SCANDIX 



SCHAUERIA 



3107 



SCANDIX (Greek, to sting, in reference to the rough- 

 ness of the fr.). Umbellifene. Glabrous or pubescent 

 annual herbs, one of them grown for foliage and bloom : 

 lv.-. pinna tely decompound, the segms. small and nar- 

 row: umbels composite, few-rayed, or now and then 

 simple (1-rayed); involucre none or 1-bracted: fls. 

 white, polygamous; calyx-teeth minute or wanting; 



petals often unequal, oblong, cuneate or obovate: fr. 

 oblong-linear, laterally compressed, long-beaked, pri- 

 mary ridges prominent, broad obtuse or filiform. About 

 12 species natives of temperate or subtropical regions 

 of the northern hemisphere. 



Pecten-Veneris, Linn. Fig. 3565. A hardy garden 

 annual 6-12 in. high, with finely cut Ivs. and small white 

 fls. in simple umbels. Eu. Little grown. 



S. cerefMium, Linn. See Chervil. 



SCAPHOSEPALUM (Greek, boat and sepal, alluding 

 to the form of the lower sepal). Orchidacex. A genus 

 separated from Masdevallia on the character of the 

 lateral sepals, which are united into a boat-shaped 

 organ. In habit the plants resemble masdevallias, 

 except that the parts of the rhizome are longer, thus 

 making the tufts less compact, and the racemes assume 

 climbing habits, becoming very long and bearing fls. 

 for months in succession. The dorsal sepal is free or 

 nearly so; labellum and sepal small. The genus con- 

 tains about 10 or more species. 



Grow in a coolhouse well protected from the sun. 

 Keep the summer temperature as low as possible. Give 

 plenty of water when growing. When at rest, water 

 sparingly but do not allow the plants to become entirely 

 dry. Use as small a pan as possible. The culture is like 

 that for masdevallia. (Wm. Mathews.) 



gibberosum, Rolfe (Masdevallia gibberosa, Reichb. 

 f.). Lvs. 3-5 in. long, oblong-obovate or lanceolate, 

 obtuse: peduncle 6-10 in. long, warty, bearing a loose 

 raceme of 4-8 fls. : dorsal sepal boat-shaped, with a long 

 tail, dull red, with strong, greenish ribs; lateral sepals 

 partly connate in a concave lamina, then spreading 

 horizontally, yellow, spotted with red and ending in 

 yellowish tails. Colombia. B.M. 6990. 



punctatum, Rolfe (Masdevallia punctata, Rolfe). 

 Densely tufted: Ivs. elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, 3-5 



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in. long: peduncles pendulous: fls. small, dull yellow- 

 ish, thickly speckled with crimson; dorsal sepal broadly 

 ovate, concave, strongly 5-ribbed, ending in a stiff 

 incurved tail; lateral sepals spreading horizontally, 

 falcately incurved, with a filiform process near the tip. 

 Colombia. B.M. 7165. HEINKICH HASSELBRING. 



SCAPHYGLOTTIS (Greek, boat and tongue, referring 

 to the hollowed labellum). Orchidaceae. Branched 

 epiphytic orchids grown in the wannhouse: new 

 branches borne annually at the apex of the old branch, 

 solitary or paired, sheathed at the base, 2-lvd. at apex, 

 finally fleshy thickened, forming pseudobulbs which are 

 linear or narrowly fusiform: Ivs, narrow, sometimes 

 linear, coriaceous: fls. in pairs or few in fascicles between 

 the Ivs. at the base of the innovation, small; sepals 

 erect and rather spreading, lateral broader than the 

 dorsal; petals similar to the sepals; labellum articulate 

 or continuous with the foot of the column, not divided 

 or obscurely lobed; column rather long, 2-auricled at 

 the apex; pollinia 4. About 15 species, Mex. to Brazil. 



alba, Rolfe. Sts. fascicled, narrowly spindle-shaped, 

 154-2 in. long, 2-lvd.: Ivs. linear, l%-2^ in. long, 

 minutely bilobed at apex: fls. small, white, in fascicles 

 of 3 or 4; sepals oblong, rather connivent; petals some- 

 what narrower; lip cuneate-oblong, nearly entire. 

 Hab.(?). 



S. Coffniauxiana, Wildem. A small species with narrow Ivs. 

 21 in. long: fls. greenish yellow; sepals acute, petals subacute. 

 Brazil S. stellaia, Lodd., differs from S. violacea in having larger 

 fls., with more spreading segms. and lateral lobes of the lip as large 

 as the middle one. Guiana. S. noticed, Lindl. Sts. terete, striated, 

 articulated: Ivs. 2-3 in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate: fls-violet, 

 minute; lateral sepals twice as broad as the dorsal; lip white, fleshy, 

 channeled. Guiana. B.M. 4071. B.R. 1901. 



SCKN6STOMA: Chxnostoma. 



F. TRACY HUBBABD. 



SCHAUERIA (after J. C. Schauer, professor at 

 Greifswald, 1813-1848). Acanthacex. Erect half- 

 shrubby herbs, of greenhouse cult., with entire Ivs.: 

 fls. yellow or red, in a terminal thyrse or spike; calyx 

 5-parted, segms. linear or setaceous; corolla-tube long, 

 gradually broadened upward; limb 2-lipped, the upper 

 tip interior narrow, entire or emarginate, erect, lower 

 lip cut into 3 subequal, recurved segms.; stamens 2 

 each, with 2 parallel 

 anthers, about as long 

 as the upper lip ; aborted 

 stamens wanting; style 

 filiform; ovary seated 

 on a disk, 2-loculed, with 

 2 seeds in each locule. 

 About 8 species from 

 Brazil. Closely related 

 to Jacobinia, from 

 which it differs by the 

 equal parallel anther- 

 cells. It is distinguished 

 from Anisacanthus by 

 its setaceous calyx- 

 lobes, and from Fittonia 

 by its habit. 



flavicoma, N. E. Br. 

 (Justicia flavicoma, 

 Lindl. Justicia flava, 

 Hort., not Kurz.) . Fig. 

 3566. Half -shrub by 

 plant, with erect, 

 branched sts. up to 4 

 ft. high: Ivs. opposite, 

 petiolate, ovate to 

 ovate -lanceolate, shin- 

 ing green, undulate: fls. 



light yellow, 1H in. 3566. Schaueria flavicoma, often 

 long, borne in erect, known to the trade under the name 

 feathery panicles ; calyx- of Justicia flava. ( x H) 



