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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Eurygania

(from eurys, wide, and ganos, brightness; Eurygania was a wife of Cedipus). ORD. Vacciniaceae. A genus of about a dozen species of ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, with pendent branches, allied to Thibaudia (which see for cultivation). All are natives of the Andes of South America. E. ovata (ovate). fl. in very spreading, shortly peduncled, axillary corymbs, 4in. to 5in. across; calyx deep red; corolla urn-shaped, red; mouth whitish. July. l. ovate-acute, serrulate, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long. Stem stout; branches long, rambling, cylindric, green. 1878.

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