. 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. TEEDIA TEfiDIA (J. G. Teede, German botanist, who lived some time in Portugal and died at Surinam), b'rropli- uldriacete. Two species of South African plants, with pink 5-lobed fls. ^-% in. across. They are tender to frost. T. lucida was introduced to southern Cali- fornia in 1900, and Franceschi records that 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. Gardening. TEEDIA TEfiDIA (J. G. Teede, German botanist, who lived some time in Portugal and died at Surinam), b'rropli- uldriacete. Two species of South African plants, with pink 5-lobed fls. ^-% in. across. They are tender to frost. T. lucida was introduced to southern Cali- fornia in 1900, and Franceschi records that it blooms all the year. The larger-fld. species, T. puhescens. seems not to be known to the American trade. Both plants emit the rank herbaceous smell peculiar to hen- banes when their foliage is bruised, and T. piihusceiis has the same sort of arori^v pnhi-^^c-n.'.-. The plants hardly seem worth ' m imh iImm m-oenhouses. When they were nrw tM ,ii: .iv supposed to be biennial hert>^. liut !'.â II . I! call them nual in southern California. It is rather pretty but weedy. It seeds freely. Seems to prefer half shade. The smell of the foliage is very ; Generic characters: calyx deeply 5-cut; corolla-tube cylindrical; lobes 5, rounded, subequal; stamens 4, didynamous, included; anther-cells parallel, distinct: ovules numerous in each locule : berries subglobose, indehiscent. likcida, Rud. Glabrous: stem 4-cornered; Ivs. ob- long-ovate, acuminate, 2 in. long, decussate; petioles winged: panicles leafy, decussate: fls. rosy pink: seeds many, small. S. Afr. 3:209. W. M. TELANTHfiKA (name refers to the fact that all ten parts of the staminal cup are equally developed). Ama- rantdcece. Alternanthera. Apparently all the Alter- nantheras used by gardeners as bedding plants belong to the genus Telauthera, which is distinguished from the true genus Alternanthera by having 5 anther- bearing stamens and 5 elongated antherless stam-
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