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PHYLLANTHUS 



Xylophy'li 

 Hort.= v^ 



PHYLLOCACTUS 



!w. B.M. 5052. No:ir spor'k 



Otaheite Goose- 

 berry — Phyllanthus 



A. Foliage of large, broadly ovate-elliptical 

 gated Ivs., not pronouncedly distichous. 



nivisus, Smith. Snow-bush. Shrub of loose habit, 

 with darls wiry somewhat zigzag branches : Ivs. 1-2 in. 

 long, obtuse, white and green mottled: il. small, green- 

 ish, discoid, hanging by long pedicels from the leaf 

 axils. S. Sea Islands. "F.M. 1874:120. I. H. 25:332.- 

 Var. rdseo-pictus, Hort. Lvs. mottled with pink and red 

 as well as white and green. Gn. 10, p. 261. F. 1878, p. l.'i. 

 — Used in the house and for bedding out in summer. 

 AA. Foliage of narrowly elliptical or ovate, distinctly 

 distichous green lvs. 



£mblica, Linn. Emblio Mtrobolan. A much- 

 branched shrub or small tree: foliage branches with 

 many linear-elliptical, obtuse lvs., which are close to- 

 gether and %-% in. long: fls. small, short-pedicelled 

 in the axils of the lower lvs. : capsule baccate, %-l in. 

 in diam. E. Indian region. L.B.C. 6:548.-Fruit used 

 raw or preserved: foliage handsome. 



dlstichus. Muell. {Cicea dlsticha, Linn.). Otaheite 

 GoosEBEBRv. Pig. 1771. Shrub, with ovate acute Ifts. 

 1-2 in. long: Hs. on separate branches below the foliage: 

 fr. fleshy, edible. India and Madagascar. — W. Harris, 

 of Hope Gardens, Jamaica, W. I., writes that the Ota- 

 heite gooseberry is an elegant shrub or small tree often 

 cultivated in gardens in the lowlands of Jamaica and 

 the West Indies. The fruit is very acid and astringent; 

 the root is an active purgative, and the seed is also 

 cathartic. The fruit is occasionally pickled, or made 

 into preserves. Plants are raised from seeds. 



pilcher, Wall. (P. pallidifblius, Miill. P. glanc(s- 

 cens, Hort. ? lieidia gluuciseens, Miq.). A small 

 shrub: lvs. much like the last, but ovate-elliptical, K- 

 IK in. long, glaucous below: fl. small, red and yellow, 

 the pistillate near the end of the foliage branches, on 

 long pedicels, the starainate below; sepals laciniate: 

 capsule small, globose, puberulent. Java. B.M. .'54.1i. 

 G.P. 4:161. 



AAA. Foliage of flattened stems hearing scale-like 

 lvs. and fls. on the margin. 



specidBUS, Jacq. (P. arhiiscula, Gmel.). A small 



shrub: Horiferous branches, lanceolate, striate, creuiitc, 



in. long. Jamaica. B.M. 1021 (as Xylophylla lafi- 



PHYLLIRfiA. See Plullynu. 



PH-$'LLiTiS(r!iv,k,., ^.,^ f, 



on thr u|.i.i f .miIl ..1 ;i \ c nii. I .iii.l iIk; other on the 

 lowii- slilu of the veiulet next ubovu. 



Scolop^ndrium, Newman (Seolopfndrium vnlgdre, 

 Sm.). Hart's-tongue. Lvs. lO-l.'i in. long, heart- 

 shaped at base, 1-2 in. wide, growing in tufted clus- 

 ters. Widely distributed in Europe, where there are 

 many curious varieties in cultivation; and local on 

 coruiferous limestone in central New York ; also in 

 Canada and Tennessee. l. jj. Underwood. 



PHYLLOCACTtrS (Latm, phyllum a leaf from the 

 flattened leaf hlie stem) CaitHcea- Branches flat, two- 

 edged iieuite on tlit margins the crenatures bearing 

 tin Hinci ml In tl ritli r th m spines The fruit 

 I ft n ni..l I 11 imI1\ I\ tut without spines or 



w 1 \1 lit I 1 / 1 I 1 11 leeognized bv botan- 



M s in the catalogues 

 ut they are horticul- 

 tlie hybrid forms is 



folia). 



1772 One of the many hybrid Phyllocactl ( 



Tnhi of fl 4-S tn long floitiis uhite or yello 



iihiti Hitlun often rosy on the tube and outer 



jmls 4-lU tn m expansion 



b Style uhite 



grandis, Lem. \ ery large, sometimes 20 ft. long: 



lenis sh'uder, round or 2-edged, with flat, leaf-like. 



