RASPBERRY 



doned before it becomes badly diseased. Spraying will 

 reduce it but is not entirely satisfactory. Crown-gall, 

 due to the growth of a specific organism of a very low 

 order, belonging to the slime-molds, is often serious, 

 p:irrieularly with reds. Neither, affected plants nor 



RAVENALA 



1503 



2082 Shaffer Raspberry— Rubus nsglectus (X '4) 



apparently healthy ones from a diseased lot shoi;ld be 

 planted, as the trouble is readily communicated to .other 

 plants and trees. PHED W. Card. 



EAT-TAIL CACTUS. Cereus flageUiformis. 



EATTAN. See Calamus. 



RATTLESNAKE WEED. See Sieracittm venosum. 



RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN. Goodyera. 



RATTLESNAKE ROOT. Prenanthes. 



RAUW6LFIA (Leonhart Rauwolf, physician of Augs- 

 burg, published a book in 1583 on his travels in the 

 orient; often erroneously stated to be of the eighteenth 

 century). Apoci/niicetc. About 40 species of tropical 

 trees and shrubs with Ivs. in whorls of 3 or 4, rarely 

 opposite, and small lis. often borne in dichotomous or 

 trichotomous clusters. Calyx 5-cut or 5-parted; lobes 

 obtuse or acute: corolla funnel-shaped; tube cylindrical, 

 dilated at the insertion of the stamens, usually con- 

 stricted at the throat, 

 devoid of scales; 

 lobes 5 : disk cup- 

 shaped or ring- 

 shaped : carpels of 

 the ovary 2, distinct 

 or considerably 

 grown together: style 

 short or long: ovules 

 in each carpel 2: 

 drupes 2, distinct or 

 connate into a 2- 

 stoned fruit, the 

 stones 2-grooved or2- 

 cut: stones 1-seeded: 

 layer of Raspberry, seeds ovate; albumen 

 fleshy, smooth, not 

 ruminate, rarely wrinkled. These plants are little known 

 horticulturally. The only species in the American trade, 

 apparently, is B. Chinensis, Hort. Several vears ago the 



undersigned received from the Botanical Garden at Hong 

 Kong a few seeds of this small evergreen shrub. The 

 seeds germinated well and the plants grew rapidly, 

 attaining a height of about a foot in a year. During the 

 summer of the second year the rather bushy plants 

 flowered well and bore a crop of shining red berries 

 which were very conspicuous throughout the winter. 

 When well grown and bushy the plant is quite orna- 

 mentii, its habit being dense and the color of its 

 leaves dark green. The flowers are white, and are 

 borne in dense trusses at the extremity of each shoot. 

 Though an individual flower does not make much show, 



the plant is very ( 

 of blossoms. The plant 11 

 water when in full growtl 

 fierce rays of the sun. Ev 

 be shaken out and repbi.-. 

 writer's garden nt Ontlia. 

 Rauwolfia flouri-^Iii--- witli 1 

 of other shrubs in i-ah. r 

 easily winter-kill, ,1, it >|. 

 the roots. When c.Airnl 

 hming red berries the pla 



covered with masses 

 lirli, light soil, much 

 rutrctiun against the 

 )- the old soU should 

 ■irl, compost. In the 



cuuty, Florida, the 

 airiance in the shade 

 pots. Although it is 

 adily in spring from 



object of beauty. 

 H. Nehrling. 



KAVENALA (the name of the plant in Madagascar). 



'itainindcetp. A genns of 2 species, 1 from Brazil and 

 Otuiana and 1 frcmi 5la.l:ii,Ms.'ar. Musa-like plants be- 

 coming 20-30 ft. liiL-li. with a palm-like trunk: Ivs. ex- 

 ceedingly large, <r..\\.li-.l in l' ranks, thus forming a fan- 

 shaped head of l.iliai:c ; juti.iles long, with concave 

 bases .scarcely sheathed: scapes or peduncles in the 

 upper axils longer or shorter than the leaves: bracts 

 spathe-like, many, boat-shaped, acuminate: fls. many, 

 large in a spathe or bract: petals long-exserted; sepals 

 free. fr. a 3-valved capsule. 



A. Lrs, slioHer tlian petioles. 



Madagascari^nsis, J. F. Gmel. Travelers' Tree, 

 so called from the clear watery sap found in the large 

 box-like cells of the leaf stalks and which iffords a re- 

 freshing drmk Fig 2084 Lvs often W ft high, mu- 

 sa-like, very large, fabrous fls white m ^pathes about 

 7 in. long Gng 5 153 V 23, p 1 d F s 21 2254. 

 A.F. 12 535 R H Ib'IO p l-,2 (t (_ III 2 (,<)3 A G. 





Travelers' Tree— Ravenala Madagascariensis 



