NOTHOSCORDUM 



NUPHAR 



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NOTHOSCORDUM (Greek, false garlic). Liliacea'. 

 Herbs having an onion-like bulb and closely related 

 to Allium. 



Bulb tunicatcd, without the onion odor and taste: 

 scape G-12 in. high: Ivs. several, linear, basal, 6-12 in. 

 long: fls. yellow or white, in an umbel; style obscurely 

 jointed; ovary 3-loculed; ovules several in each locule: 

 caps, oblong-ovate, somewhat lobed, obtuse. — About 

 10-20 species mostly found in Troji. S. Amer., 1 in Cliina 

 and at least 1 in N. Amer. The species in this genus are 

 variously placed mider Allium and Ornithogalum by 

 some authors. 



bivalve, Brit. (A^. driatum, Kunth. Ornilhogalum 

 bivalve, Liim.). Yellow F.\lse Garlic. Stueak- 

 LEAVED Garlic. Bulb globular, 1 in. through, some- 

 times bearing bulblets at ba.se: scape 1 ft. or less high: 

 Ivs. 7-8 in. high, -1^2—361". broad, flat, blunt, shorter 

 than scape or equaling it: fls. yellowish, 6-12 in an 

 umbel on slender pedicels, the segms. narrowly oblong, 

 4-6 lines long; ovules 4-7 in each cell. Early spring. 

 \'a. to Ohio, Tenn., Neb., Fla., Texas, and" Mex. — 

 Hardy. Procurable from dealers in native plants. 



fragrans, Kunth (Allium fragrans, Vent.). Bulb 

 larger, round, yellowish white: Ivs. linear, obtuse, 8-12 

 in. long: scape rotund, attaining height of 20 in.: 

 spathe 2-parted, shorter than pedicels: fls. fragrant, 

 S-20 in an umbel, white slightly blushed, lined dark; 

 stamens and anthers purplish. Subtrop. Amer. — Not 

 very hard.v; better treated as a tender bulb and dug up 

 in fall, planting in spring. A. C. HoTTES.t 



NOTONIA (named for an Enghsh botanist, Not on). 

 Compdsitsf-. About a dozen fleshy herbs or undcr- 

 shrubs, of Trop. Afr. and Asia, by many botanists 

 included in Senecio. Heads discoid (without rays); 

 style-branches with ovate or lanceolate papillose 

 extremities: otherwise as Senecio: Ivs. rudimentary or 

 succulent, and the yellow or red heads rather large, 

 soUtarj' or cjinose. They are to be treated like kleinias 

 and various succulent trojjical senecios; grown mostly 

 as oddities and little known to gardeners. 



A', amaniensis, Engler. Lvs. spatulate, fleshy, about 

 6 in. long and '2in. wide: scape rising to 4 ft., with '.i 

 or more heads of yellow fls. on long reddish peduncles. 

 E. Trop. Afr. N. Grdniii, Oliver & Hiem. {Senecio 

 lOngrpes, Baker. Kleinia Grdntii, Hook. f. A'^. sem- 

 pervirens, Asch.). Short fleshy glaucescent plant: st. 

 4-8 in. high from a tuberous root, decumbent, bearing 

 the peduncle at the summit: ])eduncle scape-like, with 

 a few linear scale-like lvs. and bearing about 2 or 3 

 stalked orange-scarlet heads. B.M. 7691. G.C. HI. 

 45:227. If this plant is the same as the Cacalia senv- 

 ■pervirens, Forsk., it must then bear the name A^. sem- 

 pernrenti, Asch. L, jj. B. 



NOTOSPARXnJM (nanu- from Spartium or broom). 

 Legiiminbssi . Two shrubs, leafless at maturity, with 

 compressed jjendulous branches, of New Zeal., one of 

 them more or less ])lanted in CJreat Britain. Fls. papil- 

 ionaceous, rather small, in lateral racemes; caljTi 5- 

 toothed, campanulate; standard obovate or obcor- 

 date, clawed and somewhat reflexed; keel hatchet- 

 shaped and obtu.se; wings shorter than the keel, oblong, 

 auricular at base; stamens (t and 1: i)od linear and 

 many-jointed (and in this flifTering from Carmichielia). 

