. 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. modes spiny: lvs. showy,5-9 ft. long, equally interruptedly pinnatisect; petiole4-6 ft., brown-scaly, thickly covered with very long(%-2%ia.), black-tipped yellow spines, either solitary orin groups of 2-4 ; segments linear-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, prickly on the margins, the basal ones 2-8 , IKin. wide, the
. 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. modes spiny: lvs. showy,5-9 ft. long, equally interruptedly pinnatisect; petiole4-6 ft., brown-scaly, thickly covered with very long(%-2%ia.), black-tipped yellow spines, either solitary orin groups of 2-4 ; segments linear-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, prickly on the margins, the basal ones 2-8 , IKin. wide, the upper, 12 in. by l%ia. Spines acute at both ends. milior, Jacq. St. 9-15 ft. high, 1-l^in. in diam., armedwith rows of black spines, 2 in. long: petiole armed withvery long black, terete spines ; Iv,^. 4-6 ft. long, equallypinnatisect nearly to the rachis; sheath and rachis spinyand white or brown tomentose ; segments linear, acuteat both ends, 25-35 on each side, 1-nerved, 8-12 in. long,%-yi. wide, glabrous on both sides, densely setose,with black hairs along the margin. Brazil, (124) BALSAM 125 BB. acute at tip. Gasipies, HBK. (GuiliHma speciosa, Mart.). St. about GO ft. liish. single oroaespitose, with rings of subu-. -^:- 178 Balaka Seen late-compressed blacls spines, 1 in. long, the rings aboutas far apart as the dlam. of the St.: Ivs. 6 ft. long, curv-ing; segments dark green above, pale green below, verynumerous, approximate, IKft. long, 1^ in. wide, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, bristly or minutely pricklyalong the margins. Lower Amazon. h6rrida, Oerst. Ospitose stems 6-8 ft. high, 8-9 , very spiny, sheathed for most of its length withbases of dead Ivs.; spines 3-4 in. long, 4-sided, whitishtomentose, at length glabrous: Ivs. 2V3-3 ft. long; sheath8 in., brown-tomentose ; petiole IKft., densely spiny,subtetragonal, densely brown-tomentose beneath : seg-ments 7 in. long, Hin. wide, lanceolate, rigid,
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