p. 128, f. 32.) A beautiful 
plant. 
LOW BLACKBERRY. See Rubus canadensis. 
LOWIA (named in honour of Sir Hugh Low, C.M.G.). 
Syn. Orchidantha. Orv. Scitaminee. A genus embracing 
three species of interesting, stove, perennial herbs, natives 
of Borneo, Perak, and the Malay Peninsula, resembling 
dwarf Heliconias in foliage, but with flowers like those of 
Pinus 
Included under Pectis 
A synonym of Sanvitalia 
Included under Orchis (which 
Lowia—continued. 
an Orchid, and having five stamens instead of one. For 
culture, see Heliconia. 
L. borneénsis (Bornean). ° 1. eres in short spikes close 
to the ground ; sepals yellowish at base, purplish towards the 
apex, narrow linear-lanceolate, acute, lin. long ; petals blackish- 
violet, aristate, rather more than din. long, the lowest linear, 
acuminate, lin. long. J. elliptic-oblong, acuminate, bright green, 
6in. to 8in. long, 24in. to din. broad; petioles Sin, to 10in. long. 
Borneo, 1886. SyN. Orchidantha borneensis. 
L. longiflora (long-flowered). 1. 6in. long; sepals olive, linear- 
lanceolate, spreading; two smaller petals purplish, the third 
pure white, larger, lip-like; scapes lft. long, one-flowered. 
4, tufted, 3ft. long. Perak, 1896. Plant stemless. (G. C. 1896, 
Xx., p. 652, f. 111.) 
L. maxillarioides (Maxillaria-like). 1. in a lax ae with 
two or three branches; sepals spreading, 14in. long; petals 
three, the lowest much the largest, green. June. 7. distichous, 
tufted, lanceolate, 8in. to Yin. long; petioles long, erect. Root- 
stock shortly creeping. Malay Peninsula, 1894. Plant stem- 
less. (B. M. 7351.) 
LOXANTHUS. A 
(which see). 
LOXOTIS. A synonym of Rhynchoglossum (which 
see). 
LOXSOMA. Little can be said with certainty on the 
culture of L. Cunninghami. In its native habitat it is 
said to grow with the foliage exposed to the action of 
the air to such a degree that no other member of the 
tribe Hymenophyllew could withstand, but at the same 
time with its roots, which are of a peculiarly wiry nature, 
constantly in water. The soil in which it is found in its 
native places is said to be a yellow loam of a very clayey 
nature, and this has proved to be the case with all the 
importations which we have seen. Little can be said 
about its propagation, beyond the fact that in a natural 
state it increases itself rapidly by means of its spores, 
which are produced in great abundance. 
LOZOTZINIA ROSANA. See Rosa—Insects. 
LUDIA. Two species, natives of the Mascarene 
Islands, are referred to this genus. Flowers axillary, sessile 
or shortly pedicellate ; sepals four or five; petals wanting. 
Leaves entire, serrated or (in the same specimen) incised. 
L. heterophylla (variable-leaved), of Bory. A synonym of 
Aphloia mauritiana. 
rede a A synonym of Arundinaria (which 
see). 
LUDOVIA (named in honour of Lonisa, Queen of 
Charles IV. of Spain). Orv. Cyclanthaceer. A small 
genus (two species) of stove plants, with a thick, rooting 
caudex, natives of French Guiana and Brazil; they are 
very closely allied to Carludovica (which see for culture). 
Flowers disposed in dense spitals; spadices axillary, 
shortly pedunculate, oblong-cylindrical ; spathes three to 
five, distichous. Leaves distichons, very large, thick, 
rigid, slightly sheathing at base, somewhat petiolate, 
lanceolate or almost spathulate, acute, crenate-toothed 
towards the apex. 
L. crenifolia (crenate-leaved). 7. sheathing, distichous, closely 
set, about 14ft. long, dark green, leathery, obovate-lanceolate, 
slightly crenate, gradually tapering at base into an amplexicaul 
penale about 8in. long. Amazons, 1893. (G. C.1893, xiil., p. 442, 
synonym of Phlogacanthus 
LUDOVIA (of Persoon). 
(which see). 
LUEDDEMANNIA (named in honour of Herr 
Lueddemann). ORD, Orchidee. A small genus of stove 
Orchids, natives of Sonth America, closely allied to 
Cycnoches (ander which it was included by the authors 
of the ‘‘Genera Plantarum”). Ovary velvety; sepals 
oblong, acute, fornicate; petals cuneate-oblong, acute ; 
peduncle pendulous, very many-flowered. For culture, 
see Catasetum. 
L. Lehmanni (Lehmann’s) 
Lehmanni. i 
L. Pescatorei (Pescatore’s). /l. 1jin. in diameter; sepals dull 
yellow, with a little brown inside; petals and lip bright 
yellow peduncles 3ft. long, bearing nearly a hundred flowers. 
uly. 7. leathery, glaucous, lanceolate. Colombia, 1848. The 
lant exhales an odour like that of decaying Oranges. (B. M. 
aD) Syns. Acineta glauca, Cycnoches Pescatorei (P. F. G. i, 
p. 123). 
A synonym of Carludovica 
The correct name of Cycnoches 
