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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Amphilophium

(from amphilophos, crested on all sides; limb of corolla much curled). SYN. Amphilobium. ORD. Bignoniaceae. A handsome stove evergreen climber. Corolla somewhat coriaceous, with a short tube, and a large ventricose throat. Loam and peat, well mixed, suit it best; cuttings from young shoots root readily in sand, under a hand glass, with bottom heat, during the spring months.

A. paniculatum (panicled).* fl. rose; panicle terminal, composed of three-flowered peduncles. June. l. joined by pairs, opposite; leaflets ovate-roundish, acuminated, subcordate. WestIndies, 1738.

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