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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Camptopus

(from kamptos, curved, and pous, a foot; the flower-stalk is curved downwardly). ORD. Rubiaceoe. A curious shrub, now referred to Cephaelis. It requires a most stove temperature. Cuttings will root in sandy loam, under a hand glass, in bottom heat.

C. Mannii (Mann's). fl. white, numerously produced in sub-globose, compound heads; peduncles stout, scarlet, drooping, from 12in. to 18in. long. Summer. l. large, opposite, obovate or obovate-lanceolate, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib thick, red beneath. h. 15ft. Fernando Po, 1863. (B. M. 5755.)

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