 \ .Carmichklis-, Hook.f. Pink Broom. Much-branched, 

 to 10 ft. high, the branches glabrous and bearing alter- 

 nate scales, the lvs. (only on yotmg plants) 1-foliolate 

 and orbicular or obconlate: racemes 1-2 in. long, bear- 

 ing pink fls.: pod about 1 in. long. S. Isl. of New 

 Zeal. B.M. 6741. G.C. III. 42: 146. Gn. 71, p. 428; 

 74, p. 14:1 — A rare and local plant in New Zeal., 

 blooming there in svnnmer (Dec. -Jan.). Hardy in the 

 open at the Kew Gardcms, ICngland. 



NOT'^^LIA (hack and hump, alluding to a lump or 

 protuberance on the column). Orchidacese. About 20 

 Tro]). American orchids of the Vandie group, little 

 grown. They need wannhouse treatment. Small low 

 plants, with plane coriaceous or fleshy lvs.: fls. incon- 

 si)icuous, white, greenish or yellow, on radical racemes; 

 sepals equal, narrow, erect or becoming spreading, free 

 or the 2 lateral ones connate; petals resembling the 

 seiials; lip imguiculate, entire, sometimes slightly 

 adnate to the column; pollinia 2, waxy, not appendaged. 

 A', blcolnr, Lindl. "Whole plant not more than an inch 

 and a half high: lvs. generally about .'5, equitant, stiff, 

 acuminate, scimitar-shaped, scarcely half the length of 

 the fl.-spikes." Sepals white, and petals lilac with blue 

 spots at base, Up lilac: spikes drooping. Guatemala. 

 B.M. 5609. N. triscpala, Lindl. & Paxt. Epiphytic: 

 pscudobulb J 211. long, 1-lvd.: lvs. oblong, to 3 in.: scape 

 pendulous, about l^fi. long, with a many-fld. raceme of 

 pale green very small fls. with scoop-shaped lip. Mex. 

 B.M. 8306. A'^. sagillifera, Hook. (I'leurolhdllis sagil- 

 tifera, HBK. A^. multiflbra, Lindl.). Stemless parasite: 

 lvs. distichous, deciduous, oval-lanceolate, nerveless: 

 spikes axillary, many-fld., cernuous, the fls. bright rose- 

 color. Guiana. L. H. B. 



NUPHAR (from the Arabic). Nymphxa of .some 

 authors. Nymphseacese. Sp-\tter-Dock. Yellow Pond- 

 Lily. Several aquatic plants of the North Temperate 

 Zone, with stout rootstocks creejjing in the mud. 



Leaves large, cordate-ovate or sagittate, some of 

 which may be submerged and others either floating or 



standing erect above 

 the water: fls. usu- 

 ally standing above 

 the water, yellow or 

 purplish, single on the 

 scapes, the 5 or more 

 large concave sepals 

 constituting the 

 showy part of the fl.; 

 petals mostly numer- 

 ous, small and simu- 

 lating stamens, the 

 latter numerous and 

 short; ovary short, 

 globular-ovoid, with 

 S-24 stigmas fonning 

 rays on its top : f r. an 

 emersed caps. — Most 

 of the nuphars are N. 

 .\merican. They grow 

 in stagnant pools or 

 on the margins of 

 slow - running mud- 

 bottom streams. Sev- 

 eral species have been 

 offered by dealers, but 

 most of them have 

 small value for the 

 cultivator, although 

 the foliage effects of 

 A^. advena may be 

 striking. For cult., see Ngriipha-a and Aquatics. — The N. 

 .American species are monographed bv Miller & Stand- 

 ley in Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. XVL part 3 (1912). 

 The nomenclature is discu.ssed under Nymphsea. 



A. Lvs. mo.illi/ cordale-nvate. 

 B. Plants strong and large. 

 advena, Smith. Gommon Si'.\tter-Dock. Cow 

 Lily. Fig. 2536. Lvs. large (about 1 ft. long), var>-ing 

 from roundish to ovate or almost oblong, thick, with a 

 deej) and mostly open basal sinus, the lower surface 

 often pubescent; petioles terete; submerged lvs. 

 usually wanting: fls. 2-3 in. acro.ss, more or less globu- 

 lar (not wide opening), yellow, mostly tingeil with green 



2536. Nuphar advena. ( X H) 



