. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. CANTUA CANTUA (from Cantu, Peruvian name). PoIemoiiiA- teat. Ten species of South American flowering slirubs with very variable foliage and showy, tubular fls. of va- rious colors. C. buxifotia is cult, out of doors i
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. CANTUA CANTUA (from Cantu, Peruvian name). PoIemoiiiA- teat. Ten species of South American flowering slirubs with very variable foliage and showy, tubular fls. of va- rious colors. C. buxifotia is cult, out of doors in , and is rei'omraended in Europe as a coolhouse shrub. Proljably no tenderer than Fuchsias. Prop, by cuttings. buxifblia, Lam. ( C. depindens, Pers.). Much branched shrub, about 4 ft. high ; branches more or less downy: ivs. very variable, generally obloug-obovate, acute, taper- ing at the base, entire or serrate, downy or glabrous : fls, 5-8, drooping vertically, in a kind of leafy, termi- nal corymb ; calyx pale, membranous, green-streaked, 5-toothed, a fourth shorter than the corolla tube; corolla long-funnel-shaped, the tube 2/^in. long, red, usually streaked ; limb of fringed, obcordate, crimson lobes : stamens included. Peru. 4582. 7:650. 1858, p. 294. —One of the choicest of European green- house plants. Very liable to red spider in our climate. O. bicolor, Lem. Distinguished from the above by tlie entire Ivs., which are shorter, about 1 in. long, and the solitary fls., with a short, yellow tube, the limb not fringed. The lis. droop, but not vertically. Peru. 4729. 4:343. Probably less de- sirable than the above.— O. pyrifblia, Pers. Lvs. generally broader and more toothed than in C. bicolor; fls. as many as 17, in an erect, terminal, compound corymb ; calyx red-tipped, nearly half as long as the yellow corolla tube : corolla about li^in. long, with a white limb : stamens long, exserted. Pent. 4386. 4:383. W. M. CAPE BULBS
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