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Nepal, is handsome, with rather large 

 white sweet-scented flowers, and all are 

 more or less aromatic. 



SCHIZANTHUS. A genus of Scrophula- 

 riacece, containing a few annual more or 

 less viscid herbs, natives of Chili. The 

 leaves are mostly pinnatisect, and the 

 handsome flowers are borne on one-sided 

 terminal cymes. The calyx is deeply five- 

 cleft ; the spreading limb of the corolla is 

 elegantly divided into numerous segments; 

 the two fertile stamens have two-celled 

 anthers ; the style has an obtuse apex ; 

 and the capsule is membranaceous. [W. C.J 



SCHIZOC^ENA. A name proposed for a 

 few Indian ferns now referred to Cijathca, 

 in which the involucre or cup is split into 

 a few broad lobes. 



SCHIZOCHITOjNT (CMsocheton of Blume). 

 A small genus of Meliacece, con fined to Java, 

 and consisting of trees with parapinnate 

 leaves, oblong and at the base oblique leaf- 

 lets, paniculate flowers, an almost entire 

 and urn-shaped calyx, five linear petals, 

 from six to eight anthers, a club-shaped 

 Style, and a three or by abortion one or 

 two-celled capsule, each cell containing a 

 solitary seed. f B. S.] 



SCHIZOCODON. A genus of Polemonia- 

 cece, founded on a single species, whose na- 

 tive locality is on the mountains of Japan. 

 It is a perennial herb, with coriaceous ever- 

 green leaves, all radical on long petioles, 

 and simple scapes, somewhat longer than 

 the leaves. The calyx and corolla are 

 chiefly five-parted; the five stamens al- 

 ternate, with as many linear ciliate scales; 

 the style simple terminal and persistent; 

 and the stigma three-tootlied. [W. C.J 



SCHIZOGRAMMA. Gymnogramma. 



SCHIZOGYNB. The only species of this 

 genus of Composite?,, S. sericea, is a much- 

 branched little bush about a foot high, 

 found growing on maritime rocks in the 

 Canary Islands. The stems are furnished 

 with alternate linear leaves about an inch 

 in length, and terminate in corymbs of 

 numerous small yellow flower-heads. There 

 are two varieties, one in which the stems 

 and leaves are covered with a white tomen- 

 tum, and another in which they are quite 

 smooth. The genus differs chiefly from 

 Inula in the entire instead of fringed or 

 lacerated anther-tails. [A. A. B.J 



SCHIZOLuENA. A genus of Chlenacece 

 peculiar to Madagascar, and composed of 

 elegant small trees, with ovate glabrous 

 leaves, and paniculate or racemose flowers, 

 either terminal or growing out of the old 

 wood of the trunk. The involucre is not 

 fleshy as in Sarcolcena ; there are three 

 sepals, five petals, an indefinite number of 

 stamens, a three-celled capsule, and nu- 

 merous seeds in each cell. [B. S.J 



SCHIZOLEPTON. A small genus of 

 ferns sometimes referred to Schizoloma, 

 but differing in not having a membrana- 

 ceous indueium, and hence proposed as 

 one of the Tcenitidece, ranking near Tcenitis, 



which it resembles in its uniform veins 

 without free veinlets, but from which it 

 differs in the sori being immersed in a 

 groove, the exterior margin of which is 

 thickened. »S". corclatum, the typical species, 

 is a Molucca plant. [T. M.J 



SCHIZOLOBIUM. A genus of the Legu- 

 mhwMP. closely related to Ccesalpinia, of 

 which it has the flowers, but differing in 

 the pods, which are described as obovate 

 compressed one-seeded, each of the two 

 valves readily splitting into two portions, 

 the outer coriaceous in texture, and the in- 

 ner, which encloses the seed, membrana- 

 ceous. The only known species, S. excelsum, 

 is a noble tree of Brazil and Panama, at- 

 taining a height of 130 feet, the branches 

 furnished towards the apex with large and 

 handsome twice-pinnate leaves like the 

 fronds of some large fern, and terminating 

 in great, panicles of pale-yellow flowers. 

 The leaves vary from two to five feet in 

 length, and are made up of about eigh- 

 j teen pairs of pinnae, each bearing about 

 I twenty pairs of oblong leaflets clothed 

 J beneath with a white or yellowish pubes- 

 I cence. The individual flowers have a 

 ; shortly tubular calyx, with a five-parted 

 reflexed border, five-clawed notched pe- 

 tals, ten perfect stamens, and a shortly- 

 stalked many-ovuled ovary crowned with 

 , a simple style. [A.A. B.] 



SCHIZOLOMA. This genus of ferns 

 ! differs from Lindscea only in having the 

 veins netted instead of free ; the fructifi- 

 cation is in all respects the same. It con- 

 tains a few species found in India, Malacca, 

 New Holland, and South Africa, but does 

 not occur in America. [T. M.J 



SCHIZOMERIA. A genus of Cunoniacece 

 from Eastern Australia. It forms a tree, 

 with simple stalked oblong-elliptical acute 

 serrate leaves, undivided caducous sti- 

 pules, and small white flowers in terminal 

 panicles; petals five, laciniate ; stamens 

 ten, with head-shaped anthers ; ovary free, 

 two-celled, with numerous ovules. [J. T. S.J 



SCHIZONEMA. A curious genus of 

 diatomaceous Alga?, which, from the abun- 

 dance of the gelatinous element, is cha- 

 I racterised by its forming variously fis- 

 sured branched threads containing several 

 chains, or in the ultimate divisions a sin- 

 gle chain of frustules. The species are, 

 with* one or two exceptions, confined to 

 salt water. [M. J. B.] 



SCHIZOPETALON. A genus of Crucir 

 ferai, consisting of Chilian annual herbs 

 with pinnatifid leaves, and long bracteated 

 racemes of white flowers, which are re- 

 markable for their pinnatifid petals. The 

 embryo has four green cotyledons, which 

 are spirally twisted ; the pod is narrowly 

 linear, beaded. [J. T. S.J 



SCHIZOPHRAGMA. A Japanese shrub 

 forming a genus of Saxifragacece, of the 

 tribe or suborder Hydrangea. It has the 

 habit and almost all the characters of 

 Hydrangea itself, with similar small 

 flowers in a broad compound cyme or 



