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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Cleisostoma (This genus comprises about)

This genus comprises about fifteen species, natives of the East Indies, the Malayan Archipelago, and tropical Australia. To those described on p. 337, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. crassifolium (thick-leaved). fl. sea-green, with a rosy lip, small, produced in nodding panicles from the axils of the leaves. l. closely set, thick, leathery, much recurved, resembling those of a Vanda. India, 1850. (L. J. F. 397; P. F. G. iii. 29.)

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