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August (L roundish Habit dwarf tufted)
l. roundish. Habit dwarf, tufted.
ALYXIA (said to be the native Indian name of one of the species). SYN. Gynopogon. ORD. Apocynaceae. A genus embracing about thirty species of stove, often glabrous shrubs, inhabiting Eastern tropical Asia, the Malayan Archipelago, Ceylon, Madagascar, tropical Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Flowers rather small, twin or cymose; calyx five-parted, glandless; corolla salver-shaped, with a cylindrical tube and five twisted lobes; stamens included. Leaves whorled in threes or fours, or rarely opposite, coriaceous, shining, penniveined. The best-known species are here described. They thrive in a mixture of sandy loam and a little peat. Cuttings of ripened wood will root freely if inserted in pots of sand, under glass, and plunged in heat. A. bracteolosa (slightly bracteate). fl. pale yellow, with a long tube; cymes axillary, many-flowered, shortly pedunculate. l. in threes, oblong or sub-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate at apex rounded or acute at base. Fiji, 1887. Climber.
A. daphnoides (Daphne-like). fl. yellowish-white, sessile, axillary and terminal, solitary. April. l. in fours, obovate-oblong, elliptic, or rhomboid, obtuse, shining, 1/2in. to 3/4in. long. h. 4ft. Norfolk Island, 1831. (B.M. 3313.) A. ruscifolia (Butcher's-broom-leaved). fl. white, small, sessile, in sessile, terminal heads. July. l. whorled, broadly ovate-elliptic to narrow-lanceolate, acute, with a short, pungent point, 3/4in. to 1 1/2in. long, shortly petiolate, the margins recurved or revolute. Australia, 1820. A tall, handsome shrub. (B.M. 3312; L.B.C. 1811.) AMARABOYA (the native name). ORD. Melastomaceae. A small genus (three species) of erect, glabrous, stove or greenhouse, evergreen shrubs, natives of New Grenada. Flowers showy, cymose; petals usually six, cordate; stamens twelve to fifteen. Leaves large, opposite, sessile, with three very prominent nerves, green above, reddish-carmine beneath. Branches as thick as the thumb, bluntly four-angled. The species will probably thrive under the same treatment as that recommended for Pleroma (which see, on p. 162, Vol. III.). A. amabilis (lovely). fl. white, margined with carmine, large; petals broad; style red, elongated; umbels terminal. l. 10in. to 12in. long, 8in. broad, opposite, elliptic, canescent beneath, the three nerves brownish or reddish. Stems terete, purplish. 1887. (I.H. ser. v. 9.) A. princeps (princely). fl. of a uniform bright carmine, very showy; petals usually six, broadly cordate; stamens white; cymes terminal, few-flowered; peduncles stout. l. elliptic, sessile, apiculate, 7in. to 10in. long, 3in. to 5in. broad, green above, reddish-brown beneath. 1887. (I.H. ser. v. 4.) A. splendida (splendid). fl. 6 1/2in. across, very beautiful; petals sub-triangular, 3in. long, nearly 2 1/2in. broad, at first reddish-pink, becoming white in the lower part; stamens yellowish; style red, elongated. l. very large, ovate-oblong, green above, coppery-pink with three red nerves beneath. 1886. A gorgeous plant. (I. H. ser. v. 34.) AMORPHOPHALLUS. Including Hydrosme. This genus comprises about twenty-five species, inhabiting tropical Asia and Africa, the Malayan Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands. To those described on p. 65, Vol. I., the following should now be added:
A. Leopoldianus (Leopold II.'s). fl., spathe reddish-violet, expanded shortly pedunculate, the lamina oval-lanceolate, long-acuminate, the margins undulated; spadix 2ft. to 2 1/4ft. long, cylindrical. l. horizontally spreading, 2 1/2ft. to 3ft. in diameter, trifariously palmately divided, the division bisected; segments oblong-lanceolate, loosely and irregularly bi-tripinnatisect, the ultimate segments 1 1/4in. to 2 1/4in. long; petioles about 1 3/4ft. high, terete, dotted. Congo, 1887. SYN. Hydrosme Leopoldiana (I.H. ser. v. 23) A. Teuszii (Teusz's). fl., spathe green outside, dark purple-brown within, 6in. long, with a short, ovoid tube, and an open, trifid limb; spadix rather shorter than the spathe, with a greenish, cylindric appendix; peduncle very short. l. solitary, tripartite, with bipinnatifid-branched divisions; ultimate segments linear lanceolate. Western tropical Africa, 1884. SYN. Hydrosme Teuszii (R. G. 1142).
A. virosus (venomous). fl., spathe externally pale green, spotted white and margined purple, within purple at the rugose base, rich cream in the middle, and purple in the upper part, 9in. long, 6in. in diameter; spadix about 7in. long, with a brownish or purplish, sub-globose, rugulose appendix. Siam, 1885. Much like A. campanulatus, but with a smaller inflorescence. AMPELOPSIS. Botanically, this is merely a section of the genus Vitis. To the species described on pp. 65-6, Vol. I., the following variety should now be added:
A. Hoggi (Dr. Hogg's). A large-leaved, vigorous-growing form of A. tricuspidata. 1888.