The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Schizomeria

(from schizo, to cut, and meris, a part; alluding to the cut petals). ORD. Saxifrageae. A monotypic genus. The species is an ornamental, green house, evergreen tree, thriving in a mixture of loam and sandy peat. Propagated by cuttings.

S. ovata (ovate-leaved). fl. white, small, in terminal, trichotomous cymes; calyx five-lobed, with a short tube; petals five, toothed. June. fr. a rather large, ovoid or globular drupe. l. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, mostly 3in. to 4in. long, nearly entire, or with irregular, obtuse serratures. h. (in its native place) 50ft. Australia, 1825.

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