. 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. acutangula, Koxbg. (L. fwtida, Cav.)- Sing-kwa of Chinese. Fig. 1323. Lvs. rounded, scarcely lobed, very iely toothed : ovary lO-ribbed, ripening into a civ rihhpH frnit Trr»Tiir»«_ Hf _ 4S. Tl_ l.^fi_ T tt T» coarsely uoomeu ; ovary ru-iiuucvi, iipcui Strongly ribbed fruit. Tropics. Gt. 48, p. 136. LDISIA
. 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. acutangula, Koxbg. (L. fwtida, Cav.)- Sing-kwa of Chinese. Fig. 1323. Lvs. rounded, scarcely lobed, very iely toothed : ovary lO-ribbed, ripening into a civ rihhpH frnit Trr»Tiir»«_ Hf _ 4S. Tl_ l.^fi_ T tt T» coarsely uoomeu ; ovary ru-iiuucvi, iipcui Strongly ribbed fruit. Tropics. Gt. 48, p. 136. LDISIA (after Don Luis de Torres, of whose personality little is known). Or- cliiilAceie. Curious epiphytic herbs, with simple or branched erect stems, bearing alternate, elongated, fleshy-terete lvs.: fls. sessile, on short lateral spikes; sepals and petioles sub-similar, connivent or half- spreading; labelhim adnate to the column, somewhat concave, with small lateral lobes and a large, spreading, entire or l)i- fld middle lobe; column short; pollinia 2, on a broad, short pedicel. About 10 spe- cies. These plants are rarely cult. They grow well in any warm or intermediate house. Wres, Blume. Spike few-fld.: lateral sepals narrower than dorsal, which is similar to the petals: labellum bi-auriculate, oblong sulcate, apex bifid. L. tires, teretifolius. Heinrich HaSSELBRINIt LUNARIA {Luna, Latin for moon; name referring to the silvery white partition of the large pods) Crucif era'. JIooNwoRT. Honesty. Two herbs of Europe and W. Asia, both cult, in old gardens. Lvs. rather large, simple, broad or more or less cordate: fls. purple, in terminal racemes or panRles rather laige and showy fr stalked m the calyx becoming a \ ery large, flat disk shaped silicle with dfidunus v-ilves ind a thin per sistent "i I turn 1 w m 1 ^ tinoi 1 c niiiartment The t . t 1 nvoidiniiy garden ill i i their showy fls ,but 11 1 11 I t ] ds which are used iu\ i il U[i l 11 i II 1
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