SCAPHOSEPALUM 



ish, thickly speckled with crimson ; dorsal sepal 

 broadly ovate, concave, strongly 5-ribbed, ending in a 

 stiff incurved tail; lateral sepals spreading horizontally, 

 talcately incurved, with a filiform process near the tip. 

 Colombia. B.M. 7165. 



Heinkich Hasselbking and Wm. 



SCARBOROUGH LILY. Vnllota purpurea. 

 SCARLET BUSH. Hamelia. 

 SCARLET LIGHTNING. Lyclmis ChahedonU 

 SCARLET PLUME. Euphorbia fulgens. 



SCHINUS 



1623 



A red-flowered variety of 



SCHAUfiRIA (after J. C. Schauer, professor at 

 Greifswald, 1813-1848). Acanthdceo}. Erect, half- 

 shrubby herbs, with entire Ivs. : fls. yellow or red, in a 

 terminal thyrse or spike; calyx 5-parted, segments 

 linear or setaceous; corolla-tube long, gradually broad- 

 ened upward; limb 2-lipped, the upper lip interior nar- 

 row, entire or emarginate, erect, lower lip cut into 3 

 subequal, recurved segments; stamens 2 each, with 2 

 parallel anthers, about as long as the upper lip; 

 aborted stamens wanting; style filiform: ovary seated 

 on a disk, 2-loculed, with 2 seeds in each locule. About 8 

 species from Brazil. Closely related to Jacobinia, from 

 which it differs by the equal parallel anther cells. It is 

 distinguished from Anisacanthus by its setaceous calyx- 

 lobes, and from Fittonia by its habit. 



flavlcoma, N. E. Brown (Jttsticia flAva, Hort., not 

 Kurz.). Pig. 2261. Half -shrubby plants, with erect, 

 branched stems, up to 4 ft. high: Ivs. opposite, petio- 

 late, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, shining green, undulate: 

 fls. light yellow, 1% in. long, borne in erect, feathery 

 panicles; calyx-lobes long, subulate, glandular-hairy, 

 persistent after the corolla has fallen. Autumn. Brazil. 

 B.M. 2816 (as Justicia calycotricha). B.R. 12:1027 (as 

 Justicia flavicomn). L.B.C. 20:1921 (as Justicia calli- 

 tricha). — This plant has been confused with S. caly- 

 cdtricha, Nees, and has long been cultivated imder that 

 name. S. calycdtricha, Nees, has a smooth calyx and 

 broader ovate Ivs. which are very obtuse or stibcordate 

 at the base. Heinrich HASSELBKrac. 



SCHEfiLEA (after Scheele, distinguished German 

 chemist). PalmAcem. About 10 species of pinnate palms 

 from tropical South America. They are spineless, tall 

 or dwarf: leaf-segments arranged in regular series or 

 grouped, linear, in young plants unequally and obtusely 

 2-cut at the apex: fls. yellowish, dioecious or monoecious, 

 the males very numerous in the upper part of the 

 branches, the females few or solitary in the lower part 

 and sometimes peduncled; petals of the males long- 

 club-shaped or cylindrical; stamens G, shorter than the 

 petals: fr. 1-3-seeded. 



butyracea, Karst. This species is cult, in S. Calif. 

 Pranceschi remarks that it comes from Venezuela and 

 is a magnificent palm with the habit of Attalea. H. A. 

 Siebrecht writes that it is rare in cultivation and that it 

 is more interesting than beautiful. On account of its 

 large stem base or crown, it requires so large a pot or 

 tub for the size of the plant that it does not make a 

 very ornamental subject. W. Ji. 



SCHEfiRIA (Frederick Scheer presented the original 

 species to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, he hav- 

 ing received them in 1850, through J. Potts, from Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico). Gesner&ceie. A name proposed for 

 four Mexican and tropical American herbs which are 

 now referred to Achimenes (which see). From Achi- 

 menes, Seeman, its founder, distinguished it "by its 

 truly infuiKlilniliform, not bilobed, stigma." In habit, 

 the genus suggests AcJiimcnes hirsuta, A. pedtoiculaia 

 and A. mutiiflura (see p. 18, Vol. I). In the American 



trade one species is offered, S. Mexic&na, Seem. (S. cm- 

 ruUscens, Hort. ), now more properly known as Achi- 

 menes Scheerii, Kemsl. Stem erect, hairy: Ivs. ovate, 

 hairy, dentate, stout-stalked, opposite: fls. solitary in 

 the axils, stalked, the corolla 2-2K in. long, the tube 

 inclined or drooping and curved, the wide-spreading 5- 

 lobed limb blue-nurple. Lvs. with a metallic luster. 

 B.M. 4743. L. H. B. 



5264. Schaueriaflavicoma(X3^). 

 Chiefly known to the trade under the name of 



SCHlMA (said to be an Arabian name). TernstrSmi- 

 Acew. About 9 species of tender evergreen trees and 

 shrubs, with 5-petaled white fls. about IM in. across. 

 Here belongs a neat little tea-like shrub about 2 ft. 

 high, known to the trade as Gordonia Javanica. Schi- 

 ma and Gordonia are closely related genera, distin- 

 guished by Bentham and Hooker as follows: Schima 

 has inferior radicles, sepals scarcely unequal, ovules few 

 in each locule and laterally affixed; Gordonia has supe- 

 rior radicles, sepnN itmrkt-dlv unequal, ovules numerous 

 in each locule ;iii.l h, ml iil.ii ^ 



Other generir . i i ^rhima: peduncles 1-fld., 



usually erect: 11- 1 1 ir axils or the upper ones 



crowded in a slnni r.i ■' mm ; i'if:i]s connate at the base, 

 imbricate, concave ; stamens numerous: ovary 5-celled 

 (rarely 4- or 6-celled); stigmas broad and spreading: 

 capsule woody: seeds flat, kidney-shaped. 



Nordnhae, Reinw. (Gorddnia Javanica, HoU.) . Tender 

 evergreen shrub, 2 ft. high or perhaps more, branched, 

 glabrous: lvs. alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, coriaceous, 

 entire: fls. solitary in the axils, white, IK in. across, 

 shorter than the lvs.; petals obovate. Java. B.M. 4539. 

 —A good pot-plant for the warmhouse. Readily in- 

 creased by cuttings. w. M. 



SCHtNUS (Greek name for the Mastic-tree. Pistacia 

 Lentiscus; applied to this genus on account of the resi- 

 nous, mastic-like juice of some species). AnacardiUceoe. 

 Resinous, dioecious trees, with alternate, pinnate lvs., 

 sessile Ifts., axillary and terminal bracteate panicles, 

 small whitish fls. with short, 5-lobed calyx, 5 imbricated 

 petals, broad annular disk, and 10 stamens: fr. a glo- 

 bose drupe. About 17 species, all South American ex- 

 cept one in the Sandwich Islands, one in Jamaica and 

 one in St. Helena. Only two are cultivated ; they are 

 semi-tropical and grown in the warmhouse at the East 

 and in north Europe, in the open at the South and in 

 Calif, as far north as the San Francisco Bay region. 



MoUe, the old generic name, is from MuUi, the Peru- 



