LOASA 



LOASE^ 



BLUMENBACHIA 459' 



pinnately lobed and crenate leaves 3-4 

 in. long. Flowers in August, coral-red, 

 about X^ in. across, with hooded or boat- 

 shaped petals into the cavities of which 

 the bundles of white stamens are de- 

 pressed during the day, but toward evening 

 spring up between the 5 pairs of yellow 

 awl-shaped staminodes. Outside the 

 latter are 3 purple-tipped scales. 



Culture dc. as above. The stems 

 attain a length of 10-12 ft. during the 

 season. The whole plant — stems, leaves, 

 and flowers — is covered with roughish stifl' 

 hairs mostly pointing downwards. 



L. Pentlandi. — A beautiful Peruvian 

 annual with leaves 4-6 in. long. Flowers 

 in early summer, 2 in. across, with orange 

 petals ; stalks about 4 in. long. 



Culture dc. as above. 



L. prostrata. — A trailing fiexuose 

 Chilian annual with stalkless, heart- 

 shaped, ovate, deeply angular leaves, and 

 yellow flowers in summer. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



L. vulcanica (i. Wallisi). — An annual 

 about 2 ft. high, native of Ecuador. 

 Leaves palmately 3-5-lobed and cut. 

 Flowers in summer about 1^ in. across, 

 white, with 5 erect scales or nectaries, 

 red barred with yellow and white. 



Culture Ac. as above. 



BLUMENBACHIA.— A genus with 

 12 species of erect or climbing herbs with 

 stiffish, stinging hairs, and opposite, almost 

 sessile or stalked, entire, lobed, or pinna- 

 tifid leaves. Floral characters almost the 

 same as in Loasa. The capsule when 

 ripe splits to the base into 10 valves. 



Culture and Propagation. — This is 

 practically the same as for the Loasas. 

 The plants flourish in ordinary good 

 garden soil in open sunny situations, and 

 may be used in the flower border in 

 masses. The seeds may be sown in the 

 open border where the plants are to 

 bloom, and the seedlings afterwards 

 thinned out. 



B. chuquitensis. — A Peruvian climber 

 with oblong lance-shaped pinnate and 

 deeply cut leaves. Flowers in September, 

 consisting of 5-10 boat-shaped petals,, 

 yellow inside, red outside. 



Culture dc. as above. Sticks, should be 

 placed to the plants for climbing. 



B. coronata {Caiophora eoronata). — 

 A graceful, tufted, erect biennial about 11 

 ft. high, native of ChUi. Leaves narrow, 

 twice pinnately cut into small segments. 

 P'lowers in summer, 2 in. across, pure 

 glossy white, with 5 hooded hairy petals,, 

 dotted inside. 



Culture dec. as above. 



B. insignis (Loasa jpalmata). — A 

 Chiliaa trailer about 1 ft. high, with 

 lower leaves 5-7 -lobed ; upper ones deeply 

 twice pirmatifid. Flowers in summer,, 

 about 1 in. across, white with reddish 

 scales. 



Culture dc. as above. 



GRAMMATOCARPUS. —This 

 genus contains only the following species, 

 which is also known as Scyphanthus 

 elegans : — 



G. volubilis. — A Chilian annual with 

 opposite or twice or thrice pinnately out 

 downy leaves. Flowers in summer, 

 axillary, sessile, yellow, calyx-tube linear 

 "elongate, 5-lobed. Petals 5, saccate, alter- 

 nating with smaller bristly scales. 

 Stamens numerous in bundles opposite 

 the petals. Staminodes 10, papillose, in 

 pairs opposite the scales. 



Culture and Propagation. — This is- 

 practically the same as for the Loasas 

 above. Seeds may be sown in cold 

 frames in autumn and the seedlings 

 wintered under glass until the end of the 

 following May. Or they may be sown iu 

 gentle heat in February and March, for 

 planting out at the same period. The 

 plants flourish in ordinary good and well- 

 drained garden soil, and as they climb 

 6-9 ft. high may be used for covering 

 treUises, arbours &c. 



L. PASSIFLORE.iE— Passion Flower Order 



This order contains mostly plants of climbing habit, with alternate lobed 

 leaves and lateral tendrils. They are remarkable for having a corona of 

 beautifully coloured radiating filaments between the petals and stamens. 

 Mowers regular, hermaphrodite or 1-sexed. Calyx tube persistent ; lobes 3 

 or more, leathery. Petals none or as many as the calyx-lobes. Stamens 3-5, 



