CYANELLA 



THE BULB BOOK 



CYCLAMEN 



O. angustifolia. 3 ft. Flowers 

 yellow. Himalayas. 



O. australasica. Flowers yellow. 

 N.E. Australia. (Bot. Mag. t. 5620.) 



C. Bakeriana. Flowers large, 

 orange-yellow. New Guinea. 



C. caesia. 1 ft. Flowers yellow. 

 Bengal. 



O. elata. 3 to 6 ft. Flowers 

 crimson. Burmah. 



O. ferruginea. 1 ft. Flowers 

 yellow. Bengal. A very fine species 

 with voluminous tubercules. 



C. latifolia. 12 ft. Flowers white 

 outside, yellow within. Leaves over 

 a yard long and a foot broad. E. 

 Indies. 



C. leucorhiza. 1 ft. Flowers red 

 and yellow. E. Indies. 



C. longa. 2 ft. Flowers yellowish. 

 A handsome plant. The pointed 

 cylindrical root-stocks or tubers are 

 yellowish externally; they yield a deep 

 yellow resinous powder called tur- 

 meric, at one time much used in the 

 E. Indies in medicine, and also as a 

 yellow dye. Mustard is said to be 

 frequently adulterated with it, owing 

 probably to its taste and ginger-like 

 odour. (Bot. Mag. t. 269 ; Bot. Beg. 

 t. 886 ; Red. Lil. t. 473.) 



C. petiolata (C. cordata).l to 2 

 ft. Flowers yellow, white. Leaves 

 heart-shaped at the base. Burmah. 

 (Bot. Mag. tt. 4435, 5821.) 



C. Rose o Sana. 1 ft. Flowers 

 scarlet. A fine species. E. Indies. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 4667.) 



O. Zedoaria (C. Zerumbet}Z ft. 

 Flowers red, yellow. E. Indies. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 1546.) 



CYANELLA (kyanos, blue), Nat. 

 Ord. Haemodoraceae. A genus con- 

 taining four or five species of S. 

 African plants having small fibrous- 

 coated corms, radical, or rarely 

 cauline, lance-shaped or linear leaves. 

 Flowers in loose racemes or solitary. 



Perianth with six lobes, the three 

 outer ones drooping. Stamens six, 

 attached to the base of the lobes. 

 Capsule ovoid, triquetrous, and three- 

 celled. 



These are pretty little plants, rather 

 too tender for most parts of the 

 Kingdom for growing in the open 

 air. The little bulbs, however, may 

 be planted in favoured parts in 

 warm, sunny, and sheltered positions, 

 in a light, rich, and very sandy soil. 

 In bleaker localities a cool green- 

 house or cold frame will be essential. 

 To prevent the bulbs in the open 

 getting lost or destroyed, it may be 

 advisable to grow them in pots, to 

 be plunged or buried in the soil. 

 When offsets are produced, they may 

 be utilised to increase the stock. 



C. capensis (C. cosrulea). A 

 charming little plant about 1 ft. high, 

 introduced to cultivation as long ago 

 as 1768. The lance-shaped wavy 

 leaves are smooth above, but hairy 

 underneath on the main veins. 

 About July and August, the violet- 

 purple flowers are produced in forked 

 spikes on the branching stems. (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 568 ; Red. Lil. t. 373.) 



O. lutea. This species has yellow 

 flowers borne on stems having one or 

 two upright branches, and lance- 

 shaped non-wavy leaves (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1252). 



C. odoratissima. This is probably 

 only a form of C. lutea, but has 

 deep rosy sweet-scented blossoms 

 (Bot. Reg. t. 1111.) 



Other species known, but rarely 

 seen in cultivation, are C. alba, with 

 white flowers, and C. orchidiformis, 

 with blue flowers. 



CYCLAMEN (kydos, circular; 

 referring either to the spirally twisted 

 flower-stalk, or to the round tubers 

 or leaves), SOWBREAD. Nat. Ord. 

 Primulacese. A genus of distinct 



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