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PLUM. To the list of varieties on pp. 165-6, Vol. 
TIL., the following should be added: 
Archduke. [Fruit large, oval, purple, and very handsome. 
End of September or early October. _ Equally fine for cooking, 
dessert, or preserving. A comparatively new variety, raised 
by Mr. Rivers, and a valuable sort for both private and 
market growers, owing to its lateness. 
Belle de Louvain. Fruit very large, oval, reddish-purple, 
covered with a good bloom; flesh yellow and clinging to the 
stone. Middle of August. A splendid variety for cooking or 
preserving. Tree a most abundant bearer. 
Brahy’s Green Gage. Fruit medium, roundish-oval; skin 
yellow, with a delicate bloom; flesh of the most delicious 
Gage flavour. End of July. A productive variety. 
Burbank. Fruit large, oval, yellow, with red spots, and 
agreeable flavour, A Japanese variety, with foliage somewhat 
like the Peach. Excellent in pots or under glass, but 
doubtful outside in this country. 
Gisborne’s. Fruit medium, roundish-oval; skin a beautiful 
amber colour when fully ripe; flesh solid, juicy, and of good 
flavour. August. Tree a most abundant bearer. 
Golden Transparent Gage. Fruit large, round, bright 
poldea-yellow 5 flesh very tender and of exquisite flavour. 
ctober. This should not be pruned severely. 
Large Black Imperial. Fruit very large, dark purple; flesh 
firm, and excellent for culinary purposes. September. Hardy 
and prolific. 
Monarch. [Fruit large, oval, deep peer aS covered with 
a dense bloom; flesh firm, brisk, and pleasant, parting freely 
from the stone. September. A very valuable, late, culinary 
variety, raised by Mr. Rivers, and should prove an acquisition 
for market growers, as the tree is hardy and very prolific 
either against wall or in the open ground, and the fruit does 
not crack with the rain. 
Reine Claude du Comte Hathem. Fruit medium to 
large, round, rosy-red, with a lovely bloom; flesh melting 
and of delicious flavour, parting freely from the stone. 
September. A dessert variety of great excellence when grown 
against a wall, and a good cropper. 
Wyedale. Fruit medium, roundish, dark purple; flesh yellow, 
firm, and excellent for cooking. Middle of October. One of 
the best late Plums, frequently hanging on the trees after 
all the foliage has fallen. It is very hardy, and succeeds in 
cold districts. 
Damsons. 
Blue Prolific. Fruit medium, deep purple; flesh juicy and 
highly flavoured. Early in August. Tree very productive. 
Bradley’s King. Fruit large, oval, deep purple-black. A 
very fine, new variety, a great cropper, and rapidly coming 
into favour with market growers. 
Frogmore. Fruit medium, roundish-oval, black; flesh tirm 
and of excellent flavour, quite good enough for dessert. 
August. This is the richest-flavoured Damson, and the tree 
is very hardy and prolific. 
PLUM, GUINEA. See Parinaria excelsa. 
PLUM FIR. See Prumnopitys elegans (Podo- 
carpus andina). 
PLUM NUTMEGS. A common name for the fruits 
of some species of Monimiacez. 
PLUMBAGO. To the species described on pp. 169-70, 
Vol. III., the following variety should be added: 
= a alba (white). A variety having white flowers. 
PLUMED THISTLE. See Cnicus. 
PLUMERIA. To the species described on p. 170, 
Vol. III., the following shonld be added : 
P. alba (white). . white, 2in. long, fragrant; corolla lobes 
rather longer than the tube; cyme long-pedunculate, with 
fascicled branches. July and August. J. narrow-lanceolate, 
6in. to_12in. long, revolute, coriaceous; pefioles Zin. to 14in. 
long. West Indies, 1738 and 1894. 
PLUTELLA CRUCIFERARUM. See Diamond- 
Back Moth. 
POA. To the species described on p. 171, Vol. IIL, 
the following should be added : 
P. flabellata (fan-shaped). /., spikelets compressed, about 
five-flowered; glumes sub-equal; pale unequal, the outer 
ones acuminate, somewhat awned; panicle oblong, dense, 
compressed. 7. highly glabrous, convolute, acute, rigid ; lower 
ones flabellate, distichous. Falkland Island, Cape Horn, &e. 
Syns. Dactylis cespitosa (R. G. 1194, 1197), Festuca jlabellata. 
POCKET PLUMS. See Bladder or Pocket 
Plums. 
Vol. V. 
PODACHZENIUM (from pous, podos, a foot, and 
achane, an achene; in allusion to the achenes being 
contracted at the base into a two-winged stalk). Syns. 
