AMPELOPSIS 



THE BULB BOOK 



ANDEOCTMBIUM 



rotten fish and burnt sugar. {Bot. 

 ifrtf/. 1^7153-4-5.) 



A. ivariabllis {Brachyspatha varia- 

 hilis). — An East Indian fetid-smelling 

 species about 3 ft. high, with solitary, 

 much-divided leaves about 18 ins. 

 across, borne on spotted stalks. The 

 greenish-purple spathe encloses a 

 whitish spadix. (Gard. Chron. 1876, 

 120.) 



A. virosus. — A Siamese species 

 resembling A. campanvlatus, but 

 smaller. The spathes are pale green 

 spotted with white and edged outside 

 with purple. The inner surface is 

 purple and corrugated at the base, 

 creamy white in the centre, and 

 purple again towards the top, the 

 whole being about 8 ins. long, and 6 

 ins. across. The brownish or purple 

 spadix is about 7 ins. high, with a 

 roundish corrugated top or appendix. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 6978.) 



A. zeylanlcus. — This has a whitish 

 spathe spotted with green, and a 

 yellow spadix ; is also known a,s Arum 

 sylvaticvm, and Synantherias sylva- 

 tica, the latter being now the accepted 

 name. (Bot. Mag. t. 7190.) 



AMPELOPSIS (Ampelos, a vine; 

 opsis, resemblance ; in reference to the 

 vine-like appearance). Nat. Ord . Am- 

 pelideae. — There are only a couple of 

 species of garden note with tuberous 

 roots belonging to this genus, namely, 

 A.napiformis, with roundish corru- 

 gated roots, and five-lobed leaves, and 

 A. serjanimfolia (or A. tuberosa), hav- 

 ing dahlia-like roots, and palmately 

 lobed leaves. Both are climbers, the 

 first-named being a native of China, 

 the other from Japan. They are both 

 hardy, and ornamental in foliage, 

 like their relatives the Virginian 

 creeper (A. quinquefolia) and the 

 well-known .4. Veitchi. They flourish 

 in ordinary soil, and may be increased 

 by division of the roots, or by cut- 



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tings of the ripened wood in autumn. 

 They are generally referred to the 

 genus Vitis. 



ANCHOMANES (derivation un- 

 known). Nat. Ord. Aroidese.— A 

 small genus of hothouse tuberous 

 perennials closely related to Amorpho- 

 phalliis, and requiring the same 

 cultural treatment. Outside botanical 

 collections the plants are practically 

 unknown. 



A. dubius. — A fine species, having 

 thick, fleshy tubers, from which a 

 much-divided elegant leaf is thrown 

 up. The spathe is very large and 

 recurved, about 12 in. long, the outer 

 surface being a pale olive purple, the 

 interior glossy, cream-coloured. The 

 spadix is over 6 in. long, and f in. 

 thick, the upper five-sixths being 

 densely packed with creamy male 

 flowers, while the basal portion having 

 the female flowers is a dull purple col- 

 our (Gard. Chron., May 1885, 668, f.). 



A. Hookeri (Caladium petiolatimi). 

 — A remarkable plant from the Island 

 of Fernando Po, having poisonous 

 potato-like tubers marked with rings 

 and scars. The leaf -stalk is 3 ft. high 

 rounded, green blotched with purple, 

 especially below, where it is muricated. 

 The blade is divided into three 

 sprea4ing branches, each being again 

 divided into smaller segments. The 

 flower-stem is about a foot high, and 

 bears a boat-shaped tapering spathe, 

 6 to 8 in. long, deep velvety purple 

 within, but greenish-purple outside 

 at the base. (Bot. Mag. t. 3728.) 



The variety pallida is larger, with 

 prickly leaf and flower-stems, and a 

 wider and paler purple and green 

 spathe enclosing a white spadix, 

 having a deep purple base (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5394). 



ANDROCYMBIUM (aiier or andros, 

 a man ; cymbos, a cavity ; in reference 



