ORIXA 



ORNITHOCHILUS 



2407 



ORIXA (Japanese name). Rutacex. Deciduous 

 shrub, with alternate petioled almost entire Ivs., and 

 grwnish ineonspiouous tlitveious fls. with 4 sepals and 

 4 minute petals, the staminate fls. in racemes, the pis- 

 tillate fls. sohtary: fr. 

 consisting of 4 dehiscent 

 pods, each containing 1 

 black subglobose seed. 

 It has proved hardy in 

 Mass., but has no dec- 

 orative merit except its 

 bright green fohage, 

 which is not attacked by 

 insects or fungi, and has 

 a strong disagreeable 

 odor like that of ptelea. 

 Orixa seems to grow in 

 almost any soil. Prop, 

 by greenwood cuttings; 

 also by layers and root- 

 cuttings and by seeds. 

 The only species is O. 

 japonica, Thunb. (Celds- 

 triis Orixa, Sieb. & Zucc. 

 Ilex Orixa, Spreng. 

 Olhera Orixa, Lam.). 

 Fig. 2077. Shrub, to 8 ft., 

 with spreading branches 

 pubescent when young: 

 Ivs. obovate to oblong, 

 obtusely pointed, entire 

 or finely crenulate, bright 

 green above, finely pu- 

 bescent beneath, trans- 

 lucent ly glandular-punc- 

 tate, 2—4 in. long: fls. 

 small, greenish: pods 

 about Jsin. long, light 

 greenish brown. April, 

 I.T. 3:101. 



Alfred Rehder. 

 ORMOSIA (from Greek, for necklace: the brilUant 

 seeds of some species used as beads). Leguminosse. 

 Neckl.^ce Tree. Trees, around the world in the 

 tropics, of 40 or more species, bearing large panicles or 

 racemes of white, lilac or black-purple papilionaceous 

 fls., and often handsomely colored seetls, planted some- 

 times in warm countries: calyx more or less 2-lobed, the 

 2 upper teeth being somewhat connate; standard very 

 broad, the wings obovate-oblong and obhque; stamens 

 free and unequal; stigma lateral: pod leathery, woody, or 

 fleshy, oblong to linear and compressed, wingless and 

 2-vaIved, sometimes septate: Ivs. odd-pinnate, with 

 coriaceous Ifts. 



monospenna, Urban (Sdphora monosperma, Swartz. 

 Or7>tdsiadasycdrpa, Jacks.). Fig. 2678. Offered abroad: 

 large tree: Ifts. 5 pairs, oblong and pointed, 3—4 in. long: 

 fls. blue, 5iin. long in large rusty panicles: pod IJ^^ in. 

 long, tomentose, 1-seeded; seed somewhat compressed, 

 irregular in shape, H^n. or more longest way, bright 

 scarlet with large angular black patch. W. Indies. 



Other species do not appear in accessible lists, but they may be 

 sparingly in cult. O. cocclufn. .lacks., of S. Amer., is in horticultural 

 literature: Ifts. ovate, the margins revolute: fls. blue: pod glabrous 

 and shining; seeds scarlet, witli black spot. T TT R 



ORNAMENTAL GARDENING, or omament.aI 

 horticulture, is that branch of horticulture concerned 

 with cultivating plants of all kinds for show and to 

 satisfy the eye rather than for food. It includes flori- 

 culture and also the culture of trees for shade and dis- 

 play. (The culture of trees on a large scale for timber 

 and for other profitable purposes aside from ornament 

 is forestrj'. The culture of trees in general is arbori- 

 culture.) Ornamental gardening includes carpet-bed- 

 ding and formal gardening in general, while laiulscape 



2677. Orixa japonica. C X H) 

 May. Japan. Gt. 35:1232. 



gardening is concerned with making nature-like pic- 

 tures, or at least with the general plan and setting of 

 the place; it also comprises all that part of floriculture 

 that aims to make grounds and gardens beautiful. 



