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I'unkia continued. 



in spring. The latter season is, perhaps, the most suitable, 

 as the mutilated parts then quickly heal. None but 

 strong, healthy clumps should be divided, and each 

 portion should comprise several crowns. The genus is in a 

 state of much confusion, from the number of garden 

 varieties and synonyms. 



F. Fortune! (Fortune's). fl., perianth pale lilac, funnel -shaped, 

 IJin. long, the lanceolate ascending divisions half as long 

 as the tube. July. I. six or eight to a stem ; blade cordate- 

 ovate, cuspidate, pale green on both sides, conspicuously and 

 persistently glaucous, furnished with ten or twelve arching veins 

 on each side, between the midrib and the margin, h. lift. 

 Japan, 1876. 



F. grandiflora (large-flowered).* jl. fragrant; perianth pure 

 white, nearly 4in. long, dilated gradually from a tube }in. 

 thick ; scape about 2ft. high, bearing a twelve to fifteen- 

 flowered raceme. July to September. I. ovate, with a slightly 

 cordate base, Sin. to 9in. long, 4iin. to 5in. broad ; petiole 1ft. 

 long ; edges incurved until they meet. Japan. SVN. /'. japonica. 

 (F. tl. S. 158 ; G. C. n. s., x. 629.) 



F. japonica (Japanese). A synonym of F. grandiflora, 

 F. lancifolia (lance-leaved). fl., perianth white or with a lilac 

 tinge, lin. to liin. long, dilated suddenly from a tube not more 

 than a line in thickness ; scape Sin. or 9in. high, slender, with the 

 raceme hardly, if at all, overtopping the leaves ; raceme Sin. to 

 5in. long, six to ten-flowered. August. I. green, lanceolate, 

 4in. to 5in. long, l^in. to 2in. broad, narrowed gradually towards 

 both ends ; petiole 6in. to 9in. long ; edges not incurved. Japan, 

 1829. (B. M. 3663.) F. albo-marc,inata only differs by its rather 

 larger flowers and leaves, slightly variegated towards the edge 

 with white. F. undulata is another garden form with irregu- 

 larly frilled or crisped leaves, which are copiously variegated 

 with streaks or large patches of white. 



F. ovata (ovate).* /., perianth bluish-lilac or white, liin. to 2in. 

 long, dilated suddenly from a tube in. in thickness ; scape 

 1ft. to lift, long, overtopping the leaves ; raceme ten to fifteen- 

 flowered. May. I. ovate, 5in. to 9in. long, Sin. to 5in. broad ; 

 petiole 4in. to 12in. long ; edges not incurved. Japan, Northern 

 China and Eastern Siberia, 1790. The commonest and best-known 

 species. SYN. Hemerocallis ccerulea. (B. M. 894.) 

 F. o. marglnata (margined).* A variety in which the leaves are 



broadly margined with white. 



F. Sieboldiana (Siebold's).* Jl., perianth white, with a pale lilac 

 tinge, 2in. to 2iin. long ; scape with the raceme not overtopping 

 the leaves ; racemes 4in. to 6in. long, ten to fifteen-flowered. June. 

 1. glaucous, broadly cordate-ovate, lOin. to 12in. long, Tin. to Sin. 

 broad ; petiole Sin. to 12in. long, edges not incurved. Japan, 1836. 

 See Fig. 61. (B. R. 1839, 50.) 



FIG. 62. FUNKIA SUBCORDATA. 



F. subcordata (sub-cordate).* /., perianth pure white, 4in. to 

 4iin. long, gradually dilated from a tube iin. in thickness; 

 scape lift, to 2ft. long ; raceme nine to fifteen-flowered. August. 

 I. cordate-ovate, pale green, 6in. to 9in. long, 3in. to 5in. broad ; 

 petiole 6in. to Sin. long. Japan, 1830. SV.NS. l/,;ncr<>caltis allm 

 (A. B. R. 194), //. cordata, 11. japonica (13. M. 



ginea. See Fig. 62. 

 FURCATE. Forked. 



. 1453), //. planta- 



(named in honour of A. F. Fourcroy, 

 1755-1809, a celebrated French chemist). SYN. Four- 

 croija. OLID. Amaryllidece. A genus of about fifteen 

 species of very noble greenhouse or stove plants, closely 

 allied to Agave, but with horizontally spreading perianth 

 segments. For culture, &c., see Agave. 



Fttrcraea continued. 



F. Bedinghausii (Bedinghausen's).* fl. greenish ; scape 12ft. to 

 15ft. high ; branches drooping. I. thirty to fifty in a rosette, 

 lanceolate, about 3ft. long ; margin minutely denticulate. Trunk 

 Sft. high. Mexico, 1860. SYNS. Roezlia regia, Yucca aryyrophylla, 

 Y. Parmentieri, Y. Toneliana. 



FIG. 63. FURCR^EA CUBE.NSIS, showing Inflorescence, with 

 Bulbils developed instead of Flowers. 



F. cubensis (Cuban).* fl. greenish. Autumn. I. twenty-five to 

 thirty in a rosette, bright green, rigid in texture, channelled 

 and smooth down the face, generally scabrous on the back, 

 the end a minute brown, scarcely pungent point ; edge armed 

 with regular hooked brown prickles. Tropical America, 1879. 

 One of the commonest and best known of all the species. See 

 Fig. 63. 



F. c. inermis (unarmed). This plant differs from the ordinary 

 F. cubensis by its less rigid leaves, and by the total or almost 

 entire suppression of the marginal teeth, which in the type are 

 very close and large, and armed with pungent horny brown 

 spines. Tropical America. (B. M. 6543.) 



F. elegans (elegant).* fl. greenish-white; scape 20ft. to 25ft. high. 

 I. forty to fifty in a rosette, lanceolate, 5ft. to 6ft. long ; prickles 

 brown, hooked, horny. Mexico, 1868. Plant stemless. SYNS. 

 F. Ghiesbreghtii, F. pugioniformis. 



F. flavo-viridis (yellow-green). /., perianth pale yellowish- 

 green ; tube incorporated with the obtusely triangular ovary ; 

 scape 12ft. to 14ft. high, naked below, but bracteated above, 

 forming a long, loose, racemose panicle. I. radical, more or less 

 spreading, and somewhat tortuose, lanceolate, pungently acumi- 

 nate, spinulose at the margin, h. 14ft. Mexico, 1846. (B. M. 

 5163.) 



F. foetida (fiutid). A synonym of F. giyantea. 



F. Ghiesbreghtii (Ghiesbreght's). A synonym of F. elegans. 



F. gigantea (gigantic).* fl. milk-white inside, greenish on the 

 back outside ; scape 20ft. to 30ft. high. I. forty to fifty in a dense 



