. 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. 1636 SECHIUM SEDUM late are solitary or ia pairs on a short pubescent axil- lary pedicel. Corolla S-lobed, green or cream-colored. Stamens 3, united into a glabrous or glandular column. Lvs. 4-6 in. across, cucumber-like, cordate - ovate and 5_7-angled, pointed, somewhat scabrous above. Ten- drils opposite the
. 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. 1636 SECHIUM SEDUM late are solitary or ia pairs on a short pubescent axil- lary pedicel. Corolla S-lobed, green or cream-colored. Stamens 3, united into a glabrous or glandular column. Lvs. 4-6 in. across, cucumber-like, cordate - ovate and 5_7-angled, pointed, somewhat scabrous above. Ten- drils opposite the Ivs., 3^-cleft. The plant grows 50 feet in warm climates. 1865:51; III. 24:476; 28:450. L. H. 2281. Fruits of Sechium edule (X i'i). SECTJRINEGA (Latin, seci«)-js, hatchet, and negare, to refuse; alluding to the hard wood). Miphorbideew. Deciduous shrubs, with alternate, petioled, entire, usu- ally small leaves, small greenish or whitish flowers in axillary clusters or solitary, and capsular small sub- globose fruits. jS. ramiflora seems to be the hardiest species and the only one in cultivation in this country. It is fairly hardy at the Arnold Arboretum, usually only the tips of the young branches being winter-ljilled, and forms a handsome round bush with bright green foliage. It seems to grow in any kind of soil and is propagated by seeds and by greenwood cuttings under glass. About 10 species in temperate and subtropical regions of America, Asia and Africa, also in southern Europe, but none in N. America. Fls. unisexual, dioecious or monce- cious in axillary, few-fld. cymes or solitary; sepals 5; stamens usually 5, with a 5-lobed disk at the base; pis- tillate fls. with entire disk and 3 2-parted styles: fr. a 3-lobed dehiscent capsule, 3-6-seeded. ramifldra, J. MiiUer (GeUera suffruticbsa, Fisch. & Mey. Fhigqea S'Ut'fraticdsa, Baill. AcidbtonramifUrus, Kuntze). Shrub, 3-6 ft. high: Ivs. short-petioled, oval or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, cuneat
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