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funnel-shaped ; the stamens four in num- 

 ber ; and the fruit cylindrical, very fleshy, 

 and apparently many-celled. The branches 

 are more or less glutinous, and often flat 

 or angular ; the flowers appear in terminal 

 or axillary racemes, and are generally pink; 

 whilst the fruit, about as long as the little 

 finger, is dirty white. In Mauritius the 

 fruit of P. comorense is used for jellies, 

 and is also much sought after by birds ; P. 

 Bojerianum has likewise an edible fruit. 

 Both are inmates of our stoves. [ B. S.] 



PHYLLIDE. (Fr.) Phyllis. 



PBTXLILESIA. In some plants a curl 

 of the leaf is constitutional, as in Salix an- 

 nularis. A similar condition, accompanied 

 by more or less distortion or blistering, 

 may be produced by aphides, parasitic 

 fungi, or by particular conditions of the 

 atmosphere. The affection called curl in 

 potatos is of a different character. See 

 Ctjrl and Peach Blister. [M. J. BJ 



PHYLLIS. This name, derived from the 

 Greek phyllon, a leaf, is applied to a genus 

 of Cinchonacew, the species of which have 

 handsome foliage. The genus consists of 

 I shrubs, natives of the Canary Isles, with 

 the leaves opposite or in whorls of three 

 or four, and having membranous stipules 

 prolonged into thread-like processes. The 

 flowers are greenish in a terminal panicle ; 

 the limb of the calyx divided into two un- 

 equal deciduous lobes : the corolla wheel- 

 shaped, five-parted, with a short tube al- 

 lowing the five stamens to protrude beyond 

 it : styles two, hairy ; fruit of two dry in- 

 dehiscent carpels. [M. T. M.j 



PHYLLITIS. Scolopendrium. 



PHYLLOBRYON. The contracted pedi- 

 cel of an ovary, such as occurs in some 

 peppers. 



PHYLLOCACTFS. Several species and 

 varieties of this genus of Cactacece are cul- 

 tivated in hothouses in this country for 

 the sake of their fine white or crimson 

 flowers, which are among the largest and 

 most showy of the order Some confusion 

 exists in their nomenclature, owing to 

 many cf the species having formerly been 

 referred to the genera Epipliyllum and 

 Cereus. They are, however, distinguished 

 from the latter by their curious flat broad 

 leaf -like branches ; and from the former by 

 their flowers being produced from the 

 notches or indentures along the edges of 

 the branches instead of at the end, and 

 having small sepal-like segments scattered 

 J wide apart on the tube, and numerous long 

 i petals variously expanded so as to form a 

 I rose-like, or a funnel- or salver-shaped co- 

 ! rolla, with the stamens attached to the 

 : orifice of the tube, the outer ones being 

 J longer than the inner. The nine species 

 j described by botanists are found in Mexico, 

 j Central America, and Brazil. P.Ackerman- 

 ni, a native of Mexico, has flowers measur- 

 | ing as much as seven inches across, and of 

 a rich scarlet colour like those of some 

 j varieties of Cereus spedosissimus, with 



brond, very sharp-pointed, slightly waved 

 petals ; its stems are rounded at the base 

 and bear little tufts of short bristles, and 

 its flat branches are from two to two-and- 

 a-half inches broad and waved or deeply 

 dented along the margin. P. anguliger is 

 a "West Mexican species, and is remarkable 

 for having its flat branches deeply and 

 sharply lobed so as to resemble pinnately 

 cut leaves, the lobes almost forming right- 

 angled triangles; its flowers, which are 

 large and fragrant, have brownish outer 

 petals, and pure white inner ones. [A. S.] 



PHYLLOCARPUS. A genus of Lecjumi- 

 nosce, of the suborder Ccesalpiniece, estab- 

 lished by Tulasne on a Brazilian tree, with 

 pinnate leaves and yellow flowers on short 

 lateral peduncles, and remarkable for the 

 long broad very flat and thin pod with a 

 winged keel. Nothing is known of it be- 

 yond the dried specimens. 



PHYLLOCLADTJS. A singular genus of 

 Taxacece, consisting of trees natives of 

 Australia, New Zealand, and Borneo. On 

 young seedling plants of this genus the 

 true leaves are linear, sharply pointed, one- 

 nerved, and glaucous on the under-surface ; 

 but in the adult plants, rhomb-shaped 

 phyllodes are formed. These phyllodes, 

 emerging from the axils of scaly leaves, 

 seem to be formed partly of the branchlets, 

 and partly of a number of linear leaves all 

 united so as to form one leaf-like organ. 

 The fruit consists of a few thick scales 

 each bearing one ovule. The characters of 

 the foliage and fruit serve to distinguish 

 this genus from its near ally Dacrydium. 

 P. rhomboidalis, the Celery-topped Pine, is 

 in cultivation as an ornamental tree, as is 

 also P. trichomanoides, the bark of which 

 yields a red dye. [M. T. M.] 



PHYLLOCORYNB. A genus of JBalann- 

 phoracece, whose species are natives of 

 Jamaica. They have a lobed or branched 

 rootstock, from which proceed a number 

 of flower-stalks, densely invested with 

 scales, and bearing cylindrical or oblong 

 heads of flowers. The stamens are connate ; 

 and there are two styles. The genus is 

 said by Dr. Hooker, its originator, to differ 

 from Helosis, both in habit, and in the leafy 

 flower-stalks. [M. T. MJ 



PHYLLODINEOUS. Resembling a leaf, 

 as in the flattened branches of Xylophylla 

 and Ruscus. 



PHYLLODE, or PHYLLODITJM. That 

 kind of leaf which results from an enlarge- 

 ment and flattening of the petiole and the 

 loss of leaflets. 



PHYLLOGLOSSUM. A curious genus 

 of clubmosses, with the habit of an adder's- 

 tongue. It has a tuberous root, short awl- 

 shaped leaves, and a spike of capsules sup- 

 ported by a stem longer than the leaves. 

 The capsules are axillary bivalved and sub- 

 tended by a short ovate pointed bract. It 

 is found in marshy ground in New Zealand, 

 and is curiously connected with Ophioglos- 

 sacece by the very similar Cape genus Rhizo- 



