. 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. 32 ^SCULUS AGAPANTHUS versicolor,Dipp.(^.ocfrfmdcaxPdOTa. P&via hijhrida, Spaeh. JBJ. or P. I/yoni, Hort.). Intermediate between A. octandra a,nd A. Pavia. Lvs. pubescent beneath: fls. yellow, tinged with red or nearly red. , Linn. {PAvia riibra, Poir. P, Michaiixi, Spaeh.). Shrub or small tree, 4-20
. 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. 32 ^SCULUS AGAPANTHUS versicolor,Dipp.(^.ocfrfmdcaxPdOTa. P&via hijhrida, Spaeh. JBJ. or P. I/yoni, Hort.). Intermediate between A. octandra a,nd A. Pavia. Lvs. pubescent beneath: fls. yellow, tinged with red or nearly red. , Linn. {PAvia riibra, Poir. P, Michaiixi, Spaeh.). Shrub or small tree, 4-20 ft.: leaflets oblong or elliptical, acute at both ends, finely serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath : panicles 4-7 in. long, loose ; fls. purplish to dark red ; petals very dissimilar ; stamens mostly 8, nearly as long as the petals : fr. smooth. May-June. N. Amer. 993. 13:1257. Var. hitmilis {A, himilis, Lodd.). Low shrub, 2-4 ft.: leaflets coarsely and unequally serrate, tomentose be- neath : fls. red, tinged with yellow ; calyx dark red. 1018.—Many garden forms, as var. c4mea, Hort. Fls. flesh-colored. Var. atrosanguinea, Hort. Fls. very dark red. Var. "WMtleyi, Hort. Fls. brilliant red. Var. p^ndula, Hort. (P. pumila, var. pindula, Hort.). Dwarf form, with pendulous branches ; Ivs. smooth. Some forms with variegated Ivs. BB. Fls. pure white, small; petals 4-5 j stamens more than twice as long as the petals, (Macrothyrsus.) parrifldra, Walt. (^E. macrostdchya, Michx. Pdvia dlba, Poir.). Shrub, 3-10 ft.: leaflets 5-7, elliptical or oblong-ovate, nearly sessile, finely serrate, pubescent beneath : panicles 8-16 in. long, narrow ; fr. smooth. July-Aug. S. states. B. M. 2118. Gng. 7 of the handsomest plants for a lawn clump. JH. Chinhisis, Bunge. Allied to A. turbinata. Leaflets dis- tinctly petioled, rounded at the base. China.—JB. Indica, Colebr. Fls. simllartOjE. Hippocastaniun: Ivs. obovate-laneeo- late, distinctly petioled, smooth. Himal. B
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