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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Carmichaelia (Supplement)

New Zealand is the headquarters of the nine species embraced in the genus. To the one described on p. 269, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. Mulleriana (Muller's). fl. whitish, striated purple, small, solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves. l., leaflets one to three, small, obovate, emarginate, about 1/4in. long, on a rather longer petiole. Branches slender, compressed, pinnately branched; branchlets filiform, compressed. h. about 2ft. 1887.

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