. 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. 1032 MORINGA MORKENIA with tbe Legurainosee, which it resembles in external appearance. Fls. perfect, 5-merous; calyx cup-shaped, 5-clei't, the lobes reflexing; petals 5, one of them erect and larger; fertile stamens 5, alternating with 5 or 7. 42D. Moringa oleifera About natural size. 1421. Moringa oleiferaâ t
. 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. 1032 MORINGA MORKENIA with tbe Legurainosee, which it resembles in external appearance. Fls. perfect, 5-merous; calyx cup-shaped, 5-clei't, the lobes reflexing; petals 5, one of them erect and larger; fertile stamens 5, alternating with 5 or 7. 42D. Moringa oleifera About natural size. 1421. Moringa oleiferaâ the Horse-radish Tree. (XM.) staminodia, the anthers attached on the back, and l-lo- culed: fr. a long, 4-9-angled, 1-loculed pod with 3 valves, the seeds immersed in the spongy contents of the valves. oleifera, Lam. (M. pterygosphmia, Gfertn.). Horse- radish Tree. Figs. 1420, 1421. Small tree (reaching 25 ft.), with soft wood and corky bark, the young parts pubescent: Ivs. mostly 3-pinnate, 1-2 ft. long, all parts stalked: fls. whitish, stalked, fragrant, 1 in. across: pod often \)4 ft. long, 9-ribbed, bearing 3-angled, winged seeds. India, but now spontaneous in parts of the W. Indies. âThe Horse-radish Tree is so named from the pungent taste of the root, which is sometimes eaten. The young fr. is also edible. The seeds (called ben- nuts) yield an oil, which is more or less used in the arts. The tree is sometimes cult, in the extreme southern U- S. L. H. B. MOEMdDES (Greek, a grotesque creature). Oi-elii- clAcew. This genus is remarkable for the interesting form of its flowers, which suggested the name given to the genus by Lindley. The plants are rather large, with long, tapering pseudobulbs sheathed by the dry bases of the fallen Ivs.: Ivs. long, plaited, deciduous in the autumn: raceme from the base of the pseudobulbs bearing many showy fls.: sepals and petals subequal, mostly narrow; labellum firmly united with the column, with revolute margins, rarely concave, turned to
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