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GODETIA 



GOMPHRENA 



sided, 8-ribbed. B.M. 5867. J.F. 318. A highly prized 

 species. 



G. decumbens, Douglas. Sts. ascending, strongly flattened, 

 whitish pubescent: ovary white-woolly. B.M. 2889. B.R. 1221. 

 Not certainly known in a wild state. Seed originally from Ore. 

 Differs little technically from G. quadrivulnera or its forms but is 

 quite unchanged in its characters after 75 years or more of cult, in 

 European gardens. It is an excellent illustration of the manner in 

 which many strains of the smaller-fld. godetias maintain their 

 slight but distinctive characters, although subject for many years to 

 the varying conditions of garden cult. G. magelldnica, Burbank, 

 a diffuse free-flowering species with lavender fls. the size of G. 

 amcena, has been recently intro. from Patagonia by Luther Bur- 

 bank. G. quadrivulnera, Spach. Erect, slender, pubescent: Ivs. 

 obovate to linear or the uppermost lanceolate and half-condupli- 

 cate: petals lilac or pale crimson, usually with a spot at apex, 4-6 

 lines long: caps, sessile, 4-sided, lightly 8-ribbed. B.R. 1119. 

 Occasionally cult., but probably not in the trade. G. Romanzdvii, 

 Spach, from the "northwest coast," not now known in a wild state, 

 has been cult, in Eu. nearly a century. Very leafy with young 

 parts white-pubescent: Ivs. oblong-oblanceolate. B.R. 562. 



W. L. JEPSON. 



1659. Godetia grandiflora, (Enothera Whitneyi of the trade. ( X H) 



GOETHEA (Goethe, the great German poet, 

 who was also a botanist). Malvacex. Two Brazilian 

 evergreen shrubs, seldom grown in hothouses. Lvs. 

 alternate, simple, entire or nearly so: fls. showy, in 

 cymes from the leafless sts. or sometimes solitary in 

 the axils, subtended by large cordate red showy calyx- 

 like bracts; calyx 5-toothed, included within the 

 bracts; petals short; stamens united in a column, 

 which is 5-toothed below the apex; ovary 5-celled, each 

 1-ovuled. G. .strictiflora, Hook. (G. cauliflbra, Hort.), 

 is a small shrub or bush with large ovate Ivs. sinuate 

 on upper half, and aggregated fls. in yellowish white 

 red-tinged bracts; petals small, obcordate, veiny; 

 calyx whitish or greenish, the lobes ovate-acuminate; 

 fls. on short-peduncles that are aggregated in the axils 

 along the st. B.M. 4677. J.F. 4:365. G. muLtiflora, 

 Nichols., and G. semper flor ens, Nees & Mart., belong 

 in Pavonia. L H B 



GOLDEN CHAIN: Laburnum vulgare. 



GOLDEN FEATHER: Chrysanthemum Parthenium. 



GOLDENROD: Solidago. 



GOLDEN SEAL: Hydraslis. 



GOLDFUSSIA: Strobilanthes. 



GOLD THREAD: Coptis trifolia. 



GOMBO, Gumbo, or Okra: Hibiscus esculentus. 



GOMESA (named in honor of Bernardinus Anto- 

 nius Gomes). Orchidacese, Stove epiphytes. 



Pseudobulbs 1- or 2-lvd.: racemes often many-fld., 

 lateral; sepals free and spreading, or the lateral approxi- 

 mate or connate; petals equaling or wider than dorsal 

 sepal; lip affixed to base of column, continuous, spurless, 

 the lateral lobes small; pollinia 2. About 5 or 6 species, 

 natives of Brazil. 



planifdlia, Klotzsch (Odontoglossum planifolium, 

 Reichb.). Pseudobulbs ovoid, 1^-2 in. long, 2-lvd.: 

 Ivs. 4-5 in. long: racemes exceeding the Ivs.; fls. fra- 

 grant, light greenish yellow; sepals and petals oblong, 

 acute, the lateral sepals united nearly to the apex; lip 

 shorter than petals, broadly oblong, acute, reflexed. 

 B.M. 3504 (as Rodriguezia) . G.W. 14, p. 517. 



G. Bindtii, Hort. Racemes 15-^30-fld. ; fls. small, orange, with 

 a white column. Brazil. G. Glazidvii, Cogn. Climbing: st. elon- 

 gated: pseudobulbs 2-4 in. apart: fls. light green. Brazil. 



GEORGE V. NASH. 



G6MPHLA: Ouratea. 



GOMPHOCARPUS (club-fruit). Asdepiaddcese. 

 Perennial herbs, or subshrubs, of more than 100 spe- 

 cies, mostly of the Old World, of which one has been 

 mentioned recently in horticultural literature abroad; 

 very closely allied to Asclepias, being distinguished 

 mostly by the absence of crests or appendages on the 

 hoods. G. textilis, Naudin, a warm-country species but 

 nativity unknown, is a semi-woody plant 3 ft. high with 

 slender branches: Ivs. opposite, linear-lanceolate: fls. 

 white, in terminal clusters, the lobes of the crown 

 violet: fr. large, obliquely oval in outline, bladdery, 

 pale green, long-hairy, to 4 in. long. R.H. 1902, p. 35. 

 Described as a showy and worthy plant for the border. 



L. H. B. 



GOMPHOLOBIUM (name refers to club-shaped pod) . 

 Leguminosse. Two dozen Australian yellow- or red-fld. 

 shrubs, rarely cult. Lvs. simple or compound, the Ifts. 

 mostly narrow: fls. papilionaceous, solitary, few or 

 in short racemes; standard orbicular or reniform, exceed- 

 ing the other petals; wings falcate-oblong; keel mostly 

 broader than the wings, obtuse; stamens free: pod very 

 wide or nearly globular, inflated, bearing small seeds. 

 They are said to be excellent greenhouse shrubs; prop, 

 by cuttings of young shoots. G. polymorphum, R. Br. 

 Glabrous shrub or undershrub, variable in foliage and 

 habit: Ifts. 3, but sometimes 5 or 7 or 9, digitate, mostly 

 linear, to 1 in. long: fls. orange-yellow to bright crim- 

 son: pod much inflated, ovoid-globular. B.M. 1533, 

 4179. H.U. 1, p. 166. B.R. 1574 (as G. venulosum, 

 Lindl.). B.R. 1615 (as G. tenue, Lindl.). B.R. 25:43 

 (as G. versicolor, Lindl.). L, jj_ B. 



GOMPHRENA (name suggested by Gromphraena, 

 Pliny's name for some amaranth, supposed to be 

 derived from grapho, to write or paint; alluding to the 

 highly colored or "painted" foliage). Amarantdceas. 

 Herbaceous plants grown as "everlastings." 



Herbs erect or prostrate, pubescent to villous, with 

 or without a leafy involucre : fls. short or long, white or 

 colored: bracts short or long, concave, and keeled, 

 winged or crested on the back. About 70 species, 

 mostly in the warmer parts of Amer. and Austral., 

 but the globe amaranth is widely dispersed throughout 

 the tropics. For cult., see Annuals and Everlastings. 



