SCUTELLARIA 



SEA-KALE 



3123 



(pale blue and white according to some). Wyo. and 

 Colo., and probably W. Neb. B.B. (ed. 2) 3:108. 

 Allied to S. resinosa. 



16. antirrhinoides, Benth. Resembles the larger- 

 leaved forms of 5. angu-stifolia, but has longer petioles 

 and the Ivs. mostly obtuse at base and also shorter and 

 broader fls. 7-10 lines long. Shady ground, N. W. U. S. 



Subsection LATERIFLOILE. 



17. laterifldra, Linn. A hardy perennial, increasing 

 by slender stolons, 1-2 ft. high: Ivs. ovate to lanceolate, 

 1-3 in. long: racemes axillary or terminal, narrow, 

 leafy bracted: fls. blue to nearly white. Moist soil 

 throughout the U. S. B.B. (ed. 2) 3:106. 



Subsection PTERILOMIOIDELE. 



18. Mociniana, Benth. A tender, moderately low, 

 shrubby plant, probably the most showy of the genus, 

 with opposite, long-elliptical, acute Ivs., and long, tubu- 

 lar, red fls. with a yellow throat, about l%in. long, in 

 dense, terminal spikes. Autumn. Mex. R.H. 1872:350. 

 G.W. 11. p. 127. G.Z. 13:2. According to Gn. 10, p. 

 606, the plants are of easy cult, with warm greenhouse 

 treatment and may be grown as bush specimens or in 

 smaller pots with a single St., when they will flower at 

 about 1 ft. in height. Cuttings are easily rooted. 



S. aurantiaca, Hort.. is offered in the trade. S. pulehilia, Hort.i 

 not Bunge, belongs to Section III and is closely related to S. indica 

 var. japonica, but the plant has more slender twigs, somewhat 

 smaller Ivs. which are short stiff-hairy on the upper surface and a 

 looser raceme with somewhat darker blue fls. Hab.(?). Gt. 6:296. 

 S. splendent. Link, Klotsch & Otto, belongs to Section II and has 

 broad ovate, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, crenate Ivs., with the 

 base cordate and both surfaces hirsute: raceme elongated: fls. 

 sparse; corolla scarlet. Mex. B.M. 4290 (as S. cordifolia). 



F. TRACT 



SCUTICARIA (Latin, scutica, lash or whip). Orchi- 

 dacese. Orchids remarkable for their long whip-like 

 leaves, which are channeled on one side. 



Xq evident pseudobulbs formed, but each shoot 

 terminating in a long, pendulous If . : Ivs. rather crowded 

 on the short rhi- 

 zome: fls. solitary 

 or several, on short 

 peduncles, in struc- 

 ture fls. resembling 

 Maxillaria, but the 

 plants are easily 

 distinguished by the 

 terete Ivs. ; sepals 

 and petals similar, 

 the lateral ones 

 forming a mentum; 

 labellum movable, 

 3-lobed, with large, 

 erect, lateral lobes; 

 pollinia on a trans- 

 versely elongated 

 stipe. Two species 

 from S. Amer. 



These plants re- 

 quire a temperature 

 similar to cat t leva 

 and laelia, but 

 should be grown on 

 blocks or in shallow 

 baskets in a mixture of equal parts peat fiber and sphag- 

 num. S. Steelii does best on a block, as the plant grows 

 downward in an inverted position. The compost should 

 be kept moist, particularly while the plants are in 

 action. They are propagated by division. (R. M. Grey.) 



Steelii, Lindl. Fig. 3581. Lvs. attain a length of 4ft., 

 as thick as a goose-quill: fls. on short scapes; sepals and 

 petals oblong, connivent, pale yellow, with chocolate 

 blotches; labellum large, cream-colored, striped with 

 brownish purple, at all seasons. British Guiana. B.M. 

 3573. B.R. 1986 (both as Maxillaria Steelii). 



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3581. Scuticaria Steelii. 



Hadwenii, Planch. Lvs. 1 H ft. long: fls. with spread- 

 ing sepals and petals oblong, sharply acuminate, yel- 

 lowish green, blotched with brown; labellum obovate- 

 cucullate, white with flesh-colored spots. Brazil. B.M. 

