. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1012 MICONIA robust: Ivs. very large (becoming2-2i^ ft. long), broad- ovate and wavy-edged, arched, rugose, upper surface lustrous green, lower surface red, the very prominent veins white or light-colored: fls. small, panicled. Mex. 1859, p. 359. âDiscovered by Gh
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1012 MICONIA robust: Ivs. very large (becoming2-2i^ ft. long), broad- ovate and wavy-edged, arched, rugose, upper surface lustrous green, lower surface red, the very prominent veins white or light-colored: fls. small, panicled. Mex. 1859, p. 359. âDiscovered by Ghiesbrecht and first shown by Linden in 1857. One of the best and most strilsing of all conservatory foliage subjects. Voss (Blumeugartnerei) revives for this species the genus Tamonea and calls it T. magnified, Voss. M. velitina, Lind. & Rod. ( 41:21), of Brazil, is perhaps a form of this species. Its Ivs. are not arched and the colors are more bronzy. spectinda, Rod. {Ci/anoplii'/Uiim specldndiim, Nichols.). Lvs. oval, 1% ft. or less long, 6-7 in. broad in the middle, the upper surface dark lustrous green, the under side greenish red, the midrib prominent and gray. Ass&mica {Cyanophfilhim Assdmicum, Hort.) was once offered by Saul. Said to be "a very beautiful foli- age plant, with large, fine ; Probably a smaller type of St. spectanda, but very pretty when the lvs. are expanding. .Said by Nicholson and Mottet to be much inferior to the above. L. H. B. MICBOKflNTIA (Greek, minute Kentia). Pal- vidcem. Here may belong the plant known to the trade as Kentia gracilis. Microkentia is a genus of 6 species of palms from New Caledonia. They are unarmed, with slender, bamboo-like, ringed trunks. The leaf segments are long-sword-shaped and distinct, or the upper ones grown together into a broad 2-cut blade. The fruits in this genus are amongst the smallest in the palm family. The fls. also are minute. The true Kentias, of which perhaps none is cu
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