THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Kulodendron continued. 



P. Simsii (Sims').* /., spathe crimson, and in 

 tracted in the middle, and expanded in the upper part into i 

 white, oval hood, about Sin. long, rather exceeding the spadix 



ted at base, con- 

 the upper part into a 



we, ova o, o n. on, , 



nearly sessile. March. I. cordate-sagittate, above 2ft. long and 

 Uft. across, with large, raised, purple veins beneath ; petioles 

 rounded, IJft. long. Stem stout, erect. Caraccas and Guiana, 

 about 1825. (B. M. 2643, under name of Caladium grandifolium.) 



Fia. 109. PHILODENDRON SELLOUM. 



P. Sodlrol (Sodlro's). I. elongated cordate-ovate, with a very 

 obtuse sinus, short auricles, and a long-pointed apex, soft and 

 twisted, bright green, with large, interrupted, silvery spots: 

 nerves prominent and violaceous beneath; petioles depressed 

 above, violaceous, dotted with white. Tropical America, 1884. 

 An ornamental climber. 



FIG. 110. PHILODENDRON SPECIOSUM. 



P. speciosum (showy). /., spathe thick, purplish -green outside, 

 carmine within. I. triangular, oblong-ovate, deeply sagittate 

 light green. Stem tall, arborescent (when mature). South 

 Brazil. See Fig. 110. 



P. yerrucosum (warted)." I. cordate, of a delicate satiny-green, 

 shaded with metallic olive-colour on the upper surface, the under 

 part pale green, ornamented with bands of maroon ; the youn" 

 ones are of a bright chamois-colour, and the maroon bands 

 of the under parts penetrate through to the upper. Ecuador, 

 1866. One of the most brilliant species grown. See Fig 111 

 SYNS. P. Carderi, P. daguense (I. H. n. s. 79), P. Lindeni (of gar'- 

 dens, in part). 



P. Williamsii (Williams').* fl., spathes green, yellowish within, 

 thick, obtuse, apiculate, 1ft. long, surroundin^ a stout cylindric 

 cream-coloured spadix. 1. long-stalked, sagittate-acute, 1ft. to 



' 



PHILOGYNE. Included under Narcissus. 

 PHILOTHECA (from philos, smooth, and thelce, a 

 sheath; alluding to the smooth tubes of the stamens). 

 ORD. Rutacece. A genus comprising only a couple of 

 species of ornamental, erect, Heath-like shrubs, confined 

 to extra tropical and Eastern sub-tropical Australia. 

 Flowers terminal, nearly sessile, 

 solitary or two or three together ; 

 calyx segments and petals five, 

 the latter imbricate in bud; disk 

 slightly lobed. Leaves crowded, 

 alternate, narrow-linear. P. aus- 

 tralis, the only species intro- 

 duced, requires culture similar to 

 Phebalium (which see). 

 P. australis (Southern).* jl. pale red, 

 usually solitary, but sometimes two or 

 three together; sepals broadly tri- 

 angular; petals broadly lanceolate. 

 April. I. numerous, linear, obtuse, 

 rarely exceeding Jin.long.rather thick, 

 flat or channelled above, very convex 

 underneath, or almost terete. A. 2ft. 



FHILYDRACE2E. A very 

 small natural order of erect, ter- 

 restrial herbs, natives of Aus- 

 tralia, the Malayan Archipelago, 

 Eastern Asia, and the Pacific 

 Islands. Flowers inclosed in 

 spathaceous bracts, solitary, dis- 

 posed simply at the sides of a 

 rachis, or in a branched panicle, 

 hermaphrodite, irregular ; perianth 

 free to the ovary, and having four 

 segments in two series; stamen 

 one, opposite the posticous pe- 

 rianth segment ; filament com- 

 planate, often shortly connate at 



the base with the interior segments. Capsule ovoid or 

 oblong, three -valved, many-seeded. Leaves linear or 

 ensiform, radical or clustered at the base of the stem, 

 often distichous ; cauline ones few, smaller. The order 

 contains but four species, and these are split up into 

 three genera : Helmholtzia, Philydrum, and Pritzelia. 



FIG. 111. BRANCH AND DETACHED LEAF OF PHILODENDRON 

 VERRUCOSUM. 



PHILYDRUM (from phileo, to love, and hydor, 

 water). SYN. Garciana. ORD. Philydracece. A monotypic 

 genus, the species being a greenhouse biennial, rather 

 more interesting than ornamental. It requires a sandy 