 4629. F.S. 7:731 (both as Bifrenaria H adwenii). G.M. 

 41:558. HEINRICH HASSELBRING. 



SCYPHANTHUS (Greek, beaker and flower, alluding 

 to the shape of the flower). Syn., Grammatocdrpus. 

 Loasdcese. Climbing pubescent half-hardy annual 

 herbs for outdoor border planting: Ivs. opposite, 2-3- 

 pinnatisect: fls. axillary, sessile, yellow; calyx-tube 

 linear-elongate, lobes 5, spreading, linear-spatulate; 

 petals 5, saccate, alternate, with smaller scales which 

 are hooded, 3-aristate and at base have 2 calli; stamens 

 very many, in 5 fascicles opposite the petals, staminodia 

 10, in pairs opposite the scales; ovary elongated, 1- 

 celled: caps, linear, upright, longitudinally 3-valved. 

 One or 2 species, Chile. 



elegans, Don (Grammatocdrpus volubUis, Presl). Sts. 

 herbaceous, climbing and twining, frequently branched: 

 Ivs. opposite, rough with minute deflexed hairs, the 

 lower ones bipinnatifid, the upper ones smaller and only 

 pinnatifid, all the segms. oblong, 1-nerved; petiole 

 short, channeled: fls. really sessile but appearing pedun- 

 cled from the elongated inferior ovary, terminal or 

 axillary, yellow, calyx-tube very long and incorporated 

 with the ovary, limb of 5 spreading, spatulate, leafy 

 segms.; petals 5, forming a cup, obovate-spatulate, 

 deeply saccate below the middle. B.M. 5028. J.H. III. 

 44:272. F. TRACT HCBBARD. 



SEAFORTHIA (Francis Lord Seaforth, patron of 

 botany). Palmaceae. A genus of palms, founded by Rob- 

 ert Brown on an Australian species, usually considered 

 as synonymous with Ptychosperma. The Seaforthia 

 elegans of cultivation, however, is said to be Archon- 

 tophrenix, mostly A. Cunninghamii and perhaps some of 

 it A. Alexandras; the original species described by Brown 

 as S. elegans becomes Ptychosperma elegans, Blume. 



According to Dammer (G.C. III. 31, pp. 18-20) the 

 true Ptychosperma elegans of Blume is met with but 

 rarely in European gardens. What is cultivated under 

 this name in most cases is either Archontopheenix 

 Cunninghamii or A. Alexandras. These archonto- 

 phoenixes "are decorative hardy palms, forming on the 

 Riviera very fine high-stemmed specimens. In youth 

 they form bifid leaves, the blade almost horizontal. 

 After having made some four to six such leaves, each 

 larger than the foregoing, there appears a fully pinnate 

 leaf, much differing in mode of growth from Phoenix 

 and other pinnatisect-leaved palms." Seaforthia 

 elegans, Hort., and Ptychosperma elegans, Hort., are 

 apparently sometimes Archontophaenix Cunninghamii 

 and sometimes A. Alexandra?. The last is very like 

 A. Cunninghamii, but, according to Dammer, differs in 

 its segments, which are green only above while under- 

 neath they are ashy -glaucous or white; it is well 

 figured in G.C. III. 31:19; also in B.M. 4961 as Sea- 

 forthia elegans. A. Cunninghamii is figured in B.M. 

 7345 as Ptychosperma elegans. The true Ptychosperma 

 elegans, Blume (Seaforthia elegans, R. Br., not Hort.), 

 with pinnules erose rather than acuminate at apex, is 

 figured in G.C. III. 31:21. 



In a recent study, O. F. Cook separates the plant 

 grown in California under the name of Seaforthia ele- 

 gans into a new genus, Loroma, making the species L. 

 amethystina; probably from Australia. He also retains 

 the genus Seaforthia for S. elegans, R. Br. 



SEA-KALE (Crambe maritima, Linn.) is a large- 

 leaved strong cruciferous perennial, the young shoots 

 of which are eaten in the spring, usually after having 

 been blanched. The plant is little known in North 

 America, but it is worthy of general cultivation in the 

 home-garden, for it supplies an esculent of good quality 



