EUPHORIA 



less across), yellowish white, in puberulent terminal 

 and axillary panicles; calyx deeply 5-6-lobed; petals 

 about equaling calyx, spatulate: fr. globose, reddish or 

 purple, %in. or less diam., tuberculate or becoming 

 warty or nearly smooth, with an edible aril. India. 

 B.M. 4096. B.R. 1729. A much-prized fr. in China, 

 under the name of longyen, or linkeng, resembling 

 litchi but smaller and smoother and yellow-brown. 



L. H. B. 



EUPHRASIA (Greek for hilarity or delight). Scroph- 

 ulariacese. EYEBRIGHT. More than 100 low herbs, 

 of no special horticultural value although some of them 

 are mentioned in connection with alpine-gardening. 

 They are more or less parasitic on roots of other plants: 

 Ivs. opposite, dentate or incised: fls. small, largely 

 whitish or purplish, in terminal leafy spikes; calyx 

 mostly 4-cleft; corolla 2-lipped; stameus 4, didynamous, 

 ascending under the upper lip: caps, oblong, many- 

 seeded, dehiscent. The species range in temperate 

 and cold parts of the globe, several of them being N. 

 American. 



EUPTELEA (Greek eu, well, handsome, and ptelea, 

 elm). Trochodendracex. Ornamental woody subjects 

 grown for their handsome foliage; also the red anthers 

 of the precocious flowers are conspicuous in early spring. 



Deciduous shrubs or small trees: winter-buds con- 

 spicuous, with imbricate dark brown scales: Ivs. alter- 

 nate, slender-petioled, dentate: fls. before the Ivs., in 

 axillary clusters along last year's branches, perfect, 

 without perianth; stamens many, with large oblong- 

 linear, red anthers: carpels many, stipitate, oblique, 

 with a decurrent stigma, developing after the stamens 

 have dropped, growing into a small, slender-stalked 

 obliquely winged 1-4-seeded nutlet. Three species in 

 Japan, Cent, and W. China, and E. Himalayas. 



They are graceful bushy trees resembling the linden 

 in habit and foliage; the bright green leaves are very 

 slender-stalked, and the tree is conspicuous in early 

 spring from the bright red anthers of its flowers. E. 

 polyandra has proved hardy at the Arnold Arboretum 

 and possibly E. Franchetii is of the same hardiness. 

 They seem to grow well in a loamy well-drained soil 

 and prefer somewhat moist situations. Propagation is 

 by seeds or by grafting on their own roots. 



polyandra, Sieb. & Zucc. Figs. 1450, 1451. Shrub or 

 small tree, to 20 ft.: Ivs. long-petioled, usually round- 

 ish ovate, cuspidate, coarsely and irregularly dentate, 

 below pale green and slightly pubescent on the veins, 

 2-4 in. long: carpels usually 1-seeded, %in. long. April. 

 Japan. S.Z. 72. S.I.F. 1:41. Gng. 16:162. 



Franchetii, Van Tieghem (E. Davidiana, Hemsl., 

 not Baill.). Tree, to 40 ft.: Ivs. long-petioled, usually 

 roundish-ovate, cuspidate, fairly regularly sinuate- 

 dentate, light green below, 2-4 in. long: carpels usually 

 2-3-seeded. April. Cent, and W. China. H.I. 28:2787. 

 V.F. 9. 



E. pleiosperma, Hook. f. & Thorns. (E. Davidiana, Baill.). 

 Closely related to E. Franchetii. Lvs. glaucous below: carpels 

 somewhat larger. W. China, E. Himalayas. 



ALFRED REHDER. 



EURYA (Greek for large, but of no application). 

 Ternstrcemiaceae (or Theacese). Shrubs of S. Asia and 

 Malaya (30 or more species), with small dioecious fls., 

 berry-like frs., and simple, glabrous evergreen Ivs.: fls. 

 in axillary clusters, or rarely solitary; petals and sepals 

 5; stamens 15 or less (rarely only 5), joined to the base 

 of the corolla; ovary usually 3-loculed. Cleyera is by 

 some included in this genus. The euryas are allied to 

 camellias, and require much the same treatment. 

