-TKATIoN IIOKTICOLE. 



OLIDEMLA VITTATA. linden & andre. 



.ye. 



us elongatu 

 xtus dentibus elongatis instructis. Petala i 

 membranaceae non raro inserta. Stamina 1 

 erae lineari-oblongae v. subulatae, rectae, 

 I gibbo v. 2-tuberculatQ. Ovarium plus mini 

 , 3-9 loculare; stylus filiformis, brevis v. el 



ngatus, 



•ula. raphe ampla exseulpta. — Frutices ramosi, hirsuti 

 ia. intrgerrima cremdata v. dcnticidata. Flores in pani- 

 pani, albi rose/ v. purpvrei, bractcati v. ebracteati, 

 incolac. (Charact. e Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant I, p. 766). 

 in. in An. Sc. not. ser. 3, XVII, 305, pro maxima parte 

 16 (excl. sect. 4 et 5). — Bonpl. Melast. t. 3, 4. — Bot. 

 '■onm phyl t. II. B. 



molliter rufo-tomentosi ; folia breviter petiolata, petiolo 

 subacuto amplo ac valde conspicuo, 20-30 cent, longo, 

 Boo, medio vitta argentea omato, subtus tomento rufo 

 et ivtirulatis; panicula orocta, brevis. densa, pedunculo 

 livaricati, pihs rufis stollatis sossilibus ad basin tumidam 

 :tae; flores subsessiles; calyx glaber tubuloso campanu- 

 glabra obovato-obtn.sa (■ou.'ava hand miguiculata 4 mill, 

 is, minutis, anthera recta ligtiln. lincari. loculis ad disse- 

 lus robustus cylindraceus , calycis tubuni vix superans; 

 t hort. Linden.— E. A. 



, 1873. - Ad viv. flor. de< 



j'xci'(>(liuglj' difficult to characterise in words. The genus 

 CUdemia, whose description we borrow from Messrs. Ben- 

 thain ;iml Hooker's Genera Plant arum , is confined to Ame- 

 rica Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Guiana, Mexico, Costa-Rica 

 and \enezuela. - About thirty species are known. 



As an ornamental plant Clidemia vittata is ts foliage 

 one of the most noble in cultivation, and if Cyanophyllum 

 magnificum were not known, there would be no Melasto- 

 maceous plant in cultivation to surpass it. It is a hot-house 

 plant of easy cultivation, nourishing under the same treat- 

 ment as Sphaerogyne and Cyanophyllum. 



Ed. Andee. 



This spl 



fertilisation 



FLORICULTURE. 



LILIUM PARKMANNL 



cross- ratum, and it was nine inches and a half in diameter. 



I T Tf Sl f SeqUent flowers cached nearly a foot in diameter. 



' >• the It the plant is Qf eagy propagation? and especja]ly tf it 



onpLd T r Seed ' W6 may con S ratula te ourselves on the acquisition 



penecl of a new and magnificent race of the Imperial Lily of Japan. 



