. 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. STREPTOSOLEN STRYPHNODENDRON 1747 , Miers {BrowdlUa Jdmesonii, Hort., & ). Fig. 2436. Handsome evergreen scabrous- pubescent shrub, 4-6 ft. high, hardy and much culti- vated in California as far north as San Francisco. June. II. 21:797. Gn. 26:4-47. 1883:36. 460.'5. 5:43
. 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. STREPTOSOLEN STRYPHNODENDRON 1747 , Miers {BrowdlUa Jdmesonii, Hort., & ). Fig. 2436. Handsome evergreen scabrous- pubescent shrub, 4-6 ft. high, hardy and much culti- vated in California as far north as San Francisco. June. II. 21:797. Gn. 26:4-47. 1883:36. 460.'5. 5:436. 16:6. .S9:200. V. 7:298; 9:147. —An old favorite in northern greenhouses. J. BuRTT 2436. Streptosolen Jamesonii (X ^^). STROBILANTHES {Greek, cone and flower, refer- ring to the inflorescence). Acanthdcete. A large genus containing about 130 species inhabiting the warm re- gions of Asia and the Malay Islands to Madagascar. They are mostly erect, half-shriibby plants cultivated for their flowers and foliage. Only young, well-grown plants are attractive, the older ones becoming weedy and unattractive. Some species are grown as ornamen- tal foliage bedding plants, but they are not as desirable for general use as the coleus, the slightest cool weather changing the color of their leaves to a very undesirable shade. In the greenhouse they make fine decorative foliage plants but require at all times a high temperature and an abundance of moisture and much syringing. Under unfavorable conditions they lose their leaves and become unsightly. Lvs, opposite or rarely scattered, entire or toothed: fls. blue, violet, white or yellow, in terminal or axillary spikes or heads, or in loose cymes, mostly large; calyx deeply 5-parted, with linear lobes; corolla-tube narrow at base, straight or curved, enlarged above, limb of 5 spreading ovate or rotund equal lobes, or the dorsal pair united; stamens 4, perfect, or only the 2 lower per- fect and the upper pair sterile and abor
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