1XXX GARDEN BOTANY. 



C. Libani, CEDAR OF LEBANON, with dark green foliage, horizontal 

 side-branches, and terminal shoot, erect. Not hardy northward. 



C. Deodara,' DEODAR, of the Himalayas, is a nearly related species or 

 marked variety, with pale glaucous foliage, lighter spray, and drooping lead- 

 ing shoots, unfortunately little if any more hardy here. 



ORDER CYCADACE.. CYCAS FAMILY. 



1. - Cycas revoluta, a plant with the aspect of a Palm, and wrongly called 

 Sago Palm, represents this singular order in our conservatories, but endures the 

 winter on the coast of the Southern States. The pistillate plant only is met 

 with : the large obovate ovules are naked on the margins of reduced pinnate 

 leaves, where they take the place of leaflets, and grow into red drupe-liko 

 seeds as large as hickory-nuts or larger. 



ORDER ARACEJE. ARUM FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 426. The familiar cultivated representative of the order is, 



1. Richardia Africana, called EGYPTIAN or ^ETHIOPIAN CALLA, but a 

 native of Cape of Good Hope, largely cultivated for its ample sagittate green 

 leaves and showy white one-leaved spathe, both on long radical stalks, the 

 latter convolute at its base around the cylindrical spadix, which is thickly 

 covered below with minute pistils, above with yellow anthers. 



2. Colocasia antiquorum is a kind of huge Arum, raised in greenhouses, 

 or planted out in moist places in summer, for its immense sagittate-ovate and 

 peltate leaves, sometimes variegated in color. The flowers are uncommon 

 and insignificant; the spadix enclosed in a greenish spathe, pistillate at the 

 base, neutral for a small distance, then staminate, and the summit slender 

 and naked. 



ORDER CANNACEJE. CANNA or ARROWROOT FAMILY. 



Known by its irregular flowers with an inferior 3-celled ovary, and only one 

 good stamen (free from the style), its anther one-celled. Tropical plants ; two 

 are cultivated for ornament. 



1. Canna Indica, INDIAN SHOT (so called from the round hard seeds) : 

 tuberous-rooted, planted out in summer; the stems sheathed with the bases 

 of the large oblong pointed leaves, the nerves of which spring from the mid- 

 rib ; flowers red, or yellow towards the base ; pod rough or warty, several- 

 seeded. 



2. Maranta zebrina, rarely flowers, but is a magnificent leaf-plant in con- 

 servatories ; the oblong leaves 2 or 3 feet long being purple underneath, the 

 upper surface satiny and deep green with alternating pale stripes. 



ORDER AMARYLLIDACE^I. AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 455. Furnishes several common ornamental plants. 



A cup or crown on the throat of the perianth ; its 



Divisions short and broad : stamens included in the cup. . . 1. NARCISSUS. 

 Divisions long and slender : stamens exserted from the edge of the cup. 2. PANCRATIUM 



