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SCHIZOCENTRON 



SCHIZOPHRAGMA 



purple, nearly 1 in. broad: fr. very hairy, producing 

 seed freely by which the plant is readily prop, (or by 

 cutting). Vera Cruz, Me*. G.C. III. 42:293. Gt. 62, 

 p. 275. This species, although first described in 

 1839, has not been in cult, until since its rediscovery 

 in 1901 at Jalapa by J. N. Rose. It is a very dainty 

 plant, well worthy of ornamental cult. It is grown 

 to some extent in Mexican gardens at an elevation 

 of about 3,000 ft., where it does unusually well, 

 growing apparently as well in shade as in the bright 

 sunlight. The plant has been grown for a number of 



Sears in the N. Y. Botanical Garden, and when in full 

 ower makes a most striking display. It forms a dense 

 mat and is well suited for close carpet-bedding. 



J. N. ROSE. 



SCHIZOCODON (Greek cut and bell, referring to the 

 fringed corolla). Diapensiaceae. Glabrous herbs, with 

 the caudex perennial and scale -bearing between Ivs., 

 suitable for outdoor planting: Ivs. all radical, long-peti- 

 oled, ovate-rotund, base cordate, crenulate-undulate, 

 leathery and persistent: fls. few at the top of the scape, 

 racemose, subsecund, nodding, 1-2-bracted; calyx 5- 

 parted, the segms. linear-oblong, striate-nerved; corolla 



3570. Schizocodon soldanelloides. ( X H) 



funnelform, 5-lobed, the lobes truncate, fimbriate, and 

 imbricate; stamens 5; ovary ovoid-globose, 3-celled: 

 caps, globose, 3-angled. Perhaps 4 species, Japan. S. 

 soldanelloides is a pretty alpine plant or boreal with 

 rosy fls. fringed like the well-known soldanellas of the 

 Alps. It may be readily distinguished from Soldanella 

 (which is a member of the primrose family) by the Ivs. 

 being toothed, and the stamens 4 instead of 5. The 

 name "fringed soldanella" has been proposed for schizo- 

 codon, but all soldanellas are fringed. "Fringed galax" 

 would be better, as galax is the nearest relative, 

 schizocodon being, in fact, the Japanese representative 

 of the American galax. The Ivs. of schizocodon are 

 sometimes more or less bronzy, like those of galax, but 

 their form is not so pleasing. The plant is only a few 

 inches high, and the fls. are borne to the number of 

 4-6 on a scape. The scapes are numerous and the fls. 

 about 1 in. across. Since 1892 this plant has excited an 

 amount of interest comparable to that caused by the 

 intro. of shortia, in 1889. 



soldanelloides, Sieb. & Zucc. FRINGED GALAX. Fig. 

 3570. Hardy, tufted, alpine plant a few inches high: 

 Ivs. leathery, evergreen, long-stalked, the blade round- 

 ish, wedge-shaped or subcordate at the base, coarsely 

 toothed, the teeth apiculate: fls. nodding; sepals 5, 

 oblong, obtuse; corolla deep rose in center passing into 



blush or white at the edges; staminodes linear. Japan. 

 B.M. 7316. Gn. 44:418. G.C. III. 13:415; 51:348. 

 G.M. 36:206. J.H. III. 34:323; 44:347. V. 20:119. 

 This is probably the only species in the genus, as S. 

 uniflorus is Shortia and S. ilicifolius is thought to be a 

 variety of S. soldanelloides, with more variable Ivs. and 

 fls. ranging from red to white. Offered by many Euro- 

 pean dealers, and by one or two Americans ; little known 

 here. p. TRACY HUBBARD.! 



SCHIZOLOBIUM (Greek, to deave and pod, alluding 

 to the manner of dehiscence). Leguminosse. Tall trees 

 adapted to the warmhouse and planted outdoors in the 

 extreme South: Ivs. large, bipinnate; Ifts. numerous, 

 small : fls. in axillary racemes or in panicles at the ends 

 of the branches; calyx-tube disk-bearing, oblique, tur- 

 binate, the segms. slightly unequal, reflexed; petals 5, 

 clawed, ovate or rotundate, slightly unequal; stamens 

 10, free; ovary scarcely stipitate: legume compressed, 

 obovate, 2-valved, 1-seeded. One, possibly 2, species. 

 Brazil and Panama. 



excelsum, Vog. A tree reaching a height of 120 ft. 

 in its native habitat: Ivs. fern-like, with 18 pairs of Ifts. 

 which are about 2 in. long and 20-jugate, oblong, very 

 short-petiolulate, white beneath and golden pilose on 

 the midnerve: fls. yellow, in large panicles. Brazil. 

 R.H. 1874, p. 113. Intro, into S. Fla. and S. Calif. 



F. TRACY HUBBARD. 



SCHIZON6TUS: Holodiscus. 



SCHIZOPETALON (Greek, cut and petals, alluding 

 to the cut petals). Crutiferse. Half-hardy erect 

 annual herbs used in border planting: Ivs. alternate, 

 sinuate, dentate or pinnatifid: fls. purple or white, in 

 terminal, leafy-bracted racemes; sepals erect; petals 

 clawed, pinnate-lobed, involute: silique narrowly lin- 

 ear, knotty; seeds many. About 10 species, S. Amer. 

 S. Walkeri, Sims. St. weak, assurgent: lower Ivs. 4-5 

 in. long, sinuate-pinnatifid, elongate-oblong in outline, 

 long-attenuate at base, scabrous on both surfaces, dis- 

 tant: peduncles solitary, axillary, but collected at the 

 top into a raceme: fls. white; calyx cylindrical; petals 

 spreading, ovate, incise-pinnatifid. Chile. B.M. 2379. 

 G. 24: 240. 



SCHIZOPHRAGMA (Greek, schizein, to cleave, and 

 phragma, wall; the inner layer of the wall of the valves 

 is cleft into fascicled fibers) . Saxifragdceae. Ornamental 

 vines grown for their handsome bright green foliage and 

 their showy clusters of white flowers. 



Shrubs climbing by aerial rootlets: Ivs. opposite, 

 long-petioled, dentate or entire: fls. in loose cymes; 

 sepals and petals 4-5; stamens 10; style 1; ovary 4-5- 

 loculed; marginal sterile fls. consist only of 1 large 

 white sepal, terminating the branchlets of the infl.: fr. 

 a small, 10-ribbed caps. One species in Japan and 

 another in China, allied to Hydrangea and Decumaria. 



These are handsome woody vines with rather large 

 bright green foliage and loose terminal cymes of small 

 white flowers with large and showy sterile ones at the 

 margin. They are well adapted for covering walls and 

 trunks of trees and cling firmly by means of aerial 

 rootlets. The Japanese species is hardy as far north as 

 New York City, while the Chinese one is tenderer. 

 They thrive best in rich, moderately moist soil and 

 partial shade, but also do well in full sun if the soil is not 

 too dry. Propagation is by seeds or greenwood cuttings 

 under glass; also by layers. 



hydrangeoides, Sieb. & Zucc. Climbing to 30 ft. and 

 more: Ivs. on reddish petioles 2-3 in. long, orbicular or 

 broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, rounded or cordate 

 at the base, remotely and coarsely dentate, bright 

 green above, pale beneath, almost glabrous, 2-4 in. 

 long: cymes peduncled, 8 in. broad; marginal fls. 

 pedicelled, consisting of an oval to broadly ovate white 



