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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Duvalia (There are about ten species)

There are about ten species of this genus. To those described on p 496, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. angustiloba (narrow-lobed). fl., corolla chocolate-brown, 3/4in to 1in. in diameter, the lobes narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, folded back into thin, vertical plates; corona white; cymes stout, five to twenty or more-flowered Stems subglobose or oblong, 1/2in. to 1in. long, 1/2in to 3/4in. thick, obtusely four or rarely five-angled. 1875.

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