. 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. LUFFA LUPINUS 949 acutangula, Roxbg. (L. fatida, Cav.). Sing-kwa of Chinese. Fig. 1323. rounded, scarcely lobed, very coarsely toothed : ovary 10-ribbed, ripening into a strongly ribbed fruit. Tropics. Gt. 48, p. 136. LUlSIA (after Don Luis de Torres, of whose personality little is known), Or- cJii
. 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. LUFFA LUPINUS 949 acutangula, Roxbg. (L. fatida, Cav.). Sing-kwa of Chinese. Fig. 1323. rounded, scarcely lobed, very coarsely toothed : ovary 10-ribbed, ripening into a strongly ribbed fruit. Tropics. Gt. 48, p. 136. LUlSIA (after Don Luis de Torres, of whose personality little is known), Or- cJiiddceie. Curious epiphytic herbs, with simple or branched erect stems, bearing alternate, elongated, fleshy-terete Ivs.: tls. sessile, on short lateral spikes; sepals and petioles sub-similar, connivent or half- spreading; labellum adnate to the column, somewhat concave, with small lateral lobes and a large, spreading, entire or bi- fid middle lobe; column short; poUinia 2, on a broad, short pedicel. About 10 spe- cies. These plants are rarely cult. They grow well in any warm or intermediate house. tdres, Blume. Spike few-ild.: lateral sepals narrower than dorsal, which is similar to the petals: labellum bi-auriculate, oblong- sulcate, apex bifid. L. ihres, teretifolius. Heinrioh Hasselbring. LVNABIA (Luna, Latin for moon; name referring to the silvery white partition of the large pods). Cruclf- erce. Moonwoet. Honesty. Two herbs of Europe and W. Asia, both cult, in old gardens. Lvs. rather large, simple, broad or more or less cordate: ils. purple, in terminal racemes or panicles, rather large and showy: fr. stalked in the calyx, becoming a very large, flat, disk- shaped silicle, with deciduous valves and a thin, per- sistent septum: seeds winged, 2^ in each compartment. The plants are easy of cultivation under any ordinary garden conditions. They are interesting for their showy fls.,but are grown mostly for their great flat pods,which are used in winter bouq
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