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Pelargonium—continued. 
floriferous, bushy habit; PAuL CRAMPEL, crimson-scarlet, 
excellent ; Royal Visit, deep scarlet, dwarf, and free-flowering. 
Double-flowered Varieties (Fig. 622) adapted for Pot Culture. 
ADVANCER, pure white, very free-flowering, dwarf, and compact ; 
Captain H. COLVILLF, brilliant scarlet, trusses '.vge and 
freely produced, compact habit; DouBLE JacoBy, a double 
form of the dark crimson HENRY JACOBY, with all that old 
favourite’s good habit ; DUKE OF FIFE, semi-double, a splendid 
searlet sport from F. V. RAsSPAIL; HERMINE, semi-double, 
pure white, very free, and one of the best for winter flowering ; 
Sirk HAMILTON, magenta, sturdy habit, and very floriferous ; 
VILLE DE POITIERS, scarlet, free-flowering, and of dwarf habit. 
Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums, 
Double and Semi-Double Flowered. ERNEST BERGMAN, crimson- 
searlet, trusses and flowers very large; LA FRANCE, soft lilac, 
flowers very large and distinct, dwarf, compact habit; 
SOUVENIR DE CHARLES TURNER, deep pink, feathered with 
deep maroon in the upper petals, flowers and trusses very 
large, one of the best. 
Scented-leaved Pelargoniums. 
CrispuM, foliage small and sweetly citron-scented; DENTICU- 
LATUM Maus, foliage of medium size and finely cut, habit 
compact, sweetly scented; Fark HELEN, large Oak-leaved 
foliage, strongly scented; FILICIFOLIUM OpOoRATUM, foliage 
beautifully cut and Fern-like, with a very pleasing scent ; LADY 
Mary, medium foliage, nutmeg-scented; LADY PLYMOUTH, 
medium foliage, prettily variegated; PHEASANT’S Foor, foliage 
in the form of a pheasant’s foot, sweet-scented, good habit ; 
PRETTY POoLty, foliage large and almond-scented, dwarf 
habit ; PRINCE OF ORANGE, foliage small, richly orange-scented, 
dwarf habit; QUERCIFOLIUM, foliage large and Oak-leaved, not 
agreeably scented, but ornamental; RADULA Mavor, foliage 
small and Fern-like, citron-scented ; SHOTTESHAM PET, foliage 
medium and Filbert-scented, dwarf habit ; VARIEGATED PRINCE 
OF ORANGE, a variegated form of PRINCE OF ORANGE, 
PELECYPHORA. To the species, &c., described on 
p. 65, Vol. III., the following varieties should be added: 
= aselliformis cristata (crested). A cockscom)b or crested 
orm. 
P. a. pectinatus (comb-like). A variety with larger scales 
than the type. (R. G. 1885, p. 25, under name of P. pectinatus.) 
PELEXIA. To the species described on p. 65, 
Vol. III., the following should be added: 
P. adnata (adnate). The correct name of P. spiranthoides. 
P. maculata (spotted). #1. green, tipped with pink; scape 
purple, lft. long, clothed with sheaths and bracts. 7. shining 
olive-green blotched with grey above, purplish below. 1893. 
P. olivacea (olive-green). 7. pubescent, disposed in a raceme 
6in. long; sepals olive-green; petals and lip white. J. olive- 
green, marked with two silvery bands. Andes, 1891. 
P. roseo-alba (pinkish-white). jl. white, borne on_ erect 
scapes lft. high. J. olive-green, spotted with white. Brazil, 
1892. Syn. P. Travassosii. 
P. saccata (saccate). jl. green, small, with a whitish lip; 
raceme 6in. long. J. ovate, 6in. long, 2in. broad, light green, 
pretty. marbled with grey. Guatemala, 1895. Allied to 
. maculata, 
P. Travassosii (Travassos’). A synonym of P. roseo-alba. 
P. Wendlandiana (Wendland’s), . greenish-brown with a 
white lip, disposed in a spike. Stem 2ft. high. 1892. Mainly 
of botanical interest. 
