. 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). Fig. 76.—Brodicsa Howelli Ulacitia. B. ixioides (Ornithogalwn ixioides ; Calliprora lutea).—A beautiful and distinct species popularly called " Pretty Face," having narrow, linear, fleshy leaves, and scapes 1 to 2 ft. long, bearing umbels of ten to twenty bright yellow flowers. The variety erecta is a fine form w
. 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). Fig. 76.—Brodicsa Howelli Ulacitia. B. ixioides (Ornithogalwn ixioides ; Calliprora lutea).—A beautiful and distinct species popularly called " Pretty Face," having narrow, linear, fleshy leaves, and scapes 1 to 2 ft. long, bearing umbels of ten to twenty bright yellow flowers. The variety erecta is a fine form with large clear yellow flowers of great substance. Splendens is another fine variety, rather earlier in blossoming. B. laxa (Milla and Triteleia laxa). —A pretty and showy species with narrow linear leaves, and scapes 1 to 2 ft. long, having umbels of twenty to fifty or more pale or dark violet flowers about li ins. long, with segments shorter than the funnel-shaped tube. Th&vssh&iy splendens is an improve- ment on the type, with stouter scapes and larger heads of blossom of a soft. Fig. Tl.—Bndiaa laxa. (i.) March produces its • large, slightly scented, pure white flowers with a greenish band down the centre of the segments. Only a few large blossoms are borne on each umbel. B. multlflora {B. parviflora).—A pretty species with six to twenty rather small pale blue flowers in umbels on long scapes. There are three perfect stamens and three staminodia. (Bot. Mag. t. 5989.) B. Orcuttl.—This distinct species has linear flattish leaves and stout scapes 1 ft. or more in length, and umbels of five to fifteen or more bright lUac flowers, each over 1 in. in diameter, with three fertile stamens and three staminodia {Gard. Chron. 1896, XX. 214, f. 40). B. Falmeri.—A species not yet well known, with narrow lance-shaped leaves, and bright purple flowers on stems 1 to 2 ft. high {GarUnfl. 1889, f. 107). 15. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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