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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Geodorum (Supplement)

SYNS. Cistella, Otandra. Of this genus about nine species have been enumerated: they inhabit the East Indies, the Malayan Archipelago, and Australia. To those described on pp. 61-2, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. Duperreanum (Baron Duperre's). fl. nine to fifteen in a spike; sepals and petals white, linear-oblong; lip white, with purple veins, concave. l. three or four, oblong-lanceolate. Cochin China, 1883. A pretty Orchid.

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