. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). HYPOXIS THE BULB BOOK ICACINA narrow leaves {Gard. Chron. 1903, xxxiii. 116). H. tublflora {H. guianensis; If. petiolata ; Pancratium guianense; P. tvhiflorum ; P. petiolatum).—This is a native of Guiana, Trinidad, and tlie Amazon Valley, and, according to Mr Baker, it was " introduced into culti- vation at Kew about
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). HYPOXIS THE BULB BOOK ICACINA narrow leaves {Gard. Chron. 1903, xxxiii. 116). H. tublflora {H. guianensis; If. petiolata ; Pancratium guianense; P. tvhiflorum ; P. petiolatum).—This is a native of Guiana, Trinidad, and tlie Amazon Valley, and, according to Mr Baker, it was " introduced into culti- vation at Kew about 1803 from bulbs taken in a captured French, vessel from Cayenne, and again by Lambert in ; The ovoid bulbs are 3 to 4 ins. through, and have thin oblong acute leaves 8 to 12 ins. long, 4 to 5 ins. broad in the middle. Flowers numerous, with an erect slender tube 6 to 8 ins, long, and linear segments 4 ins. long, the narrow funnel- shaped central cup being about 1 in. deep. (Bot. Beg. t. 265.) H. undulata (Pancratium undida- tum). — A Venezuelan plant with large ovoid bulbs and thin oblong acute leaves about 1 it, long and 5 to 6 ins. broad in the middle, nar- rowed gradually into a long stalk. About a dozen flowers are borne on top of a scape 2 ft. high, the peri- anth-tube being 6 to 7 ins. long, with linear^ drooping, wavy segments 3 to 3^ ins. long, and a funnel-shaped cup about 1 in. deep. HTTPOXIS (hypo, beneath; oxys, sharp; referring to the base of the seed-pod). Nat. Ord. Amaryllidese.— A genus containing over fifty species of pretty little bulbous plants dis-, tributed over Tropical Asia, Australia, the Mascarene Islands, Tropical and South Africa, and Tropical and Nortfi America. They have narrow leaves, often covered with soft hairs or down, and starry six-parted flowers borne either singly or in clusters. They are practically unknown outside botanical collections. A compost of sandy peat and loam suits them very well, and some of the species may be g
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