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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To the species and varieties described on pp. 81-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

A. Boylei (Boyle's). l. ovate, acuminate, 2in. long and broad, olive-green, netted and pencilled over the entire surface with gold. India. A. concinnus (neat). l. ovate, acuminate, rounded at base, dark olive-green, striped and netted with shining coppery-red, Assam.

A. Dominii (Dominy's). l. dark olive-green, the centre marked by a pale coppery-yellow streak, and the main ribs by pale lines. A vigorous garden hybrid between Goodyera discolor and Anoectochilus xanthophyllus. A. Eldorado (Eldorado). l. dark green, with small tracery of a lighter colour, deciduous. Central America. This species is difficult to cultivate; it must never be allowed to get dry at the roots, even when the leaves have died down. A. Friderici-Augusti (Frederick Augustus'). This is identical with A. xanthophyllus.

A. Heriotii (Heriot's). l. 3 1/2in. long, 2 1/2in. broad, dark mahogany-colour, with golden reticulations, a shadow of network showing through the surface. India.

A. hieroglyphicus (hieroglyph-marked). l. ovate-elliptic, small, dark green, marked with silvery-grey blotches of hieroglyphic character. Assam. A. javanicus (Java). A synonym of Argyrorchis javanica. A. Lansbergiae (Mme. van Lansberge's). l. larger than those of Dossinia marmorata; ground work of upper surface dull velvety-maroon, median nerve and smaller veins emerald, lines near margin dull gold; under surface light salmon-colour. A vigorous species. (I. H. ser. v. 1.) A. latimaculatus (broadly spotted). l. dark green, with silvery markings. Borneo.

A. Lobbianum (Lobb's). A synonym of A Roxburghii.

A. Lobbii (Lobb's). A synonym of A. argyroneura.

A. Nevillianus (Neville's). l. oblong-ovate, 1 1/2in. long, of a rich, dark velvety, coppery or bronzy hue, marked with two rows of pale, oblong blotches. h. 3in. Borneo.

A. Petola (Petola). A synonym of Macodes Petola.

A. querceticola (Oakwood-dwelling). A synonym of Physurus querceticolus. A. regalis (royal). The correct name of A. setaceus. A. Reinwardtii (Reinwardt's). l. deep velvety-bronze, intersected with bright golden lines. Java, 1861. A handsome species, somewhat resembling A. regalis. (B. H. 1861, 18.) A. Veitchii (Veitch's). This is identical with Macodes Petola.

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