. 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. BACTEIS BALSAM 125 BB. acute at tip, Gasip&es, HBK. (Guiliilma speciosa, Mart.). St. about 60 ft. high, single oroasspitose, with rings oj subu-. 178. Balaka Seemanni. late-compressed black spines, 1 in. long, the rings about as far apart as the diam. of the st.: Ivs. 6 ft. long, curv- ing; seg
. 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. BACTEIS BALSAM 125 BB. acute at tip, Gasip&es, HBK. (Guiliilma speciosa, Mart.). St. about 60 ft. high, single oroasspitose, with rings oj subu-. 178. Balaka Seemanni. late-compressed black spines, 1 in. long, the rings about as far apart as the diam. of the st.: Ivs. 6 ft. long, curv- ing; segments dark green above, pale green below, very numerous, approximate, IJ^ft. long, IM in. wide, linear- lanceolate, long-acuminate, bristly or minutely prickly along the margins. Lower Amazon. h<jrrida, Oerst. Csespitose stems 6-8 ft. high, 8-9 in. diam., very spiny, sheathed for most of its length with bases of dead Ivs.; spines 3-4 in. long, 4-sided, whitish tomentose, at length glabrous: Ivs. 2}^-3 ft. long; sheath 8 in., brown-tomentose ; petiole IJ^ft., densely spiny, subtetragonal, densely brown-tomentose beneath ; seg- ments 7 in. long, Kin. wide, lanceolate, rigid, glaucous. Nicaragua. Jaeed G. Smith. BACULABIA (Latin, baculum, a small walking-stick). Palmdcem, tribe Arecem. Low spineless palms, with an- nular reed-like single or fasciculate sts: Ivs. terminal, unequally pinnatisect; segments membranous, broad or narrow, split or toothed at the apex, the broader ones many-nerved, the narrow ones 1-nerved, the terminal confluent ; midrib and nerves without scales below; margins not thickened, recurved at the base; petiole and raehis sparsely scurfy, convex on the back, flat above or concave toward the base : sheath short, open : spadices numerous, longer than the Ivs., spreading, recurved : peduncle very slender, scurfy, compressed at the base : spathes 2, remote, the lower one at the base of the pe- duncle tubular, the upper membranaceous, linear, ensi- form : fls. g
Size: 1212px × 2062px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgardening
