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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Chysis (Supplement)

The six or eight species referred to this genus are natives of Mexico and Columbia. To those described on pp. 326-7, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. undulata (wavy). fl. ten to twelve in a raceme; sepals and petals of a lively orange-yellow; lip cream-coloured, marked with numerous lines of pink. Pseudo-bulbs 1 1/2ft. high. Native country unknown. A rare but handsome species.

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