. 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. 2276. Scilla Sibirica (X i^). SCINDAPSUS (an old Greek name, transferred to these plants). Ardcece. Climbing perennials, differing from Monstera in floral characters and in the long- petioled, long-sheathed, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-acu- minate Ivs. Species 9 or 10. East Indies. Scindapsus comprises one popula
. 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. 2276. Scilla Sibirica (X i^). SCINDAPSUS (an old Greek name, transferred to these plants). Ardcece. Climbing perennials, differing from Monstera in floral characters and in the long- petioled, long-sheathed, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-acu- minate Ivs. Species 9 or 10. East Indies. Scindapsus comprises one popular and worthy warmhouse plant, that known to gardeners as S. argyneus. For culture, follow directions given under Philodendron. pictus, Hassk. Internodes of the stem 3-4 in. long, 2 in. thick; petioles lJ^-2 in. long; blade 4-6 in. long, 2'4-iyi in. wide, one side half as wide as the other, coriaceous, bright green (drying black), obliquely ovate- cordate. Var. argyrEeus, Engler [S. arqyrXvus, Hort. Pbthos argyneus, Hort.), is the cult, form, with broad, deeply cordate leaf-blades which are spotted and blotched above with silvery white. Celebes, Philippines, â Java, etc. ^l'^~lJbJl. ';,;;^^.. .. 2277. Scilla amoena (X Yz) S. aiwmaliis, Hort. = Monstera acuminata.â5. Cuscudria, Presl., is now referred by Engler to Cuscuaria marantifolia. Not known to be in the trade. It is a question whether the Aglaonema commutatum sometimes mentioned in liortieul- tural literature is this species or is Aglaonema marantifolium, var. commutatum. Engler.âS. pertusus, Portusa. Jared G. Smith. SCOLOPENDRIUM SCfEPUS (Latin for bulrush). Gyim-dcea. BuL- KDSH. Sedge. A large genus of rush-like or grass-like plants inhabiting the whole globe, and characterized by perfect flowers in spikes which are solitary, clustered or umbellate : scales spirally arranged: perianth of bristles or none, not enlarged in fruit: ovary one-loculed, with one anatropous ovule; stj^le not thic
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