SCHIXUS 



Leaves alternate, pinnate; Ifts. sessile, axillary: 

 panicles terminal, bracteate: fls. small, whitish, with 

 short. 5-lobed calyx, 5 imbricated petals, broad annular 

 disk, and 10 stamens: fr. a globose drupe. About 17 

 species, all S. American except one in the Hawaian 

 I~l>.. one in Jamaica, and one in St. Helena. Only two 

 are cult. : they are semi-tropical and grown in the warm- 

 house at the E. and in X. Eu., in the open at the S. and 

 in Calif., as far north as the San Francisco Bay region. 

 Molle, the old generic name, is from Mulli, the Peru- 

 vian name of S. Molle, and not, as sometimes supposed, 

 Latin motte, soft, which would not be applicable in this 

 case. 



Schinus Molle is even-where present in southern 

 California, where it attains a height of 50 feet and sows 

 itself. It was a great thing for this region, in years past 

 before the water systems had reached their present effi- 

 ciency. Now the pepper-tree is under a ban, and justly 

 so. Next to oleander the pepper-tree is most subject 

 to black scale. Hence the pepper-trees, being large and 

 numerous, have been indirectly a serious menace to the 

 orchards of citrous fruits. Thousands of old trees, 2 to 3 

 feet in diameter, have been cut because of their prox- 

 imity to orange orchards. Los Angeles boasts some 

 magnificent avenues of them. S. terebinthifolius is but 

 little known in this region, the tallest tree being only 

 15 feet as yet, but it is likely to be extensively planted 

 in the near future. (Ernest Braunton.) 



M611e, Linn. PERUVIAN MASTIC-TREE. CALIFORNIAN 

 PEPPER-TREE. Figs. 3567, 3568. Evergreen tree, 20ft. 

 and more, with rounded outline and graceful, pendulous 

 branchlets when not trimmed: Ivs. 9 in. or more long, 

 glabrous, of many alternate, linear-lanceolate Ifts. 1^- 

 2 in. long: fls. in conical panicles, yellowish white: ripe 

 frs. the size of peppercorns (whence the popular, but 

 misleading, Calif ornian name), of a beautiful rose- 

 color. Peru. G.F. 8:505. R.H. 1889, p. 225. G.C. III. 

 17:588, 589. Gn. 25, p. 418. B.M. 3339. In S. and 

 Cent. Calif, more extensively cult, than any other 

 ornamental tree except, perhaps, the blue gum (Eucalyp- 

 tus globulus), and thriving best in the warm interior 

 valleys, though hardy on the coast at San Francisco. 

 Valued as a lawn and avenue tree; often plante_d as a 

 street tree, for which, however, it is unsuited, being too 

 spreading and branching too low. Molle was a generic 

 name used by Tournefort, and placed in apposition 

 with Schinus by Linnaeus (explained above). 



terebinthifdlius, Raddi, with racemose fls., Ivs. com- 

 posed of 7 broader, somewhat serrated Ifts. and scarlet 

 berries, is sparingly met with in cult, in S. Calif., and 

 proves hardy in San Francisco. Brazil. 



dependens, Ort. (Duvaua dependens, DC.), is a 

 shrub or small tree, with more or less drooping branches: 

 Ivs. ! 3 -l in. long, oblong or obovate: fls. yellow, 1 line 

 long, produced in great numbers in racemes about as 

 long as the Ivs.: berries black. W. S. Amer. B.M. 7406. 

 B.R. 1568 (Dumua ovaia); 1573 (D. dependens); 29:59 

 D. longifolia). The berries are said to be used medi- 

 cinally in Argentina. The genus Duvana was distin- 

 guished from Schinus chiefly by its simple foliage, but 

 it is now considered a subgenus' of Schinus. 



Jos. BTJRTT DAVY. 



SCHISMATOGLOTTIS (Greek, falling tongue, refer- 

 ring to the fact that the limb of the spathe soon falls 

 off.i. Aracfse. Herbs, with stoloniferous rhizomes and the 

 caudex above ground, grown in the warmhouse and also 

 adapted to culture hi the dwelling where a day tempera- 

 ture of 70 can be maintained throughout the winter. 



Leaves oblong or ovate-cordate, rarely hastate or 

 lanceolate, frequently marbled, maculate, or striped; 

 petiole sheathing at base or nearly to the middle: 

 peduncles solitary or fascicled: spathe cylindrical; 

 spadix sessile, included in the spathe, upper portion 

 male which is cylindrical or clavate, lower portion 

 female, shorter or narrower, cylindrical or conical, 



SCHISMATOGLOTTIS 3109 



sometimes the two are interrupted by an aborted male 

 area: fls. mono3cious, male perianth none; stamens 2-3, 

 distinct ; female perianth none, staminoids if present few, 

 ovary oblong. About 75 species, mostly natives of the 

 Malay Archipelago. Monographed by Engler in Bugler's 

 Pflanzenreich, hft. 55 (IV. 23Da), 1912. Among the 



3568. Foliage and fruit of Schinus 

 Molle. (XH) 



finest variegated foliage plants of the arum family and 

 hardly if at all inferior in beauty and ease of cult, to 

 the popular dieffenbachias, which they closely resemble. 

 For cult, see Dieffenbachia and also see Philodendron, 

 to which the genus is somewhat closely allied. 



A. Petiole shortly and broadly sheathed only at base. 



tecturata, Engler (Colobogynium tecturdtum, Schott. 

 S. variegata, Hook.). Lvs. oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 rounded at the base, long-cuspidate at apex, dark green 

 above, marked whitish along the midrib; petiole 3-4 in. 

 long or less than half the length of the blade. Borneo. 

 This species has been confused in the trade with S. 

 neogvineensis. 



AA. Petiole long-sheathed below. 

 B. Blade oblong-lanceolate; caudicle erect. 



concinna, Schott (S. LavdUei, Lind.). Lvs. lanceo- 

 late or lanceolate-oblong, rounded or narrowed at the 

 base but not cordate, blotched with silvery white, 

 some of the blotches much larger than others; petiole 

 6-8 in. long; blade 5-7x13^-2^ in.; sheath reddish. 

 Malaya. I.H. 28:418. Var. immaculata, N. E. Br. (S. 

 LavdUei var. Lansbergidna, Lind.), differs in having 

 purple sheaths and If .-stalks, and foliage green above, 

 dark wine-purple below. Var. purptlrea, N. E. Br., is a 

 Sumatran form with foliage blotched gray above and 

 dark wine-purple beneath. 



BB. Blade ovate, about 1J^ times longer than broad; 



base emarginate or subcordate. 



c. The petiole longer than blade. 



D. Upper surface of blade ashy-blotched. 



pulchra, N. E. Br. (S. decora, Bull). Lvs. ovate, 



obliquely cordate, irregularly blotched with silvery 