PELICAN FLOWER. ‘See Aristolochia gigas 
(the correct name of A. grandiflora). 
PELIOSANTHES. To the species described on 
p. 66, Vol. III., the following should be added: 
P. albida (whitish). 1. white, small; raceme longer than the 
petioles, stout, erect; scape very short. Summer. J. elegantly 
tufted, five- to eight-nerved, lft. long, l4in. to 2in. broad, 
elliptic-langeolate, caudate-acuminate; petioles stout, 6in. 
long. Malay Peninsula, 1885. Plant dwarf. (B. M. 7110.) 
PELLZA. Cliff Brake Ferns. Coming as they do from 
various and distantly-situated parts of the globe, Pellwas 
are well adapted for the ornamentation of the stove and 
of the greenhouse alike; such species as P. falcata, 
P. rotundifolia, and P. atropurpurea (Fig. 623) are very 
nearly hardy in some favoured parts of this country. 
All the Pellwas are of small or medium dimensions, 
and are very useful for planting in rockeries or in 
small hanging-baskets, in which positions they are 
much more effective than when grown in pots. They 
require but little soil, and a comparatively: exposed 
situation suits them best. They flourish in a compost 
Pellwza—continued. 
of a light and very porous nature, such as a mixture of 
two parts peat, one part loam, and one part silver-sand, 
or, better still, pulverised old mortar, in which their thin, 
fibrous roots delight to run. Pellwas should not at any 
time be allowed to get dry at the roots, but their foliage 
should never be wetted. They prefer being kept close to 
the light, which is never too strong for them, provided 
they are sheltered from the direct rays of the sun. 
BP roy 
Fig, 623. PELLAA ATROPURPUREA. 
Most cultivated Pellxas are readily propagated by means 
of spores, which are abundantly produced and germinate 
freely. Those species which are proyided with ronning 
rhizomes may be propagated by division, an operation 
performed most successfully during March and April. 
To the species described on pp. 66-7, Vol. III, the 
following should be added : 
P. adiantifolia (Adiantum-fronded). 
P. hastata. 
P. adiantoides (Adiantum-like).* sti. black, shining, lft. or 
more in length. fronds lift. to 2ft. long, broadly ovate, 
bipinnate ; pinne at the base having seven to ten pinnules, 
the rest gradually decreasing upwards to a simply-pinnate 
apex; barren pinnules ovate and bluntly toothed, the fertile 
ones more entire and acute, those next the midrib occasionally 
auricled, the terminal one hastate. seri in a narrow, continuous, 
marginal line. West Indies. A handsome and _ vigorous 
greenhouse species. SyNS. Platyloma adiantoides, Pteris adianti- 
Jolia, Pteris adiantoides, Pteris latifolia. 
P. alabamensis (Alabama). sti. wiry, polished, blackish, 2in, 
to 4in. long, covered at base with reddish-brown scales, as 
also is the short-creeping, branched rhizome. fronds broadly 
ovate, 4in. to 8in, long, 1Jin. to 2in. broad, bi- or tripinnatifid ; 
inn numerous, closely placed, coriaceous, cut to the midrib 
into numerous narrow-oblong segments, which are mostly 
entire, but the lowest are again pinnatifid. sori having a 
broad involucre. North America. Greenhouse. Syns. Allosorus 
alabamensis, Cheilanthes alabamensis. (UU. 8. F. ii, p. 89, 
t. 103B.) 
P. cordata sagittata (arrow shaped). This is closely’ related 
to the variety flecuosa, but its fronds are not zigzag, and its 
habit, instead of being drooping, is upright. fronds triangular, 
bipinnate, L4ft. to 2ft. long; pinnules rolli heir margins under 
and becoming arrow-shaped when fertile, cordate when barren. 
Syns. Allosorus sagittatus, Platyloma sagittata. 
P. decomposita (decompound). The plant found in catalogues 
under this name is P. angustifolia, described in Vol. TLL 
P. sagittata (arrow-shaped). A form of P. cordata, 
A garden synonym of 
