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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Dieffenbachia (According to Bentham)

According to Bentham and Hooker, there are only about half-a-dozen true species of this genus, all natives of tropical America. To the species and garden forms described on pp. 472-5, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. Jenmani (Jenman's). l. long and narrow, oblong-lanceolate, pea-green, with oblique, elongated blotches parallel with the primary veins, extending from the centre nearly to the margin, and mingled with smaller blotches over the surface. British Guiana, 1884. (R. G. 1884, 365.)

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