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MACLURA 



MACROSCEPIS 



When dug, the osage plants have very long roots, and 

 the ends of these may be chopped off without disadvan- 

 tage. If the plants are held in bunches and the roots 

 chopped to an even length, the setting will be an easy 

 task. The tops will have been already cut off if treated 

 in the way above suggested. 



Beyond cultivation of the plants, nothing is required 

 the first year. By fall a good growth should have been 

 made, and toward spring this should be cut back, leav- 

 ing about 6 inches of the young growth. The season 

 following, more care must be given to forming a hedge. 

 When in full growth, say in July, shear off the tops of 

 the plants. This will cause the side shoots to develop; 

 and it is these side shoots which will form the base of 

 the hedge. Another light trimming should be given 

 when growth is over for the season, to bring the plants 

 into a hedge shape. Much the same work will be re- 

 quired every year, a trimming when growth is in full 

 swing to make the hedge bushy, and another later on to 

 shape it. 



The proper shape for a hedge is the conical form, 

 though it may be flat-sided or in any shape desired, 

 provided the upper branches never overlap the lower. 



Of late years a system of planting the osage orange 

 differing from the one described has been followed by 

 some. Strong two-year-old plants are procured and are 

 planted in a slanting position. As the new growth is 

 made it rises in an upright way as usual, and this pro- 

 duces a lattice-like appearance of the branches, and a 

 very strong hedge. It is certainly stronger than a com- 

 mon hedge, and yet a common one properly looked after 

 forms a defensive fence, meeting all requirements, and 

 costs not nearly so much as the other. See Hedges. 



JOSEPH MEEHAN. 



MAC ODES (from makos, length; on account of the 

 long labellum). Orchidaceae. A small group of orchids 

 of the habit of Anoectochilus. 



Terrestrial herbs, with few variegated petioled Ivs. 

 at the base, and small fls. borne in a long raceme: 

 sepals and narrower petals spreading; labellum ventri- 

 cose, with 2 small lateral lobes and 2 calli inside, 

 turned to one side; column short, twisted in the oppo- 

 site direction, with 2 narrow, erect appendages. Two 

 or 3 species, with cult, requirements similar to those of 

 Anrectochilus. 



Petola, Lindl. (An&ctochttus Veitchianus, Hort. A. 

 Petola, Hort.). Fls. greenish, inconspicuous: Ivs. ovate, 

 2-3 in. long, reticulated, with golden yellow veins. 

 Java. R.B. 21:61. G. 27:55. O.K. 17:73. 



javanica, Hook. f. Sts. creeping or suberect, 6-8 in. 

 long, rosy red: Ivs. 3 in. long, 2 in. wide, dark velvety 

 green above, with the nerves pale green and with white 

 reticulations, reddish on the lower surface: fls. orange- 

 red, white-tipped. Java. G.C. III. 39:216. B.M. 7037. 



GEORGE V. NASH.! 



MACROCHORDIUM (long or large tube). Bromeli- 

 acese. A few S. American plants usually referred to 

 ^Echmea. M. strictum, Beer, is referred by Mez to 

 jEchmea bromelwe folia, Baker. (See p. 222, Vol. I.) 

 The species is characterized by white-scurfy Ivs., simple 

 dense, woolly spikes overtopping the foliage: fls. with 

 yellowish green calyx and small exserted purple-black 

 petals. M. luteum, Regel & Lind.= Mchmea calyculata; 

 M. pulchrum, Beer, and M. tinctorium, De Vriese, also 

 =;Echmea bromelisefolia. 



MACROPIPER (long or large piper). Piperaceas. A 

 few shrubs of the Pacific Isls., by some included in 

 Piper, but separated by the monopodial rather than 

 sympodial growth of the flowering shoots, and by minor 

 characters. Probably none is in the trade, although a 

 form of the following is mentioned in recent horticul- 

 tural literature. M. excelsum, Miq. (Piper excelsum, 

 Forst.). Glabrous densely branched aromatic shrub 

 or small tree to 20 ft., in Tahiti, Norfolk Isl., New Zeal., 



and elsewhere: branches jointed and swollen: Ivs. 

 alternate, stalked, broad-ovate or broader, 7-nerved, 

 yellow-green, the petiole winged below: spikes dense, 

 solitary or in 2's, bearing minute unisexual fls. ; stamens 

 2 or 3; stigmas 3 or 4: fr. small yellow berries, densely 

 compacted. Var. aureo-pictum, Hort., has a large 

 cream-colored or yellow blotch on the If. G.Z. 21, p. 74. 

 For M. methysticum, Hook & Arn., and further dis- 

 cussion, see Piper. L jj. B. 



MACROPLECTRUM (Greek, long-spurred}. Orchid- 

 acese. Caulescent plants, in habit and cultural require- 

 ments like Vanda, with numerous distichous leaves, the 

 flowers with long spurs. 



Sepals and petals similar, spreading; lip rigidly at- 

 tached to the base of the column, entire; column short 

 and thick; pollinia 2, upon separate and distinct mem- 

 branous caudicles. Several species in Madagascar and 

 the Mascarine Isls. In. M . sesquipedale, the long spur 

 or tail-like appendage is sometimes 18 in. long. Darwin 

 predicted when he saw the plant first that a moth 



2293. Macroplectrum sesquipedale. 



would be found some day in Madagascar with a 

 tongue long enough to reach down to the nectar, and 

 it was, years afterward. 



sesquipedale, Pfitz. (Angrascum sesquipedale, Thouars. 

 Aerdnthus sesquipeddlis, Lindl.). Fig. 2293. Sts. 2-3 ft. 

 tall: Ivs. oblong-ligulate, 12 in. long and up to 2 in. 

 broad, unequally 2-lobed: peduncle 2-5-fld.; fls. 5-7 in. 

 across, fleshy, ivory-white; sepals and petals similar, 

 acuminate; lip oblong-ovate, cordate, acuminate, irreg- 

 ularly serrate. Madagascar. A.G. 13:217. A.F. 7:831. 

 Gn. 2, p. 5. F.S. 14:1413. B.M. 5113. G.M. 38:294; 

 47:494; 49:95. O.K. 9:49. C.L.A. 17:429. G. 18:365. 

 G.C. III. 45:399. Gn.W. 10:421. Gt. 58, p. 55. J.H. 

 III. 44: 337; 64: 393. 



Lednis, Nash (Angrascum Leonis, Veitch. Aerdnthus 

 Leonis, Reichb. Angraecum Humblotii, Reichb. f.). 

 Lvs. falcate, fleshy, equitant, flattened laterally: raceme 

 of 8 or less white fls., 2-3 in. across, on winged pedicels; 

 sepals and petals lanceolate; lip cordate, cuspidate; spur 

 4-6 in. long, curiously bent a part way down in the di- 

 rection of the fl. Comoro Isl. G.C. II. 24:80, 81. 



GEORGE V. NASH. 



MACROSCEPIS (Greek, long or large, and to cover). 

 Asdepiadacex. Tropical American climbers, somewhat 

 grown in the warmhouse. 



Tall twining, setose-hirsute: Ivs. opposite, large, 

 cordate: cymes crowded; fls. rather large and usually 

 showy; calyx about 5-parted; corolla-tube ovoid or 

 broadly cylindrical and constricted at the throat; 



