. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). CLITIA THE BULB BOOK CLIVIA 0. mlnlata.—A fine species from Natal with bright green leaves, and stout two-edged stalks 1 to 1| ft. high, bearing an umbel of twelve to twenty bright scarlet funnel-shaped flowers with a yellow throat, in spring and early summer. There are many lovely forms of this species in cultiva- tion, a
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). CLITIA THE BULB BOOK CLIVIA 0. mlnlata.—A fine species from Natal with bright green leaves, and stout two-edged stalks 1 to 1| ft. high, bearing an umbel of twelve to twenty bright scarlet funnel-shaped flowers with a yellow throat, in spring and early summer. There are many lovely forms of this species in cultiva- tion, among them being atrosanguinea, aurantiaca, cruenta, Cooperi, grandi- Jlora, Lindeni, splendens, sulphurea, etc. (see Gartenji. 1864, t. 434; Bot. Mag. t. 4V83; Bev. Hart. 1859, tt. 29, 30; Fl. d. Serr. tt. 949-950, 2373-2374 ; 111. Hort. t. 343). The. Fio. 96.—Clivia miniata. variety striata has the. leaves freely striped ; and citrina has pale creamy flowers tinged with orange at the base {Gard. 1899, t. 1246). C. nobills {Imantophyllum Aitoni). —The genus Clivia and the genus Imantophyllum were both founded at the same time and on the same plant, but by two different authorities. Lindley called the plant Clivia noMlis —in the Bot. Beg. ; and Hooker called it Imantophyllum Aitoni, in the Bot. Mag. t. 2856. Curiously, the longer name Imantophyllum— which is derived from imas, a leather thong, and phyllon, a leaf, in allusion to the shape and texture of the leaves—is even now more popular amongst gardeners than the shorter name of Clivia; and some use both names indiscriminately. The species under notice, C. nobilis, is a native of Cape Colony whence it was intro- duced by Bowie in 1828. It has tufts of bright green strap-shaped leaves 1 to 1^ ft. long, with roughish margins. The bright red and yellow funnel-shaped flowers, tipped with green, are borne in umbels of forty to sixty on top of a stalk about a foot long, between May and July. Amongst greenhouse
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