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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Caleana

(named after G. Caley, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden, St. Vincent). ORD. Orchideae. A genus of greenhouse terrestrial Orchids, natives of Australia. Flowers few, greenish-brown; column broad, thin, concave; sepals and petals narrow, reflexed; lip posticous, peltate, unguiculate, highly irritable. In fine weather, or if left undisturbed, this lip bends back, leaving the column uncovered; but in wet weather, or if the plant is shaken, the lip falls over the column, securely fastening it. Leaves solitary, radical. They are of easy culture, in a compost of fibry peat, lumpy loam, and a little charcoal.

B. major (greater). fl. green-brown. June. 1810.

C. minor (less). fl. green-brown. June. 1822.

C. nigrita (blackish-flowered). fl. dark.

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