ORNITHIDIUM (the diminutive for bird, from the 

 form of the flower). Orchidaccx. Epiphytic orchids 

 for the warm greenliouse. 



Stems leafy, covered with distichously imbricated 

 sheaths, the 1-lvd. pseudobulbs lateral: fls. medium or 

 small, solitary on peduncles which are fascicled in the 

 axils; sepals anfl petals similar, the sepals free, a little 

 larger than petals; lip 3-lobed, the lateral lobes erect, 

 sometimes inclosing the column; column usually short 

 and footless; pollinia 4, waxy. — About 20 species, in 

 Troji. Amer. 



densum, Rcichb. f. (Maxillaria densa, Lindl.). 

 Pseudobulbs oblong, compressed: peduncles densely 

 fascicled; sepals and petals yellowish, the column and 

 lip marked \vith rose. Mex. B.R. 1804. 



fragrans, Rolfe. Pseudobulbs ovoid-oblong: fls. few, 

 fragrant, white, faintly flushed with mauve; sepals 

 spreading, oblong-linear, rather acute, the petals some- 

 what connivent, lanceolate-linear, acute; lip 3-lobed, 

 dull mauve, the lateral lobes small, the middle lobe 

 reflexed, quadrate-oblong, truncate or emarginate. 



0. blcolor, Rolfe. Pseudobulbs ovoid, tufted: fls. bright yellow, 

 with a crimson blotch on the front lobe of lip. Colombia. 



George V. Nash. 



ORNITHOCEPHALDS (Greek, Hrd and head in 

 allusion to the aspect of the column). Orchidacex. 

 Epiphytic orchids, the most striking feature of which is 

 the long slender rostellum. 



Cespitose herbs with fleshy Ivs.: sepals and petals 

 free, spreading; upper sepal concave; labellum subsessile, 

 3-lobed, lateral lobes broad and thickened, middle lobe 

 elongated; cokmin short with the rostellum conspicu- 

 ously elongated; pollinia 4. — About 20 species from 

 Brazil to W. Indies and Mex. The geographical range 

 of the species herein described indicates an intermedi- 

 ate temperature. They may be treated like cattleyas. 



grandiflorus, Lindl. A dwarf compact epiphyte: Ivs. 

 distichous, oblong, obtuse, about ^i'm. long: scape from 

 the axil of the Ivs.; fls. small, whitish, about %m. 

 across, borne in racemes; 

 sepals and petals similar, 

 blotched at base with 

 emerald-green ; labelUun 

 3-lobed, somewhat 

 rounded, saccate, keeled 

 beneath. Brazil. 



2678. Seeds of Ormosia 

 monosperma. i, X 1 ) 



multiflorus, Rolfe. 

 Plant densely cespitose: 

 sts. 2% in. high, diphyl- 

 lous: Ivs. lanceolate or 

 oblong, somewhat fleshy, 

 about ^sin. long: raceme 

 slender, flexuose, 3,' 5 in. 

 long; fls. numerous, 

 white ; .sepals reflexed, ovate, concave ; petals spreading ; 

 labellum pandurate, obtuse, concave above the middle, 

 1^5 in. long, with a suborbicular callus. Brazil. 



Oakes Ames. 



ORNITHOCHILUS (Greek, bird .and labellum). 

 Orchidaceie. Ei)ipliytic herbs with leafy sts., similar to 

 Aerides: sepals .subequal, .spreading, oblong; labellum 

 spurred; infl. longer than the Ivs.; fls. yellow with 

 banils of brown; pollinia 2. — A few species from India. 

 O. fuscus, Wall. Lvs. subacute, narrowed to the sessile 

 sheathing base, about (i in. long, about 2 in. wide: infl. 

 longer than the lvs.; fls. small, numerous, in racemes, 

 greenish yellow, with bands of brown .and with the 

 liectinate lateral lobes of the labellum pur))le below; 

 sepals an<l petals oblong. Oakes Ames. 



