APPENDIX. 



SUB-TROPICAL BEDDERS— ct? 



white ; 3ift. SPINOSUS, fl. purplish ; 

 3fc, to 4ft. 



Agave 



AMERICANA, 1. 30 to 40 in a rosette, 

 glaucous-green, 3ft. to 4ft. long, with a 

 dark brown point ; several varieties are 

 grown. A. VARIEGATA, 1. dark green 

 in centre, broadly margined with rich 

 yel. FILIFERA, 1. 60 to 100 in a dense 

 rosette, edges splitting off into wiry 

 grey threads. Scolymus, 1. 20 to 30 

 in a rosette, very glaucous, terminating 

 in a sharp spine. VIVIPARA, 1. 20 to 

 50, broad at middle, tapering to sharp 

 point. YUCC^FOLIA, 1. 20 to 40, 

 narrow and recurved, pale band down 

 the centre. 



Aralia 



CHINENSIS, 1. leathery, woolly on 

 both sides when young ; fl. white in 

 terminal panicles ; 5ft. to 6ft. EDULis, 

 1. lower ones pinnate, of three or five 

 leaflets, hairy, spineless ; 4ft. to 6ft. 

 SiEBOLDi, large dark green shining 1. 

 SPINOSA, stem prickly, forming 

 umbrella-like head ; 1. pinnate, 

 deciduous ; 8ft. to 9ft. 



Canna 



Alphonse Bouvier, fine light red 

 fl. Childsi, broad yel. petals, spotted 

 with cr. ; 3ft. Duchess of York, 

 pale yel., blotched with deep red, in 

 lai-ge trusses. Victor Hugo, dark 

 green 1. bordered with violet ; large 

 reddish-sc. fl. 



Cordyline 



AUSTRALIS, 1. 2ft. tO 3ft. long, 



striated with numerous parallel veins ; 

 stem stout, attaining a height of 30ft. 

 or 40ft. in native country. INDIVISA, 

 1. 2ft. to 4ft. long, narrow, tapering to 

 a point, dark green. I. atro-pur- 

 PUREA, dark purplish 1. I. Veitchii, 

 sheath and back of mid-rib deep red. 

 STRICTA, stem slender, attaining a 

 height of from 6ft. to loft. ; 1. narrow. 



Datura 



CHLORANTHA FLORE PLENO^ large 



fragrant dbl. yel. fl. ; 2ft. ; August and 

 September. Knightii, large dbl. 

 white pendulous flowers, sanguinea, 

 fl. solitary, tube orange-yel., green 

 towards base ; 1. covered on both sides 

 with soft white hairs ; 4ft. to 8ft. 



Dicksonia 



ANTARCTICA, Stem several feet high, 

 surmounted by a head of long tri- 

 pinnate 1. 



Dracaena 



CONCINNA, 1. narrow, with purplish- 

 red margins. Draco, 1. long and 

 narrow in a crowded head. GoLDiE- 

 ANA, irregularly banded with dark 

 green and silvery-grey, of a yellowish 

 shade. 



Grasses (Tall) 



Arundo conspicua, fl. silky-white 

 on large drooping racemes ; 5ft. to 7ft. 

 A. DONAX, large compact panicles of 

 reddish but ultimately white fl. Eri- 

 anthus Ravenna, dense tufts of 

 handsome violet-shaded 1. ; 5ft. to 6ft. 



EULALIA JAPONICA ZEBRINA, long 



narrow green 1., 3ft. long, with bars of 

 yel. Gynerium argenteum, narrow 

 glaucous-green 1., 5ft. long, forming 

 dense tufts ; fl. whitish, in dense silky 

 panicle. Zea Mays, 1. bi'oad and flat ; 

 3ft. M. VARIEGATA, 1. Striped with 

 white. 



Gunnera 



manicata, 1. several feet across, 

 with long prickly leaf-stalks. SCABRA, 

 large wrinkled 1. 



Heracleum 



GIGANTEUM, massive 1. ; spreading 

 white fl. -heads; 6ft. to 8ft. setosum, 

 1. ternate, five-lobed. SIBIRICUM, L 

 pinnate, with rough hairs ; fl. yellowish, 

 in large umbels ; 5ft. to 6ft. 



Hibiscus 



AFRICANUS MAJOR, fl. Cream with 

 rich brown centre and golden stamens ; 

 annual ; 2 ft. 



Musa 



ensete, 1. of a fine bright green, with 

 broad bright cr. mid-ribs, several feet 

 long. 



Palms 



Cocos Weddeliana, gracefully- 

 arched 1., ift. to 3ft. long; pinnae 

 (leaflets) long and narrow. C. FoR- 

 tunei, half - orbicular leaves, i^ft. 

 in diameter. Cham^^rops humilis, 

 usually from 3ft. to 6ft., with heads 

 of fan-shaped 1. Kentia Belmo- 

 REANA, a well-known pinnate-leaved 

 Palm. Latania borbonica, large 



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