Cyclopedia of American Horticulture 



NABALUS. See Prenanthes. 



NJEGELIA (Karl von Naegeli, late professor of bot- 

 any at Munich). Gesnerdcece. About half a dozen 

 tropical American herbs allied to Achimenes, but the 

 fls. arranged alternately in a leafless terminal panicle 

 (in Achimenes the fls. are axillary). Because of the 

 panicled flowers, Nsegelias are very ornamental plants. 

 They are warmhouse subjects, propagating by stolons 

 or offsets. In cultivation the plants are oftener called 

 Gesnerias than Naegelias, but they are distinguished 

 from that genus in usually having an annular or ring- 

 like disk at the base of the corolla, rather than a deeply 

 lobed disk. Tubers usually none. Naegelias hybridize 

 with other Gesnerias. One hybrid race is known as 

 Nfflgelio-Achimenes and another (F.S. 10:987-8) as 

 Mandirola. L. jj. B. 



In general, the cultural methods given under Ges- 

 neria suit Nsegelias well. The bulbs should be stored 

 in the pots in which they have been grown. It is a bad 

 plan to keep any bulbs or tubers of the Gesneriacese in 

 dry sand in a dry store-room. After being well ripened, 

 Nsegelia bulbs should be kept in the greenhouse under 

 the benches. Keep them out of the drip, but water 

 them occasionally. T. D. HATFIELD. 



A. Fls. nearly scarlet, or brick-red, marked with 

 white. 



cinnabarina, Land. (Gesneria cinnabarina, Lind.). 

 Fine winter-blooming plant, l%-2 ft. tall, soft-hairy: 

 Ivs. round-ovate and cordate, crenate-dentate, thickish, 

 green, with red or purplish hairs: fls. about 1% in. 

 long, hanging on the ends of spreading pedicels, gib- 

 bous-tubular to the very base, the calyx-lobes acute and 

 spreading, the short corolla-lobes unequal and obtuse, 

 the flower cinnabar-red or nearly scarlet on the upper 

 side, but paler and spotted on the under side. Mex. 

 B.M. 5036. Lowe, 33. 



AA. Fls. orange-scarlet or scarlet, marked with 

 yellow. 



zebrina, Regel (Gesneria zebrlna, Paxt. ). Fig. 

 1454. Much like the above, but brighter colored, red- 

 dotted below, and yellow within and on the under side: 

 calyx-lobes short and appressed : corolla contracted 

 towards the base, whereas they are gibbous or swollen 

 to the very base in JY. cinnabarina. Brazil. B.M. 

 3940. B.R. 28:16. P.M. 271. -A fine plant, of which 

 there are several forms. The commonest species. 

 Names belonging here are Gesneria regalis and 

 G. splendens. 



achimenoides, Hort. Hybrid of ^V. zebrina and 

 Achimenes or Gloxinia (said to be with A. glox- 

 inifeflora) : fls. very large (often 2 in. long), yel- 

 lowish rose on the outside, yellow and rose- 

 spotted on the inside, the segments clear rose. 

 AAA. Fls. white, cream color or rose. 



amabilis, Decne. (JY. multifldra, Hook.). Fls. white 

 or cream color, numerous, hanging, the tube curved 

 and not much swollen, the obtuse lobes subequal: 

 plant bearing long, glandular hairs in addition to the 

 velvety covering : otherwise much like JV. zebrina. 

 Mex. B.M. 5083. F.S. 12:1192 (as Achimenes [Ncege- 

 lia] amabilis). G.C. III. 22:413. -The tenable name of 

 this species is usually held to be Hooker's JY. multi- 

 flont, which dates from 1858; but Decaisne's JY. amab- 

 ilis, or JY. amabilis, Hort., is older. 



hyacinthina, Carr. Of horticultural origin, probably 

 a hybrid: fls. white or rose, in a very compact pyra- 

 midal panicle. R.H. 1877:29. 



.V. fiiJgida, Ort. Fls. vermilion : Ivs. large, oval, deeply 

 toothed. Mex. N. Geroltidna, Regel. Continuous-flowering 



plant, allied to N. zebrina. Mex. F.S. 2:pl. 4, for April. N. 

 sceptre corail, Carr. Fls. many in an open panicle, cinnabar- 

 red, yellow-spotted inside. R.H. 1869. p. 154 and col. plate. 

 For pictures of varieties and hybrids, see F.S. 16:1671-2; 10, 

 987-8. L. H. B. 



N.BGELIO-ACHIMENES is a trade name mentioned 

 under Nvegelia. 



NANDlNA (Japanese name). Serberidacece. A 

 small, tender shrub, with bright red or white berries, 

 said to be cult, in every little garden in Japan. "At a 

 distance, says Keempfer, it has a reed-like appearance, 

 many simple stems springing up from the same root, 

 which are branched toward the top only, and are termi- 

 nated with a pyramidal panicle of red berries the size 

 of a pea." B.M. The stems are about as thick as a fin- 

 ger. The foliage is evergreen, and graceful at all times, 

 being twice or thrice ternately cut. The young growth 

 is prettily tinged with red, and the bases of the lower 

 stalks are often swollen into red globular bodies. 

 The fls. are small, numerous, white and panicled. 



1454. Naegelia zebrina. 

 Generally known as a Gesneria. 



This shrub is rarely grown North under glass. Pot- 

 grown plants or seeds are procurable from Japanese 

 dealers. The seeds are said to be of an uncommon 

 shape, being convex on one side and concave on the other. 

 The genus contains but one species. It is the only erect- 

 growing shrub in the barberry family outside of Berberis. 

 It agrees with the common barberries in having 6 stamens 

 and an indehiscent berry, but the fls. are differently 



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