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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Datisceae

A small order of dicotyledonous plants, closely allied to the Begonias. Herbs or trees, glabrous, pubescent, or almost scaly. Flowers dioecious, regular, rarely hermaphrodite or polygamous; corolla small or altogether wanting; calyx tube adhering to the ovary. Fruit a one-seeded capsule, opening at the top. Leaves alternate, simple or pinnate. There are only three known genera: Datisca, Octomeles, and Tetrameles.

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