Saddle-tree. The stipules are large, oppo- 

 site, flat, and serve the function of scales 

 to the young buds, which are bent down- 

 wards, becoming subsequently erect, when 

 the stipules fall off. The flowers are large, 

 somewhat like a tulip in appearance; they 

 have a calyx of three deciduous segments 

 which are turned down, and a corolla of 

 six erect petals forming a kind of cup of 

 bell, and both sepals and petals are greenish 

 variegated with yellow and orange. The 

 fruits of the Tulip-tree do not split when 

 ripe, as those of Magnolia do. 



The noble appearance of this tree renders 

 it a great favourite in English pleasure 

 grounds, but the flowers are not produced 

 until it has attained an age of from twenty 

 to thirty years. In America the wood, which 

 is yellow or whitish accoruina: to age, is 

 employed by the Indians in the construc- 

 tion of their canoes, for which purpose 

 its lightness renders it available. It is like- 

 wise used by cabinet-makers, and by coach- 

 builders for the panels of coaches, &c. 

 The tree shares in the bitter tonic principle 

 common to most of the trees of the Mag- 

 nolia family. The foliage of the Tulip-tree 

 assumes in autumn an intensely briarht 

 golden yellow hue. [M. T. M.] 



LIRIOSMA. A genus of Olacaceaz, con- 

 sisting of a Brazilian tree with soft yellow 

 odoriferous wood, alternate elliptical gla- 

 brous leaves, and axillary flower-panicles 

 shorter than the leaves. The flowers have 

 a calyx adherent to the ovary, with a trun- 

 cate limb, and nine stamens, of which six 

 are sterile, petaloid, and bifid. [J. T. S.] 



LIS. (Fr.) Liliumcandidum. — ASPHO' 

 DELE. Hemerocallis flava. — D'ANGLE" 

 TERRE. Tris xiphioides. — DEGUERNE" 

 SEY. Nerine sarniensis. — DE MAI. Con- 

 vallaria majalis. — DE PORTUGAL. Iris 

 xiphioides. —DE SAINT BRUNO. Antheri- 

 cum Liliastrum. — DE SAINT JACQUES. 

 Amaryllis or Sprekelia formosissima. 

 DES ALLOBROGES. Anthericum Lilia- 

 strum. — DESINCAS. Alstriimeria Pele- 

 grinn., — D'ESPAGNE. Iris xiphioides. 



— D'ETANG. Nymphcea alba. — DESVAL- 

 LEES. Convallaria majalis. — ISABELLE. 

 Lilium testaceum. — JACINTHE. Scilla 

 italica. — JAUNE. Hemerocallis flava. 



— JAUNE DORE. Lycoris aurea. — MA- 

 THIOLE. Pancratium viaritimum. — 

 NARCISSE. Pancratium viaritimum ; also 

 Sternbergia lutea. — TURBAN. Lilium 

 pomponium. 



LISERE. (Fr.) Convolvulus arvensis. 



LTSERON. (Fr/> Convolvulus. — DE 

 MICHAUX. Pharbitis hederacea. — DE 

 PORTUGAL. Convolvulus tricolor. —DES 

 HAIES. Cahistegia sepium. — EPINEUX. 

 Smilax aspera. — GRAND. Calystegia 

 sepium. — NOIR. Polygonum Convolvulus. 



— PETIT. Convolvulus arvensis. — SATINE". 

 Convolvulus Cneorum. 



LTSET. (Fr. - ) Convolvulus arvensis. 



— PIQUANT. Smilax aspera. 

 LISIANTHUS. A genus of Gentianaceo?, 



consisting of tropical American herbs or 



uudershrubs, with decussate sessile or 

 stalked ribbed leaves. The flowers are 

 more or less clustered, axillary or terminal ; 

 the calyx bell-shaped, with five erect seg- 

 ments, membranous at their edges ; the 

 corolla funnel-shaped, purple red blue or 

 yellowish-green in colour, withering on 

 the plant, its tube slightlv irregular ; the 

 stamens five, within the corolla, the an- 

 thers ultimately rolled back; the capsule 

 two-celled. 



The flowers of L. Eussellianus are very 

 handsome ; while those of L. princeps are 

 described as constituting the plant one of 

 the noblest in existence. It is a green- 

 house shrub with long hanging flowers of 

 a rich scarlet melting into yellow at either 

 end, and having an emerald green five- 

 lobed limb. [M. T. M.J 



LISSANTHE. A genus of Epacridacece, 

 entirely confined to Australia and Tasma- 

 nia. They are small rigid shrubs, some- 

 times not more than three or four inches 

 high, and seldom exceeding five or six 

 feet, having small scattered sharp-pointed 

 often needle-shaped leaves, and very small 

 usually white flowers, borne either singly 

 or in short spikes from the sides of the 

 branches. The corolla is funnel-shaped, des- 

 titute of the hairs upon the limb possessed 

 by its congeners, whence the generic name 

 from lissos, smooth, and anthos, a flower. 

 The fruit is a small fleshy berry containing 

 a hard stone. That of several species is 

 eatable. L. sapida, a native of South- 

 eastern Australia, is called the Australian 

 Cranberry on account of its resemblance 

 both in size and colour to our European 

 cranberry, but its flesh is thin, and more 

 like that of the Siberian crab. L. strigosa 

 and L. montana are eaten in Tasmania, 

 the latter being a very dwarf mountain 

 species bearing large white transparent 

 fleshy fruits. [A. SJ 



LISSOCHILUS. A genus of vandeous 

 African orchids, of terrestrial habit, with 

 striated or plicate leaves, and racemes of 

 rather showy flowers springing from the 

 base of the pseudobulbs. It comes near 

 Pulophia, but is distinguished by the great 

 disproportion between sepals and petals. 

 The sepals are small, reflexed or spreading; 

 the petals large, spreading, wing-like ; the 

 lip saccate; the column short, erect; and 

 the pollen-masses two in number, bilobed 

 behind, with a short linear caudicle, and a 

 triangular gland. The species are not very- 

 numerous. [T. M.] 



LISTERA. A genus of terrestrial or- 

 chids, consisting of slender herbs with a 

 rootstock bearing a mass of thickish fibres, 

 and two leaves at some distance from the 

 ground, and so near together as to appear 

 opposite. The flowers are small, green, in 

 a slender raceme ; the sepals and petals 

 nearly alike, short and spreading ; the lip 

 longer, linear, and two-cleft; there is no 

 spur; and the anther is fixed by its base in 

 a cavity at the top of the short column. 

 There are but few species, natives of 

 Europe, Northern Asia, or North America 



