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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Aspasia

The half-dozen species of this genus are all tropical American, ranging from Brazil as far as Central America. To those described on p. 124, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

A. principissa (princely). fl. over 2in. across, somewhat resembling those of an Odontoglossum; segments light green, lined brown, lanceolate-linear; lip light buff, broadly pandurate, almost 1in. long. Veraguas.

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