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S T U 



leaved Euphorbia — 'Meclusa's Htad Euphorbia — 

 Tilhvineloid Euphorbia, or Bastard Spurge. 



Gloxinia, one species. 



Slapeliri, ^'a^iegated Stapelia — Hairy Stapelia. 



BULBOUS KINDS. 



Ant/wlj/za, ^ihiopian Corn Flag; several 

 species. 



Cri?inm, Asphodel Lily — American Asphodel 

 Lily — Asiatic Asphodel Lily. 

 IJmodorum, Limodoruin. 

 Massouia, Broad-leaved — Narrow-leaved. 

 Pa/icrfitiiim, (V^ucr^Unm Lily) Sea Daffodil — 

 Ceylon UniHorous Fancratinni — Mexican Biflo- 

 rons Pancratium — Caribbajan Multiflorous Pan- 

 cratium — Amboyna Broad-leaved Pancratium. 



Some of these sorts of pianis are also inserted 

 in the green-house list ; as, where there is no 

 stove, Uiey may be preserved tolerably well in a 

 good greenhouse. 



STRAVVBEURY. See Fragaria. 

 STRAWBERRY BLITE. See Blitum. 

 STRAWBERRY SPINACH. See Blitum. 

 STRAWBERRY TREE. See Arbutus. 

 STRELITZIA, a genus affording a plant of 

 the herbaceous exotic perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Penlandria 

 Momgyiiia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Scitamini;ie. 



The characters are : that the calyx is an uni- 

 versal spathe, terminating, one-leafed, chan- 

 nelled, acuminate, from spreading declinmg, 

 many-flowered, involving the base of the flowers ; 

 partial spathes lanceolate, shorter than the 

 flowers: perianth none: the corolla is irregular : 

 petals three, lanceolate, acute ; the lowest boat- 

 shaped ; the two upper bluntly keeled : nectary 

 three-leaved ; the two lower leaflets a little shorter 

 than ihe petals, from a broad base awl-shaped, 

 waved at the edge, folded together, including 

 the genitals, towards the tip behind augmented 

 with a thick appendix, in form of half an arrow 

 head ; the lowest leailet short, ovate, compressed, 

 keeled: the stamina have five filaments, filiform, 

 placed on the receptacle: three in one leaflet of 

 the nectary; two with the style inclosed in the 

 other leaflet : anthers linear, erect, commonly 

 longer than the filaments, included : the pistil- 

 lum is an inferior irerm, oblong, obtusely three- 

 cornered : style filiform, length of the stamens : 

 sti^mas three, awl-shaped, higher than the 

 petals, erect, at the beginning of flowering time 

 glued together: the pericarpium is asubeoriaceous 

 capsule, oblong, obtuse, indistinctly three- 

 cornered, three-celled, three-valved : the seeds 

 numerous, adhering in a double row to the cen- 

 tral receptacle. 



The species is S. Regince, Canna-leaved 

 Strtlitzia. 



It has all the leaves radical, pctiolcd, oblong, 

 quite entire, with the margin at bottom waved 

 and curled, very smooth, glaucous beneath, 

 coriaceous, a foot long, permanent : the petioles 

 somewhat conipressed, three feet long and 

 more, the thickness of the thumb, sheathing, 

 erect, smooth : the scape the length and thick- 

 ness of the petioles, erect, round, covered with 

 aliernate, remote, acuminate sheaths, green with 

 a purple margin : the general spatlie a span 

 long, green on the outside, purple at the edge ; 

 partial spalhes whitish : the petals yellow, four 

 inches long: the nectary blue: according to 

 Curtis, the spathe contains about six or eight 

 flowers, which becoming vertical as they spring 

 forth, form a kind of crest, which the glowing 

 orange of the corolla, and fine azure of the nec- 

 tary, render truly superb. A native of the Cape. 



CiiMiire. — These plants are raised from seeds, 

 brought from their native situation, and sown 

 in pots of good fine mould, plunged in a hot- 

 bed to get them up; the plants when of some 

 growth should be removed into separate pots,^ 

 and be replunged in the tan-pit of the stove ; 

 afterwards, when the plants are large, they should 

 have plenty of mould, that the roots may be ex- 

 tended into the rotten tan, and in that way ren- 

 der them more strong for blowing their flowers: 

 it may likewise sometimes be raised from the 

 roots, when they are suffered to strike in the 

 above maimer; it is said to succeed best in the 

 dry stove and conservatory. 



It is highlv ornamental among stove plants. 



STUARTIA, a genus furnishing a plant of 

 the hardy deciduous flowering shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Monadelphia 

 Polyandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 ColiimnifercE. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianth, half-five-cleft, spreading; seg- 

 ments ovate, concave, permanent : the corolla 

 has five petals, obovate, spreading, equal, large: 

 the stamina have numerous filaments, filiform, 

 united into a cylinder below, shorter than the 

 corolla, connecting the petals at the base : an- 

 thers roundish, incumbent : the pistillum is a 

 roundish germ, hirsute : style simple, filiform, 

 length of the stamens: stigma five-cleft: the 

 pericarpium is a jniceless pome, five-lobed, 

 five-celled, soluble into five closed pirts : the 

 seeds solitary, ovate, compressed. 



The species cultivated is S. ISIaiacodendroit, 

 the Malacodcndron. 



It is a shrub, rising with strong ligneous stalks 

 to the height of ten or twelve feet, sending out 

 branches on every side covered with a brown 

 bark, and garnished with o\al spear-shaped 

 leaves, aboiU two inches and a half broad, sawed 



