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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Galtonia (This genus now embraces three)

This genus now embraces three species. Flowers white, showy, in a long, loose raceme; perianth tube rather broad, rounded at base, the lobes as long as the tube, spreading; stamens six, affixed to the throat or tube, shorter than the lobes; scape simple, leafless. Leaves few, radical. To the species described on p. 43, Vol. II., the following should now be added: G. clavata (club-shaped). fl. scentless, arranged in a lax raceme; perianth tube clavate, about 1in. long, the segments 1/2in. long, oblong, obtuse; peduncle 2ft. high. Autumn. l. six or eight, sessile, lanceolate, glabrous, glaucous-green, 2ft. long. 1879. An unattractive plant. (B. M. 6885.)

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