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NOTHOL.PENA. See Nothochlama. 



NOTHOLIRION. Included under Lilium (which 

 see.) 



NOTHOSCORDUM (from nothos, spurious, and 

 Scordon, Garlic; in reference to the near relationship 

 which exists between this genus and Allium). In- 

 cluding Caloscordum. SYNS. Hesperocles, Oligosma, 

 Pseudoscordum. OBD. Liliacece. A genus comprising 

 some half-a-score species of greenhouse or hardy bulbous 

 plants, of which one is Chinese, and the rest are found 

 in extra-tropical America and in the Andes region. 

 Flowers in terminal, many-flowered umbels, with tho 

 pedicels not articulated ; perianth marcescent, persistent ; 

 segments six, connate at base or in the middle, in many 

 cases spreading or campanulate-coaiiivent. Leaves radical, 

 linear, flat. Bulbs tunicated. For culture, see Allium 

 (in which, and in Milla, the species of this genus are, 

 by some authorities, distributed). 

 N. aureum (golden). A synonym of Blooineria aurea. 



FIG. 700. NOTHOSCORDUM FRAGRANS, showing Habit and 

 detached Single Flower. 



N. Iragrans (fragrant).* fl. white, witli a bar of very pale lilac on 

 the outer side of each division, fragrant, in umbels of from six 

 to twenty. Summer. 1. linear-lanceolate, h. IJft. to 2ft. North 

 America, 1822. A vigorous and handsome hardy species. SYN. 

 Allium f ragrans. See Fig. 700. (B. B. 898.) 

 N. inodorum (inodorous). JL whitish, with brownish-purple 

 streaks, scentless ; umbel lax, six to twelve-flowered. April and 

 May. I. all radical, narrow-lorate. Stem lift. high. Carolina, 

 1770. Hardy. (B. M. 1129, under name of Allium inodorum.) 

 N. macrostemon (large-stamened). A six to twenty to an um- 

 bel ; perianth pale lilac or whitish, iin. to Jin. deep, the base a 

 green cup ; pedicels erect ; anthers yellow ; scape lift, to 2ft. 

 long. Summer. I. developed with the flower, numerous, sub- 

 erect, fleshy, narrow-linear, 9in. to 12in. long. Buenos Ayres, 

 1875. Half-hardy. SYN. Milla macrostemon. 

 N. neriniflorum (Nerine-flowered). This is the correct name of 



the plant described in this work as Caloscordum' nerinatjlorum. 

 N. striatellum (slightly-striped), fl. greenish-yellow, umbellate ; 

 petals ovate, acute, striated ; peduncles erect. May. I. linear. 

 Chili. Half-hardy. (B. M. 2419, under name of Ornithopalum 

 ijramineum.) 



N. striatum (striated-leaved). /. white ; segments six, lanceo- 

 late, spreading. May. I. 7in. to Sin. high, radical, upright, 

 linear-lorate, striated, h. Sin. North-west America, &c. Hardy. 

 (B. M. 1055 and 1524, under name of Allium striatum.) 

 NOTIOPHRYS. A synonym of Platylepis (which 

 see). 



NOTOSPARTIUM (from notes, Southern, and 

 Spurtium, Broom; in reference to the Broom-like ap- 

 pearance of the plant, and its being a native of the 

 Southern hemisphere). OBD. Leguminosce. A most 

 curious monotypic genus, the species being a beautiful 

 and interesting, half-hardy or greenhouse, leafless shrub 

 or small tree, of Broom-like habit. "This, the 'Pink 

 Broom' of the residents in the Middle Islands of New 

 Zealand, is one of the most beautiful plants in the 

 Colony, and is further remarkable as being a member of 

 what is one of the largest families of plants in every 

 part of the world, except New Zealand. Indeed, the 



Notospartium continued. 



absence of Leguminosce in New Zealand, in contrast 

 especially with their great abundance in Australia, is the 

 most singular feature in the Flora of the Island " 

 (Hooker). It succeeds in a peaty soil, but can also 

 be well grown in turfy loam. No doubt the plant will 

 prove quite hardy in many places in Southern Britain. 

