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Spring (L five or six)
l. five or six, lorate-spathulate, 6in. to 8in. long, 1 1/2in. to 1 3/4in. broad, pale glaucous-green, with deeper green and purplish blotches. Cape of Good Hope, 1862. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 187.) S. sub-glauca (rather glaucous) fl., perianth greenish outside, purple within, oblong-campanulate, 1/4in. long; pedicels six to seven lines long, the lower ones drooping; raceme rather loose thirty to forty-flowered, 3in. to 4in. long, 1 1/2in. or rather more broad; scape spotted, 3in. to 4in. long. Spring. l. five or six, lorate-lanceolate, 9in. to 10in. long, 1in. broad, acute, distinctly narrowed at base, pale glaucous green on the face, purple-spotted at back. Cape of Good Hope, 1862. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 186.) S. tricolor (three-coloured). fl., perianth green, the segments oblong; filaments bright mauve-purple; lower pedicels spreading, 1/2in. or more long; raceme dense, oblong-conical, 2in. to 3in. long, 1 1/4in. to 1 1/2in. broad; scape flexuous, terete, 6in. to 8in. long. Spring. l. six or seven, lanceolate, erecto-patent, glabrous, 1ft. long, 2in. broad, narrowed to 1in. at the channelled base, dark green, blotched on the face with lighter green, and on the back with claret-brown. Port Elizabeth, 1880. Greenhouse. S. uniflora (one-flowered). A synonym of S. sibirica. S. verna (spring). Sea Onion. fl. fragrant; perianth bright blue, 1/2in. in diameter; bracts as long as the pedicels, or longer; lower pedicels 1/2in. long; raceme six to twelve-flowered, sub-corymbose or deltoid, 3/4in. to 1 1/2in. broad; scapes one or two, shorter than the leaves. April and May. l. preceding the flowers, linear, sub-obtuse, 3in. to 10in. long, 1/8in. to 1/6in. broad, recurved, concave. Europe (Britain). (Sy. En. B. 1527; F. D. 568, under name of S. bifolia.) S. versicolor (various-coloured). fl., perianth whitish, tinged with green, 1/5in. long, the segments ligulate, slightly obtuse; anthers blue; lower pedicels at length spreading, 1 1/2in. to 2in. long; raceme rather dense, fifty to eighty-flowered, 6in. to 8in. long, 3 1/2in. broad; scape erect, 6in. to 8in. long. Spring. l. six to eight, glabrous, ascending, linear-lorate, 6in. to 9in. long, four to six lines broad, green on both sides, acute and narrowed at apex. Cape of Good Hope, 1872. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 305.) S. villosa (villous). fl., perianth blue, 1/3in. or rather more long, the segments elliptic, rather obtuse; pedicels erecto-patent, the lower ones 3/4in. to 1 1/4in. long; raceme sub-corymbose, six to eight-flowered; scape 2in. to 3in. long. Spring. l. three or four, lorate, spreading, 3in. to 5in. long, 1/4in. to 1/2in. broad, ciliated, loosely pilose on the face, channelled below. Barbary, 1831. Hardy. (B. M. 3211.) S. zebrina (zebra-striped). fl., perianth greenish and purple, rounded-campanulate, 1/4in. long; pedicels 1/4in. to 1/3in. long, the lower ones drooping; raceme dense, thirty to forty-flowered; scape 4in. to 6in. long, spotted below. Spring. l. five or six, ligulate-lanceolate, nearly erect, 8in. to 12in. long, 1in. to 1 3/4in. broad, acute, slightly narrowed at base, glaucous-green above, below copiously marked with parallel, vertical bars, and towards the base also with horizontal bars, passing into blotches of purple. Cape of Good Hope, 1862. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 185.) SCIMITAR PODS. The pods of Entada scandens.
SCINDAPSUS (from Skindapsos, an old Greek name for an Ivy-like plant). ORD. Aroideae (Araceae). A genus comprising about nine species of tall, robust, climbing, stove shrubs, natives of tropical Asia, the Indian Archipelago, New Guinea, and the Fiji Islands. Flowers all perfect, densely disposed on a sessile, cylindrical, inappendiculate, hermaphrodite spadix; spathe cymbiform, thick, longer than the spadix; peduncle terminal, short, thick. Leaves ovate, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; petioles elongated, sheathing at apex. S. officinalis, the only species introduced, requires culture similar to Caladium (which see). Some of the plants formerly included here are now placed under Rhaphidophora.
S. argyraea (silvery). l. thickly coriaceous, of a beautiful green, unspotted, or with numerous silvery spots, obliquely cordate ovate, very inequilateral, 4in. to 6in. long, 2 1/2in. to 3 1/4in. broad, shortly and acutely acuminate, the posterior lobes rounded; petioles 1 1/2in. to 2in. long. Stem climbing, the internodes 3in. to 4in. long. Philippine Islands, 1859. SYN. Pothos argyraea (of gardens).
S. officinalis (officinal). fl., spathe green outside, dirty-yellow within, four times as long as the thick peduncle, long-cuspidate; spadix very thick, attenuated at both ends. May. l. as long as the petioles, emarginate at apex, ovate-oblong, rounded or loosely cordate-emarginate at base, abruptly long-cuspidate at apex. h. 4ft. India, 1820.
S. picta (painted). fl., spathe cuspidate, about 2 1/2in. long; spadix very shortly stipitate, cylindroid; peduncle rather shorter than the petioles. l. obliquely oblong, inequilateral, rounded or slightly cordate at base, narrowed at apex into a cusp, coriaceous, dark green above, clouded and irregularly spotted, paler and unspotted beneath, 4in. to 5 1/2in. long. Java.