. 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. 480 DICHORISANDRA DICTAMNUS 3-4 in. wide, witii a short, sharp, rather abrupt point: stem unbranched, robust, spotted; raceme short, densely thyrsoid: sepals white or greenish. Gt. 1868:593. 16:1711.—Its chief beauty is the mosaic appearance of the foliage, due to numberless short, transverse, whitish line
. 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. 480 DICHORISANDRA DICTAMNUS 3-4 in. wide, witii a short, sharp, rather abrupt point: stem unbranched, robust, spotted; raceme short, densely thyrsoid: sepals white or greenish. Gt. 1868:593. 16:1711.—Its chief beauty is the mosaic appearance of the foliage, due to numberless short, transverse, whitish lines, which do not pass by the longitudinal veins of the leaf. The under side of the Ivs. is a rich purplish color. Var. gigaut^a, Hort., is cult, abroad. Var. undata {B. unddta, C. Koch & Linden). Foliage without any mosaic appearance, the variegation being entirely longitudinal. Each parallel vein lies in the mid- dle of a long, whitish band extending the full length of the leaf. 17 refers Z>. undata to D. mosaica, but hortieulturally they are very distinct. SiSbertli, Hort. A little known plant with white mid- rib and margins. D. acaHlis, Cogn. Stemless: Ivs. in a rosette, almost sessile, narrowly oblong, wavy, acutish, short-cuneate at the base, sparsely pilose on both sides; panicles terminal, sessile, much shorter than the Ivs. Braz. 41:19. Handsomely varie- gated with countless short, longitudinal lines.—D. angustifblia, Lind. & Rod. Stem purple, spotted green: Ivs. oblong-lanceo- late, sessile, glabrous, roundish at the base, acute, about 6 in. long, 2 in. wide at the, middle, purple below, marked above with short, transverse, white lines. Equador. 39:158.—1>. Zeu- cophthdlmos,'Kook., differs from all here described in having radical iniiorescence, its fls. lying fiat on the ground. Lvs. el- liptic, acuuLinate, green on both sides: fls. blue, with a white eye: stamens 6. Braz. 4733.—D. oxyp6tala,'Sook.,is in- stantly r
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