312 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Schizostachyum elegantissimum Kurz. 



Java, at elevations from 3,000 to 6,000 feet. Unlike all other 

 Bamboos, this bears flowers at an age of three years, and is 

 therefore of special importance for scenic effect. Height up to 

 25 feet, stems stout. It requires, like many allied plants, renewal 

 after flowering. 



Schizostachyum Hasskarlianum, Kurz. 



Java. This and S. serpentinum afford the best kinds of Bamboo 

 vegetables for cookery, the young shoots, when bursting out of the 

 ground, being used for the purpose. Kurz mentions as culinary 

 " Rebong" Bamboos : Gigantochloa aspera, G. robusta, G. 

 maxima, G. atter. For ornamental culture the same meritorious 

 writer singles out Schizostachyum brachycladum, the varieties of 

 Bambusa vulgaris, with gaudy, glossy, colouring of the stems, in 

 contrast with the black-stemmed species of Phyllostachys from 

 China and Japan. 



Schizostachyum irratum, Steudel. 



Sunda Islands and Moluccas. Stems to 30 feet high, remarkably 

 slender. 



Schizostachyum Zollingeri, Steudel. 



Hills of Java. Much cultivated. Height up to 35 feet, stems 

 slender. 



Schkuhria abrotaniodes, Roth. 



From Peru to Argentina. This annual herb yields locally an 

 insecticidal powder. 



Schoenocaulon officinale, A. Gray. (Asa Graya officinalis, Lindley ; 

 Sabadilla officinalis, Brant and Dierbach.) 



Mountains of Mexico. A bulbous-rooted herb with leafless stem, 

 thus far specially distinct from any Veratrum. It furnishes the 

 Sabadilla seeds and yields two alkaloids, veratrin and sabadillin ; a 

 resinous substance, helonin ; also sabadillic and veratric acid. The 

 generic names adopted for this plant by Lindley and by Dierbach 

 are coetaneous. 



Sciadopitys verticillata, Siebold. 



The lofty and curious Kooya-maki>or Umbrella Fir of Japan, 140 

 feet high, pyramidal in habit. Resists severe frosts. Wood white 

 and compact. 



Scilla esculenta, Ker. (Camassia esculenta, Lindley.) 



The Quamash. In the western extra-tropical parts of North 

 America, on moist prairies. The onion-like bulbs in a roasted state 



