NOTHOSCORDUM 



NUPHAR 



2291 



NOTHOSCORDUM (Greek, false garlic). Liliacese. 

 Herbs having an onion-like bulb and closely related 

 to Allium. 



Bulb tunicated, without the onion odor and taste: 

 scape 6-12 in. high: rvs. several, linear, basal, 6-12 in. 

 long: fls. yellow or white, in an umbel; style obscurely 

 jointed; ovary 3-loculed; ovules several in each locule: 

 caps, oblong-ovate, somewhat lobed, obtuse. About 

 10-20 species mostly found in Trop. S. Amer., 1 in China 

 and at least 1 in N. Amer. The species in this genus are 

 variously placed under Allium and Ornithogalum by 

 some authors. 



bivalve, Brit. (N. striatum, Kunth. Ornithogalum 

 bivalve, Linn.). YELLOW FALSE GARLIC. STREAK- 

 LEAVED GARLIC. Bulb globular, 1 in. through, some- 

 times bearing bulblets at base: scape 1 ft. or less high: 

 Ivs. 7-8 in. high, -r^-^in. broad, flat, blunt, shorter 

 than scape or equaling it: fls. yellowish, 6-12 in an 

 umbel on slender pedicels, the segms. narrowly oblong, 

 4-6 lines long; ovules 4-7 in each cell. Early spring. 

 Va. to Ohio, Tenn., Neb., Fla., Texas, and Mex. 

 Hardy. Procurable from dealers in native plants. 



fragrans, Kunth (Allium fragrans, Vent.). Bulb 

 larger, round, yellowish white: lys. linear, obtuse, &-12 

 in. long: scape rotund, attaining height of 20 in.: 

 spathe 2-parted, shorter than pedicels: fls. fragrant, 

 8-20 in an umbel, white slightly blushed, lined dark; 

 stamens and anthers purplish. Subtrop. Amer. Not 

 very hardy; better treated as a tender bulb and dug up 

 in fall, planting in spring. A. C. HOTTES. t 



NOTONIA (named for an English botanist, Noton). 

 Composite. About a dozen fleshy herbs or under- 

 shrubs, of Trop. Afr. and Asia, by many botanists 

 included in Senecio. Heads discoid (without rays); 

 style-branches with ovate or lanceolate papillose 

 extremities: otherwise as Senecio: Ivs. rudimentary or 

 succulent, and the yellow or red heads rather large, 

 solitary or cymose. They are to be treated like kleinias 

 and various succulent tropical senecios; grown mostly 

 as oddities and little known to gardeners. 



N. amaniensis, Engler. Lvs. spatulate, fleshy, about 

 6 in. long and ^m. wide: scape rising to 4 ft., with 3 

 or more heads of yellow fls. on long reddish peduncles. 

 E. Trop. Afr. N. Grdntii, Oliver & Hiern. (Senecio 

 longipes, Baker. Klelnia Grdntii, Hook. f. N. sem- 

 pervirens, Asch.). Short fleshy glaucescent plant: st. 

 4-8 in. high from a tuberous root, decumbent, bearing 

 the peduncle at the summit: peduncle scape-like, with 

 a few linear scale-like Ivs. and bearing about 2 or 3 

 stalked orange-scarlet heads. B.M. 7691. G.C. III. 

 45:227. If this plant is the same as the Cacalia sem- 

 pervirens, Forsk., it must then bear the name N. sem- 

 pervirens, Asch. L jj g 



NOTOSPARTTUM (name from Spartium or broom). 

 Leguminbsse. Two shrubs, leafless at maturity, with 

 compressed pendulous branches, of New Zeal., one of 

 them more or less planted in Great Britain. Fls. papil- 

 ionaceous, rather small, in lateral racemes; calyx 5- 

 toothed, campanulate; standard obovate or obcor- 

 date, clawed and somewhat reflexed; keel hatchet- 

 shaped and obtuse; wings shorter than the keel, oblong, 

 auricular at base; stamens 9 and 1: pod linear and 

 many-jointed (and in this differing from Cannichaelia) . 

