. 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. PITTOSPOEUM PLACEA 1361 AA. Fls, yellow or greenish yelloiv. B. Plant glabrous throngliout: sepals very short. 3. eugenioldes, A. Cunn. Tarata. Small tree, 20-40 ft. high: Ivs. bright yellowish green, shining, handsome, 3-4J^ in. long, acute; margins often undulate; lis. 3^ In. long or less, partially monoeciou
. 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. PITTOSPOEUM PLACEA 1361 AA. Fls, yellow or greenish yelloiv. B. Plant glabrous throngliout: sepals very short. 3. eugenioldes, A. Cunn. Tarata. Small tree, 20-40 ft. high: Ivs. bright yellowish green, shining, handsome, 3-4J^ in. long, acute; margins often undulate; lis. 3^ In. long or less, partially monoecious or dioecious; sepals very acute: fr. 3i in. long, apiculate; seeds matui'e in about 12 months. April. New Zealand. —In Calif, the most extensively cult, species, much used for clipped hedges and ornamental shrubbery; hardy; growth rapid. A variegated variety is cult, in Europe. 4. phillyraBOldes, DC. Small, graceful tree or slender shrub with the habit of a weeping willow; Ivs. 2-4 in. long, with a small hooked point; fls. ii in. long, soli- tary, yellow, often dioecious; sepals %'ery obtuse ; fr. }4. in. long, oval, much compressed, yellow; seed dark or orange-red. Deserts of interior Australia. 5. viridifl6rum, Sims. Cape Fittosporiqi. Shrub, 6 ft. high ; Ivs. obovate. obtuse and retuse, glabrous, shining and reticulate beneath ; fls. in somewhat glo- bose panicles, greenish yellow, jasmine-scented: pedi- cels glabrous. Cape Colony. 1684. —Int. by Frau- eeschi, as also was No. 4. BE. Plant with lower side of Ivs., young shoots and pedicels densely clothed with rusty tomentum: sepals yi in. long. 6. revolutum, Dryand. Tall shrub : Ivs. 2J^-3 in. long, 1-lH in. wide, acutish: fls. Vi in. long, yellow; sepals acuminate, tips recurved: fr. Vi-Y^ in. long, rough outside; seeds red or brown. Aus- tralia. 3:186. AAA. Fls. ivhite, greenish ^vhite or yellowish ivhite. B. Ijvs. acute or acuminate. 7. rhombifdlium, A. Cunn. Queensland Pittospo- KUM. Tree, 60-
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