FIG. 119. APONOGETON DISTACHYON, showing Habit and Flower-spikes.
A. angustifolium (narrow-leaved). fl. white. July. Cape of Good Hope, 1788. Half hardy.
FIG. 120. APONOGETON DISTACHYON, showing Flower-spikes, Leaf, and Root.
A. distachyon (two-spiked).* Cape Pond Weed; Winter Hawthorn. fl. with a delicious Hawthorn-like perfume; petals none; bracts, or showy portion oval, entire, white; anthers purple-brown; scape two-spiked, each spike being from 2in. to 4in. long. l. oblong-lanceolate, entire, bright green, on long stalks, floating. Cape of Good Hope, 1788. See Figs. 119 and 120.
A. monostachyon (simple-spiked). fl. pink. September. h. 1ft. East Indies, 1803. Stove species. Rare.
A. spathaceum junceum (rush-like).* A very pretty, but rare, half-hardy aquatic plant, with the forked inflorescence having both bracts and flowers suffused with a delicate blush colour. l. rush-like, standing clear up out of the water. South Africa, 1879.
APORETICA. A synonym of Schmidelia (which see).
APPENDICULATE, APPENDICULATED. Having appendages.
APPLANATE. Flattened out.