 N. Carmichselise, Hook, f . PINK BROOM. Much-branched, 

 to 10 ft. high, the branches glabrous and bearing alter- 

 nate scales, the Ivs. (only on young plants) 1-foliolate 

 and orbicular or obcordate : racemes 1-2 in. long, bear- 

 ing pink fls.: pod about 1 in. long. S. Isl. of New 

 Zeal. B.M. 6741. G.C. III. 42:146. Gn. 71, p. 428; 

 74, p. 143. A rare and local plant in New Zeal., 

 blooming there m summer (Dec.-Jan.). Hardy in the 

 open at the Kew Gardens, England. 



NOT^LIA (back and hump, alluding to a lump or 

 protuberance on the column). Orchidacese. About 20 

 Trop. American orchids of the Vandse group, little 

 grown. They need warmhouse treatment. Small low 

 plants, with plane coriaceous or fleshy Ivs. : fls. incon- 

 spicuous, white, greenish or yellow, on radical racemes; 

 sepals equal, narrow, erect or becoming spreading, free 

 or the 2 lateral ones connate; petals resembling the 

 sepals; lip unguiculate, entire, sometimes slightly 

 adnate to the column; pollinia 2, waxy, not appendaged. 

 N. bicolor, Lindl. "Whole plant not more than an inch 

 and a half high: Ivs. generally about 5, equitant, stiff, 

 acuminate, scimitar-shaped, scarcely half the length of 

 the fl.-spikes." Sepals white, and petals lilac with blue 

 spots at base, lip lilac: spikes drooping. Guatemala. 

 B.M. 5609. N. trisepala, Lindl. & Paxt. Epiphytic: 

 pseudobulb J^in. long, 1-lvd. : Ivs. oblong, to 3 in. : scape 

 pendulous, about J^ft. long, with a many-fld. raceme of 

 pale green very small fls. with scoop-shaped lip. Mex. 

 B.M. 8306. N. sagittifera, Hook. (Pleurothdttis sagit- 

 tifera, HBK. N. multifldra, Lindl.). Stemless parasite: 

 Ivs. distichous, deciduous, oval-lanceolate, nerveless: 

 spikes axillary, many-fld., cernuous, the fls. bright rose- 

 color. Guiana. L. jj. 3. 



NUPHAR (from the Arabic). Nymph&a of some 

 authors. Nymphaedcese. SPATTER-DOCK. YELLOW POND- 

 LILY. Several aquatic plants of the North Temperate 

 Zone, with stout rootstocks creeping in the mud. 



Leaves large, cordate-ovate or sagittate, some of 

 which may be submerged and others either floating or 



standing erect above 

 the water: fls. usu- 

 ally standing above 

 the water, yellow or 

 purplish, single on the 

 scapes, the 5 or more 

 large concave sepals 

 constituting the 

 showy part of the fl.; 

 petals mostly numer- 

 ous, small and simu- 

 lating stamens, the 

 latter numerous and 

 short; ovary short, 

 globular -ovoid, with 

 8-24 stigmas forming 

 rays on its top : f r. an 

 emersed caps. Most 

 of -the nuphars are N. 

 American. They grow 

 in stagnant pools or 

 on the margins of 

 slow - running mud- 

 bottom streams. Sev- 

 eral species have been 

 offered by dealers, but 

 most of them have 

 small value for the 

 cultivator, although 



$ e f ] ia S e effects f 

 J\ . advena may be 



striking. For cult., see Nymphsea and Aquatics. The N. 

 American species are monographed by Miller & Stand- 

 ley in Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. XVI, part 3 (1912). 

 The nomenclature is discussed under Nymphaea. 



A. Lvs. mostly cordate-ovate. 



B. Plants strong and large. 



advena, Smith. COMMON SPATTER-DOCK. Cow 

 LILY. Fig. 2536. Lvs. large (about 1 ft. long), varying 

 from roundish to ovate or almost oblong, thick, with a 

 deep and mostly open basal sinus, the lower surface 

 often pubescent; petioles terete; submerged Ivs. 

 usually wanting: fls. 2-3 in. across, more or less globu- 

 lar (not wide opening), yellow, mostly tinged with green 



2536. Nuphar advena. 



