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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Livistona continued. 



species, proving quite hardy in Cornwall, and nearly so in many 

 less Southern districts. SYNS. L. mauritiana and Latania bor- 



bonica. See Fig 



FIG. 458. LIVISTONA CHINENSIS. 



u Hoogendorpil (Hoogendorp's). I. rich dark green, forming a 

 complete circle, much plaited, deeply divided ; petioles stout, 

 blackish-brown, inclosed in a network of r 



reddish-brown fibres 



and armed at the edges with long, stout, and sharp spines. 

 Indian Archipelago, 1874. See Fig. 459. 



FIG. 459. LIVISTONA HOOGENDORPII. 



L. humills (humble).* I. dark green, large, orbicular-cordate 

 spreading, deeply divided into narrow plicate segments, tapering 

 to a fine point ; petioles clothed at their edges with close-set spines. 

 h. 6ft. to 30ft Tropical Australia, 1824. A handsome species for 

 decorative purposes, when young. 



L. inermis (unarmed). A little-known plant, differing from 

 L. humilis principally in having the petioles entirely without 

 prickles. North Australia. 



L. Jenkinsiana (Jenkins').* I. rich dark green, fan-shaped, 2ft. to 

 4ft. across, plaited ; margin divided into somewhat broad se-- 

 ments ; petioles from 2ft. to 10ft. in length, somewhat keeled 

 below, flat above, armed at the edges with very stout, sharp 

 spines, which are slightly recurved, h. 10ft. Assam and Sikkim 

 1845. A beautiful greenhouse plant. 



L. mauritiana (Mauritian). A synonym of L. chine ns is. 



L. olivteformis (Olive-formed). 1. dark green, rather reniform 

 than flabellate, 2ft. to 3ft. from top of petiole to the margin, 

 divided into pendulous segments for about one-third of the len<*th- 

 petioles 2ft to 4ft long, stout, brown at the base, inclosed in a 

 tissue of dark brown netted fibres, armed with a few small red- 

 dish spines. Java. 



t. rotundifolia (round-leaved). I. dark green, with a sub- 

 orbicular blade 3ft. to 5ft, in diameter, palmato-multifid, the 

 elongate segments with bifid tips; petioles 6ft to 7ft. long, 

 margined with sharp spiny teeth. Stem 40ft. to 50ft. high. 

 Malay Islands, &c. Pretty, in a young state, for stove 

 decoration. See Fig. 460. 



LLAVEA (named in honour of M. la Llave, the 

 discoverer of the species). OBD. Filices. A monotypic 

 genus, the species being a stove fern. It requires a 

 compost of peat and sand, and plenty 

 of drainage. See also Ferns. 

 L. cordifolia (cordate-leaved), sti. 1ft. long, 

 strong, erect, fibrillose towards the base. 

 fronds 1ft. to 2ft. long, 6in. to 12in. broad, 

 tripinnate ; the lower sterile, with stalked 

 ovate segments, liin. to2in. long, iin. to Jin. 

 broad ; the fertile segments of the upper 

 part pod-like, liin. to 3in. long, sori linear, 

 occupying the whole length of the changed 

 pod-like segments of the upper part of the 

 frond ; involucre the same shape, rolled 

 over, and quite concealing the son. Mexico, 

 1853. SYN. Ceratodactylis osmundioidfg. 



LLOYDIA (named after Mr. Ed- 

 ward Lloyd, who first discovered the 

 plant in North Wales). SYNS. Nectarobo- 

 thrium, Rhabdocrinum. OBD. Liliacece. 

 A small genus (two species) of bulbous 

 plants, one of which inhabits the moun- 

 tains of Europe (Britain), Central and 

 Northern Asia, and North America, and 

 the other is limited to the Himalayas. 

 Flowers white or yellow, pedicellate. 

 Radical leaves one to three ; cauline 

 ones few, small. Stem low, slender, bearing one or two 

 flowers at the apex. Bulb narrow. L. serotina pro- 

 bably the only species known to cultivation is a rare 

 and pretty, bulbous-rooted, hardy perennial, requiring a 

 dry, sandy loam. Propagated by offsets, or by the 

 creeping shoots with a bulb at the extremity. 

 L. serotina Gate-flowering), fl. white, erect, solitary, veined 

 externally with green ; perianth inferior, of six nearly equal, 

 spreading, persistent segments. June. I. semi-cylindrical, those 

 on the stem dilated at the base. Stem 5in. to 6in. high. Rocky 

 ledges of Snowdon range, Wales; mountains and Arctic re- 

 gions of Northern hemisphere. SYN. Anthcricum serotinum. 

 (Sy. En. B. 1521.) 



LOASA (the native name in South America). In- 

 cluding Hlairea. OBD. Loasece. Some of the plants 

 formerly included here are now referred to Blumenbachia. 

 A genus comprising about fifty species of hardy or 

 greenhouse, annual or biennial, decumbent or twining 

 herbs, beset with stinging hairs, natives of tropical 

 America (except North Brazil and Guiana). Flowers 

 yellow, brick-red, or whitish, often showy, axillary, 

 solitary, racemose, or sub-paniculate ; petals five, cnoul- 

 late, equal, spreading, inserted in the top of the tube ; 



FIG. 460. LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLU. 



