. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1000 MELALEUCA species, with many changeable and uncertain variations, found throughout tropical Asia, especially the Indian Archipelago. The plants range in size from shrubs to trees SO ft. high, the large trees having slender, pendu- lous branches, the small trees an
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1000 MELALEUCA species, with many changeable and uncertain variations, found throughout tropical Asia, especially the Indian Archipelago. The plants range in size from shrubs to trees SO ft. high, the large trees having slender, pendu- lous branches, the small trees and shrubs rigid, erect branches: Ivs. often vertical, elliptical or lanceolate, straight, oblique or falcate, acuminate, acute or obtuse, when broad 2-A in. long, when narrow 6-8 in. long, nar- rowed into a petiole, thin or riirid: more or less interrupted, solitarv or 2 or :; tli. i, less than 2 to more than 6 in. : :! , â , ,-, white, elongated; stamens greenish >⢠'. I'iiik or purple, glabrous, 5-9 in each !â . : im i.^ in. not', decussata, H. Hr. Tall shrub, sometimes 20 ft. high: lvs. o|i[iosiIe, often decussate on the smaller liraii.'li. s, ..' lanceolate or linear, 3-6 lines long, rigid: !'-. ri.'li'i--mall, pink; when in oblong or almost glolnil I ! ' . I i. or spikes are usually barren, and fertil 11^'or cylindrical interrupted spikes foruiii 'I I. afy branches; stamens not above 3 lines !-,,.(;, 11, lily united in bundles of 10-15; calj'x lobes more or Ic-ss searious and deciduous or wearing off when in fruit, attached by the broad base, more or less immersed when in fruit in the thickened rachis. 2268. 13:1208. M. B. CocLSTON. MELANTHIUM (Greek, fiZncfcrtoMicr; from the darker color which the persistent perianth assumes on fading). LiUHeetp. Leafy perennial herbs 2-5 ft. high, with thick rootstocks: lvs. linear to oblanceolate or oval: fls. greenish, white or cream-colored, borne in a large,
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