Cosmophyllum and Dicalymma. ORv. Composite. A 
small genus (two species) of stove, American shrubs, 
One of them, P. paniculatwm, will be found described 
under Zaluzania (which see for culture). 
P. andinum (from the Andes). /l.-heads disposed in loose 
corymbs; ray florets white; disk yellow. J/. large, coarsely 
lobed. Andes of Colombia, 1892. A useful plant for sub- 
tropical bedding. (R. H. 1892, p. 414, f. 125-6.) 
PODALYRIA. P. lwpinoides is a synonym of Ther- 
mopsis lanceolata. P. capensis is identical with Virgilia 
capensis, and P. australis is the same as Baptisia 
australis. 
PODANTHES. This genus is now included under 
Stapelia. P. incarnata is a synonym of Boucerosia 
incarnata. 
Ae nee A synonym of Trichopus (which 
see). 
PODISOMA FUSCUM. See Pear—Fungi. 
PODOCARPUS. ‘To the species described on 
pp. 172-3, Vol. III., the following should be added: 
P. alpinus (alpine). fr. small, bifid. 7. thickly scattered or 
somewhat distichous, linear, obtuse, fin. to 4in. long, with 
a small spine at apex, deep green above, glaucous beneath. 
Branches long, slender, spreading. h. 10ft. to 12ft. (when 
supported by a stake). Tasmanian mountains, &c. A hardy 
species. 
P. andinus. The correct name is Prumnopitys elegans. 
P. andinus (of gardens). A synonym of P. chilina. 
P. asplenifolia (Spleenwort-leaved). A synonym of Phyllo- 
cladus rhomboidalis. 
P. chilinus (Chilian).* jr. dark purple, gin. to 4in. long. 
7. linear-lanceolate, acute, straight or rarely falcate, alternate, 
spreading, sessile, entire, flat, smooth, bright green, Sin. to 
4in. long, with a single, paler nerve, glaucous beneath. 
Branches very numerous, alternate, opposite, or in threes. 
h. 40ft. to 60ft. Mountains of Chili, 1853. Hardy in the South 
and West of England. Syn. P. andinus (of gardens). 
P. elatus (tall). The correct name of P. ensifolius. 
P. Endlicherianus is probably a form of P. neriifolius. 
P. japonica elegantissima (very elegant). 7. when young 
pale yellow, but with age assuming the normal tint. 
P. macrophyllus (large-leaved). jr. oval, as large as Peas. 
l. alternate or scattered, linear-lanceolate or somewhat 
ghleng; flat on the edges, distant, dry, coriaceous, 2in. to 
4in. long, 4in. broad, rarely faleate, pale shining een, 
obtuse, or with a stiff, blackish point. A. 40ft. to 50ft. Japan. 
Hardy. There are gold- and silver-leaved varieties respectively. 
This is one of the species used by the Japs for dwarfing. 
P. pectinatus (comb-like).* J. nearly lin. long, 8in. broad, 
densely arranged in two ranks, one on either side of the 
branches, linear, falcately curved towards the acute point, 
dark green above, silvery beneath, with revolute margins. 
New Caledonia, 1892. Greenhouse. A pretty species for table- 
decoration. 
P. variegatus (variegated), A synonym of P. Totara. 
PODOCHILUS (from pous, podos, a foot, and cheilos, 
a lip; the lip is joined to the column at its apex by a 
foot or stalk). Syns. Apista, Cryptoglottis, Hexameria, 
Platysma, Plocostigma. Onp. Orchidew. A genus 
embracing about a dozen species of stove, epiphytal 
Orchids, natives of the East Indies and the Malayan 
Archipelago. Flowers small, often minute, disposed in 
terminal racemes; sepals erect, connivent; petals almost 
equal to the dorsal seral or narrower; bracts small. 
Leayes small, distichous.- P. longicalcaratus, the only 
species introduced, requires similar culture to other Hast 
Indian Orchids. 
P. longicalearatus (long-spurred). l. white and purple, 
small, disposed in a raceme lin. long. J. lin. long, sin. broad. 
Stem 2ft. long. Borneo, 1894. 
PODOCOCCUS (from pous, podos, a foot, and kokkos, 
a berry; in allusion to the stalked, baccate fruit). ORD. 
Palme. A monotypic genus. The species is _a stove 
Palm, allied to Wallichia. For culture, see Palme 
Young plants grow slowly, and sucker very freely, in 
hot, moist house. 
P. Barteri (Parter’s). fl. reddish, sessile, ternate; spadices 
simple, pendulous, on Jong, slender peduncles; spathes four, 
tubular, marcescent. jr. orange, oblong-cylindrical, stalked, 
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