Princess of Wales
(Fellowes), ROBERT SCOTT (Flowdy).
Heavy Rose-edged. CONSTANCE HERON (Fellowes), EDITH DOMBRAIN (Turner), FANNY HELEN (Niven), LADY BOSTON (Fellowes), LOUISA (Addis), MISS HORNER (Lord), MRS. PAYNE (Fellowes), MRS. WEBB (Fellowes), ROYAL VISIT (Abercrombie). Light Purple-edged. ALICE (Lord), AMY ROBSART (Dodwell), ANN LORD (Lord), BEAUTY OF CHELTENHAM (Abercrombie), CLARA PENSON (Wilmer), EVELYN (Hewitt), HER MAJESTY (Addis), MARY (Simonite), MINNIE (Lord), MRS. LANGTRY (Fellowes), NYMPH (Lord).
Light Red-edged. CLARA (Bower), GROSTEEN (Fletcher), MRS. BOWER (Bower), MRS. GORTON (Simonite), PRINCESS MARY (Fellowes), THOMAS WILLIAM (Flowdy), TOXOPHOLITE (Payne), VIOLET DOUGLAS (Simonite).
Light Rose-edged. DOROTHY (Fellowes), EMPRESS EUGENIE (Kirtland), ESTELLE (Fellowes), ETHEL (Fellowes), EVELYN (Fellowes), JEANETTE (Abercrombie), LADY CARINGTON (Abercrombie), LUCY (Addis), MISS GORTON (Dodwell) Yellow-ground. FLAVIUS (Turner), MRS. COLMAN (Turner), PRINCE OF ORANGE (Perkins).
PICRORHIZA (from pikros, bitter, and rhiza, a root; in allusion to the bitterness of the root). ORD. Scrophularineae. A monotypic genus, the species being a hardy, perennial, glabrous or pilose herb, the thick root of which is used in native Hindoo medicine. For culture, see Wulfenia. P. Kurrooa (Kurroo, native name). fl. white or pale blue, disposed in clustered, terminal spikes, sessile in the axils of the bracts; calyx five-parted, the segments loosely imbricated; corolla shorter than the calyx, with four broad, entire, erectopatent lobes; peduncles scape-like, many-flowered, 4in. to 6in. high. August. Capsule nearly 1/2in. long, acuminate. l. subradical, oblong, crenate-serrate, 3in. to 4in. long, slightly wrinkled, entire at base, and gradually narrowed into a short petiole. Stem short. Himalayas, 1879.
PICTETIA (named in honour of A. Pictet, 1752-1825, a celebrated natural philosopher). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus comprising half-a-dozen very glabrous, tropical American, ornamental, stove, evergreen shrubs. Flowers yellow in the axils, racemose or rarely solitary; two upper calyx lobes short, obtuse, the three lower ones acuminate; standard sub-orbiculate, keel obtuse. Pods oblong or broad-linear, stipitate, compressed, indehiscent. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets three to many, mucronate or pungent, entire, exstipellate; stipules often spinescent. The only two species in cultivation thrive in a compost of loam and peat. Propagation may be effected by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat.
P. aristata (awned). fl., racemes loose, three to seven-flowered. June and July. l. with seven to ten pairs of obovate-orbicular, usually alternate leaflets, each leaflet ending in a long, straight, spine-like mucrone, having the lateral nerves prominent; stipules spinose, spreading. h. 5ft. to 10ft. St. Domingo, 1816. SYN. AEschynomene aristata.
P. squamata (scaly). fl. on distant, elongated, nearly opposite pedicels; racemes loose, three to seven-flowered. June and July. l., leaflets seven to ten pairs, each ending in a long, spine-like mucrone; stipules spinose, erect. Branchlets with imbricated scales at their bases. h. 6ft. St. Thomas's Island, 1824. SYN. Robinia squamata.