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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Canarium (This genus embraces about)

This genus embraces about fifty species, mostly natives of tropical Asia; a few are indigenous in Africa and the Mascarene Islands, and one is found in Australia. To the species described on p. 259, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. vitiense (Fijian). fl. yellowish-white, small, paniculate. fr. bluish-black. l. pinnate; leaflets five to seven, oblong-elliptic, obtuse. Fiji, 1887. A small tree.

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