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EDWARDSIA. See Sophora. 



EFFUSE. Generally applied to an inflorescence. A 

 very loosely-arranged panicle is said to be Effuse. 

 EGENOLFIA. See Acrostichum. 

 EGO-BEARING GOURD. See Cucurbita Fepo 

 ovifera and Vegetable Marrow. 

 EGG PLANT. See Aubergine. 

 EGLANTINE. " A name that has been the subject 

 of much discussion, both as to its exact meaning, and 

 as to the shrub to which it belongs." The Eglantine of 

 Gerard, Parkinson, and some of the other old writers, is, 

 no doubt, Rosa rubiginosa, our common Swectbriar. The 

 " twisted Eglantine " of Milton is " supposed to have 

 meant the Woodbine (Lonicera Periclymenum), which is 

 still known as Eglantine in North-east Yorkshire" (Prior). 

 EGYPTIAN BEAN OF PYTHAGORAS. See 

 Nelumbium speciosum. 



EGYPTIAN LOTUS. See Nymphma Lotus. 

 EHRETIA (named after G. D. Ehret, an artist and 

 botanist, born in Germany 1708, died in England 1770). 

 TRIBE Ehretiece of OBD. Boraginece. Handsome stove or 

 greenhouse evergreen trees or shrubs. Flowers usually 

 white, small, in corymbose cymes or terminal panicles ; 

 calyx small, deeply ' five-parted ; corolla salver-shaped, 

 with a five-parted limb. Leaves petiolate, alternate, oppo- 

 site, or three in a whorl, entire or serrated. They thrive 

 in a compost of loam and peat. Cuttings will root in 

 sandy soil, in spring, if placed under a bell glass, in 

 bottom heat. 



EL serrate, (serrate). /. white, small, numerous, collected into 

 small, nearly sessile fascicles, having a powerful honey-like 

 perfume. I. alternate, broad-lanceolate, serrated, five-pointed. 

 A. 6ft East Indies, 1825. Stove. (B. R. 1097.) 

 E. tlnifolia (Tinus-leaved). ft. white, small, numerous, strong- 

 scented ; panicles terminal, oblong. June, July. i. oblong- 

 ovate, or ovate, quite entire, about 4in. long. A. 16ft to 28ft 

 West Indies, &c., 1734. Greenhouse. 

 EHRETIEJE. A tribe of the order Boragvnea. 

 EICHHORNIA (named in honour of J. A. F. Eich- 

 horn, an eminent Prussian). OBD. Pontederiacece. In- 

 teresting and beautiful stove aquatics, natives of South 

 America and tropical Africa. They may be placed in 

 large pots, filled with rather coarse rich soil, which 

 should afterwards be immersed and kept in a tank oi 

 water heated to about SOdeg. E. crassipea floats on the 

 surface of such water, and grows freely, without the roots- 

 being in soil. Propagated by division of the rhizomes, 

 in spring. 



E. azurea (blue).* fl. scattered or crowded in pairs along a stout, 

 hairy, sessile rachis ; perianth bright pale blue, funnel-shaped, 

 hairy externally. July. L on long or short petioles, which are 

 not inflated ; very variable in size and shape, Sin. to 8m. in 

 diameter from rounded-cordate to trapezifonn or rhomboid, 

 or very broadly oblate and obcordate, rounded-retuse or sub-acute 

 at the tip. Stem as thick as the thumb, floating and rooting, 

 green, smooth, flexuous. Brazil, 1879. (B. M. 6487:) 

 E. crassipes (thick -stalked).* ft. funnel-shaped, about Urn. long, 

 ix ovate-oblong violet segments ; racemes many-flowered ; 

 thick; spathe terminal, recurved. Summer. I. 

 , orbicular, acute-stalked ; stalk much thickene< 



1879. (B. M. 2932, under name of 



of 



flower-stalks 



large, fleshy, or, 



the 5 base. Rhizome thick. 



Pontederia azurea.) 



panlculata (paniculate), 

 t^WlvT? perianth petal 



fl. in a compound spike of from ten 

 lower lip of three 



late, entire, striated ; me sinus M me *<= "^5, ""." . 

 Steins often several from the same root, 1ft to lift, high 

 .strongest specimens, erect, terete, soft and herbaceous sheathe, 

 below with the membranaceous and stipulate bases of the radical 

 leaves, and a few long leaHess scales. South America, (B. M. 

 5020, under name of E. tricolor.) 



EKEBERGIA (named in honour of Charles Gnstavns 

 Ekeberg captain of a Swedish East Indiaman, who took 

 Sparmann to China for the purpose of making inquiries 

 in natural history). ORD. Meliacece. A genus of about 

 three species of fine greenhouse evergreen trees, from 

 tropical and Southern Africa. For culture, gee Melia. 



Ekebergia continued. 



E. capencte (Cape), ft. white. July. I. impari-pinnate, with 

 four or five pairs of elliptical, acuminate, smooth leaflet*. 

 Cape of Good Hope, 1789. A large tree. 



ELJBAGNACE2B. A small order of trees or shrubs, 

 more or less covered with minute silvery or brown scurfy 

 scales. Flowers white or yellow, regular, one or two- 

 sexual, axillary, fascicled or cymose. Leaves alternate or 

 opposite, exstipulate, entire. The order is represented in 

 Britain by Hippophae rhamnoides, the Sea Buckthorn, a 

 spiny shrub, thriving well near the sea. There are three 

 genera, Elaagnus, Hippophae and Shepherdia, and about 

 twenty species. 



ELJE AGNUS (from Elaios, the Olive; and Agno*, the 

 Vitex Agnut-castus ; the Elaeagnos of Theophrastus is the 

 Willow). Oleaster, or Wild Olive. ORD. Elatagnacece. Very 

 ornamental, deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees. 

 Flowers axillary, clustered or solitary ; perianth campann- 

 late or salver-shaped. Leaves simple, alternate. They 

 grow freely in any ordinary soil that is tolerably dry, and 

 may be readily increased by seeds, layers or cuttings. 



:. argcntea (silvery), fl. yellow, aggregate, nodding, axillary. 

 July, August fr. roundish-ovate, covered with silvery scales, 

 ribbed, t waved, oval-oblong, rather acute, glabrous on both 



surfaces, and covered with silvery scales. A. 

 America, 1813. (W. D. B. ii. 161.) 

 E. crlspa (curled). A synonym of E. longipe*. 



glabra (glabrous), fl. whitish, sub-solitary in the axils of the 

 es. Autumn. I. ovate-oblong, acuminate, evergreen ; adult 

 i green above, clothed below with rusty-coloured scales. A. 



3ft to 6ft Japan. There are very pretty variegated forms of th N 

 species. 



FIG. 701. FLOWERING BRANCH OF KI..*:A;MJS HORTKNSIS 



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