 They are grown for foliage rather than for fls. They 

 require an intermediate temperature and a peaty soil. 

 Prop, by cuttings taken from the tips of growing snoots. 

 E japonica, Thunb. (E. Siebbldii, Hort.), is the com- 

 mon species, and is very variable. The variegated form 



EURYOPS 



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of it (known in the trade as E. lalifdlia variegata) is one 

 of the best glasshouse decorative pot shrubs: Ivs. 

 variable in shape, usually ovate-acuminate and irregu- 

 larly toothed or notched, short-petioled, variously 

 blotched with white: fls. greenish white, in small, 

 axillary clusters. Japan. V. 23:5. L H B 



EUR YALE (mythological name). Nymphseacese. One 

 species, the Indo-Chinese representative of Victoria 

 regia, from which it differs in 

 having all the stamens fertile 

 (in Victoria the inner ones are 

 sterile) and in the very small fl. 

 and in other technical characters. 

 E. ferox, Salisb., is the species. 

 The Ivs. are 1-4 ft. across, circu- 

 lar, purple and spiny-ribbed 

 beneath, dark green and uneven 

 above: fls. about 2 in. broad, 

 open by day, prickly outside; 

 calyx reddish inside and the 20- 

 30 purple petals shorter than 

 the calyx-lobes; stamens numer- 

 ous: fr. a small many-seeded, 

 globular berry, bearing the re- 

 mains of the calyx on its top; 

 seeds edible. B.M. 1447. Long 

 cult, in China. Treated as an 

 annual. Has attracted little at- 

 tention since the intro. of Victo- 

 ria. Prop, by seeds only, which 

 are best stored in fresh cold 

 water. Plant in rich earth as 

 for nympheas, at 70-75 F. As 

 far north as Philadelphia and 

 St. Louis it is hardy, sowing 

 itself every season. It is feroci- 

 ously spiny. 



E. amazfmica, Poepp., still advertised 

 in catalogues, is Victoria regia. 



H. S. CONARD. 

 WM. THICKER. 



EIWYANGIUM: Ferula. 



EURYCLES (Greek-made 

 name, of no particular applica- 

 tion). Amaryllidacese. Two south 

 hemisphere tunicated - bulbous 

 plants, allied to H ymenocallis and 

 Pancratium. Fls. white or whit- 

 ish, umbellate on peduncles 12-18 

 in. long; perianth - tube cylin- 

 drical, the segms. oblong-lanceolate, ascending and nearly 

 equal; stamens inserted in the throat of the tube: Ivs. 

 broad and stalked, with prominent curving veins and 

 interlocking yeinlets. E. sylvestris, Salisb. (E. amboin- 

 ensis, Loud.).' BRISBANE LILY. Scapes 1-2 ft., bearing 

 an umbel of 10-40 handsome, creamy white fls. (2 in. 

 across): Ivs. round-cordate, with a very short, blunt 

 point; blooms in May and June in Eu., the Ivs. appear- 

 ing later. B.M. 1419 (as Pancratium amboinense). 

 B.R. 715 (as Pancratium australasicum) . R.H. 1879, 

 p. 456 and p. 457 (as E. australasica); 1913, p. 111. 

 G.W. 11, p. 583. G.Z. 24, p. 25. Malaya, Philippines, 

 N. Austral. Cult, apparently as for pancratiums. 



L. H. B. 



EURYOPS (large eyes, because of the prominent 

 fls.). Compdsitx, Small shrubs of 25-30 species of Afr. 

 (mostly S. Afr.), Arabia and Socotra, very little known 

 in horticulture. The fls. are yellow, the heads with 

 female rays and tubular 5-toothed perfect disk-fls.; 

 receptacle convex or conical; involucre of 1 series of 

 scales: achene wingless and beakless, the pappus of 

 several rows of caducous bristles. These little bushes 

 or undershrubs grow from ^-3 ft., or sometimes 5 ft., 



1451. Flowers of 



Euptelea polyandra. 



(Natural size.) 



