. 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. ^CHMEA AERIDES 29 panicle 1-2 ft. long, witH few-flowered branches : scape tiiU, reddish, downy : Hs. purple. Trop. Amer. — JE. Schicdedna, Schleeht. (.^.macracantha, Broiign.). Lvs. large, rigid, strongly armed : panicle 3-pinuate, pubescent : fls. pale yellow. Hex. Gt. 1894:175.— is
. 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. ^CHMEA AERIDES 29 panicle 1-2 ft. long, witH few-flowered branches : scape tiiU, reddish, downy : Hs. purple. Trop. Amer. — JE. Schicdedna, Schleeht. (.^.macracantha, Broiign.). Lvs. large, rigid, strongly armed : panicle 3-pinuate, pubescent : fls. pale yellow. Hex. Gt. 1894:175.— is L H B JSGLE (from J5gle, one of the Hesperides). Rut&cece, tribe Auraniieiv, Small, strongly spinose trees, with al- ternate, trifoliolate leaves. Distinguished from the nearly related genus Citrus (particularly C. MtoUata) by the hard, gourd-like rind of its fruit and its viscous, woolly seeds. Mirmelos, Correa. Elephant Apple. Makedoo. Ben- gal QtJiNCE. Bhel Fruit. Small tree: fr. large, 2-4 in. in diam., round or pear-shaped. Trop. Asia. —Cult, in S. Fla. and Calif., and in hothouses. The wood is valued for its strengtii, and the sweet, aromatic pulp is used medicinally in India for diarrhoea and dysentery, and also as a lemonade and conserve, -rr -, wp,-,-,,;.,, 3!GOP0DHrM {aix, goat, and podion, a little foot; probably from the shape of the leaflets). Umbellifera'. Goutweed. Coarse, hardy herbaceous perennial, with creeping rootstocks, biternate lvs., sharply toothed, ovate leaflets, and white fls. in umbels. Podogriria, Linn., var. variegitum, is a variegated form of this European weed, which makes attractive mats of white-margined foliage. Common in yards. AEEANTHUS. Consult Angrcectim. AMtBXB'ES{GTeek,air-plavt).Orchld(lcece,tTihefdndew. Epiphytes: stems erect, roundish : lvs. distichous, strap- shaped and spreading, coriaceous, deeply channeled at the base, obtuse; peduncles from the axils of the lvs.; fls. in loose or dense racemes; petals narrower than
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