 N. Carmicheelise (Carmichael's).* fl. pink, rather small, in many- 

 flowered racemes ; calyx campanulate, truncate ; standard 

 obovate-obcordate, not auricled at the base ; wings oblong, with 

 an incurved auricle at the base, shorter than the keel. Branches 

 slender; branchlets pendulous, whipcord-like, h. sometimes 

 20ft. 1883. (B. M. 6741.) 



NOTYLIA (from notos, the back, and tylos, a hump ; 

 referring to a singular lump on the column). OBD. 

 Orchidece. A small genus of low, stove, tropical American 

 Orchids. About eighteen species have been described ; 

 but probably several of these are merely varieties. 

 Flowers mostly inconspicuous, racemose ; sepals narrow, 

 erect, or almost spreading ; lip unguicnlate and quite 

 entire. Few of the species are seen under cultivation. 

 They do best in small baskets full of peat fibre, potsherds, 

 and sphagnum, or attached to a piece of teak with a 

 little fresh sphagnum wired over base of plant. 

 N. albida (whitish), fl. greenish-yellow, small, disposed in dense 

 pendulous racemes 6in. long. April. I. cuneate-ligulate, oblong, 

 obtuse, acute. Pseudo- bulbs cspitose, small, compressed, 

 one-leaved, h. 6in. Central America, 1851. (B. M. 6511.) 

 N. bicolor (two-coloured), fl., sepals white ; petals lilac, with 

 blue spots at base, wider than the sepals ; lip same colour as 

 petals, free ; spikes drooping, 2in. to Sin. long. 1. about five, 

 equitant, stiff, scimitar-shaped, half the length of the flower- 

 spikes. Guatemala, 1866. (B. M. 5609.) 

 N. bipartita (bipartite). Jl. numerous, similar to those of a 



Dendiochilum. Mexico, 1880. 



N. punctata (dotted), fl. yellow, green ; sepals and petals obtuse; 

 lip obcuneate, unguiculate, acute, callous at base. h. 6in. 

 Trinidad, 1822. (B. R. 759, under name of Pleurothallis punctata.) 



NUCLEUS. The central part of the ovule in which 

 the embryo is engendered. 



NUNNEZHARIA. See Cliamredorea. 

 NUNNEZIA. See Chamsedorea. 



NUPHAR (from Naufar, or Nyloufar, the Arabic 

 name of Nymphcea). OBD. Nymphceacece. A small genus 

 (three or four species) of very beautiful aquatic, perennial 

 herbs, inhabiting the extra-tropical regions of the 

 Northern hemisphere. Flowers yellowish, rather large; 

 calyx of five or six concave, coriaceous sepals; petals 

 many, small ; stamens numerous, in several rows, ulti- 

 mately bent backwards. Leaves peltate, floating. 

 Nuphars are perfectly hardy, and thrive either in still 

 or in running water. Although they are sometimes 

 found at much greater depths, they perhaps succeed 

 best when their stout rootstocks are planted in mud, 

 with from Gin. to 12in. of water above them. If 

 the roots are fastened inside loosely-made wickerwork 

 baskets of rich soil, and these placed under water in 

 the spots where it is desired to have the plants grow, 

 no difficulty will be experienced. Unless the newly- 

 planted rootstocks are firmly fixed, they frequently 

 float to the surface of the water ; but, when treated 

 as above suggested, the roots soon form and fix them- 

 selves in the mud outside the baskets in which they 

 have been placed. N. pumilum is a charming little 

 plant, a much smaller grower than either JV. advena or 

 N. luteum, and, therefore, suitable for small pieces of 

 water where those species would prove too large. All 

 should be planted in full sun, as, although the plants 

 grow freely enough in shade, they only produce flowers 

 when allowed the full benefit of sunlight. 

 N. advena (stranger).* /. yellow, with red anthers, large, on 

 round stalks ; sepals six : petals many, small, shorter than the 

 sepals, never exceeding the stamens. Summer. I. erect, cordate, 

 with divaricated lobes, on half-round petioles. The leaves 

 and flowers of this species rise considerably above the surface of 

 the water. 1772. (B. M. 684, under name of Xymplaea, advena.) 

 N. Kalmiana (Kalui's). A synonym of N. pumilum. 



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