ISATIS (meaningobscure) Cnielferce This includes 

 the Dyer s Woad / tinefona formerly cult tor a blue 

 dye but no lonf;er advertised t sesar relates thit the 



ISOLOMA 



with them to the base of the column, somewhat sigmoid 



below the middle column ere t loner without wmgs 



pollinia4 About 5 species m Hi 1' M nd W Ind 



lineins, R Br Slender 1-1 I f\ Ivs dis 



striate obtu i ni long 



s purple borne in a sli n | March 



rowing on rocks and trei ii il i I Jamaica, 



rinidad Brazil etc B K 9 74j L L L li 1J41 



H Hasselerino 

 IS6LEPIS See Sen pus 



ISOLOMA (equal botder) Gesner 

 li hiAeh lydwa btxty or more 

 ti I I il \merican plants, very closely 

 111 1 t Otesneria and Achimenes 

 I-i m desneria distinguished bv ab 

 sence of well formed tubers and thnr 

 acters of capsule and inthers and the 

 5 lobes of the disk e 111 1 ti iii \ liim 

 enes m the more 1 il i il r i 1 

 lobed disk Ihe ul 

 IS for Achiments ii 1 [ 



of thenewerhjbrids i | i i i\ 



and plants bloom tht sam \ tr It is 

 probable that the puie species aie not 

 in the trade Like Achimenes Ges- 

 nena and Gloxinii they have been 

 much hjbridized and varied It is 

 probable tha* they are hybridized with 

 Achimenes and Gesneria Tvdfea is a 

 garden genus It is not known how 

 the current forms have originated 

 Some of the recent ones have fringed 

 lis (Gn 55 1223) 



Tydaea( Idunutwipicta Benth Tij 

 rU I I /( 1) lie 1 lu lls-t One to 2 



I I lobes ob 

 1 lialf of the 

 " and red 

 I < f adapted 



1184. Isoloma Tydaa ( 



ancient Britons used the Woad for staining their bodies, 

 and the word Britain itself comes from an old Celtic 

 word meaning painted. Before indigo became common 

 in Europe, the Dyer's Woad produced the chief blue 

 coloring matter for woolen cloth. The introduction of 

 indigo in the seventeenth century destroyed this im- 

 portant industry, not without opposition. Dioscorides 

 and Pliny mention both the Dyer's Woad and indigo. 



/. tinclbria, Linn., is rather tall, glabrous and glau- 

 cous; stem-lvs. lanceolate, entire, sessile, somewhat ar- 

 row-shaped: fls. small, yellow, borne in early summer, 

 on panicled racemes. Instead of apod, opening length- 

 wise by valves, it has a closed fruit like on the samara 

 of an ash, 1-ceIled, 1-seeded. indehiscent, wing-like. It 

 is a biennial, and common in Europe. 



ISCHABUM. See i?(nr» Wi. 



ISMfiKE. Now referred to ITymenocallis. 



ISNARDIA. Includes a few species of Ludwigia. 



ISOCHiLUS (Greek, cgimnip). Orchidiceoe. A genus 

 of no commercial value. Plants epiphytic, with tall, 

 slender, leafy stems, without pseudobulbs, bearing a few 

 small fls. at the summit. Sepals erect, free, keeled ; pet- 

 als similar but plane ; labellum like the petals and united 



18-)0 to ^I f 

 Hook whi 1 

 See r S (, s, 

 plant, the tirs 

 parently not i 

 am&bile, Mottet {Ti/dwa am( 

 Erect, hairy: 1 



11 I , pula of 



I lilt r i.t jilant 



I M 41 I Ihis latter 

 Jsoloma pictum, is ap- 

 commerce. 



iVis, Planch. & Lind.). 

 or less tapering to the 



1185. Isoloma Jaliscani 



petiole, bluntly sen 

 hairy, pendent, dark i 

 Colombia. B.M. 4998 



te, purplish on the veins: fls. 

 se dotted with purple, paler inside. 

 R.H. 1859, p. 25. F. 8.10:1070. 



