. 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. SICANA SILENB 1C67 brous, the stems angled: Ivs. large (often 1 ft. across), nearly orbicular in outline, deeply cordate at the base, strongly about 5-Iobed and the lobes repand-toothed or angled: fls. solitary, monoecious, the corolla small and yellowish, urn-shaped, with small reflexed lobes; stig- mas 3, eac
. 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. SICANA SILENB 1C67 brous, the stems angled: Ivs. large (often 1 ft. across), nearly orbicular in outline, deeply cordate at the base, strongly about 5-Iobed and the lobes repand-toothed or angled: fls. solitary, monoecious, the corolla small and yellowish, urn-shaped, with small reflexed lobes; stig- mas 3, each 2-lobed: fr. like a slender vegetable marrow, 1-2 ft. long, smooth, nearly cylindrical, orange-crimson, with a very strong aromatic odor. 1890:51(3. —Prob- ably native to Brazil, but occurring also in Mex. and the West Indies. The Curuba seems to be grown in the tropics as an ornamental plant, although it is said to afford edible preserves. The plant climbs ,S0-50 ft. It is well worth growing on summer arbors, or under glass if one has room for it. The fruits are very interesting, fragrant and ornamental. Perennial. S. atropiirpurea, Andrfi. Has shorter subpyriform. brilliant violet-purple fruits, and purple-tinted under surfaces of the Ivs. Perhaps a form of S. odorifera. Uruguay. 1894:108. —S. spherica. Hook. f. Fls. large and spreading, more like those of Cucurbita: Ivs. reuiform, 3-5-lobed: fr. globose, size of a small orange. Jamaica. 7109. L. H. B. SlDA (from the old Gi'eek name for Nympluea alia; given without explanation by Linneeus). MatvAcece. A genus of about 80 species of herbs or shrubs, mostly native of the tropical regions of the world, with usually serrate, dentate or lobed leaves and small or rarely large, mostly yellow or whitish flowers, which are solitary or in clusters, axillary or disposed in terminal branch- ing spikes or heads; bracteoles wanting or rarely 1-2 and bristle-like: calyx 5-dentate or 5-cleft; staminal column divided at a
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