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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Glyphaea

(form glyphe, carving, carved work; in allusion to the markings of the fruit). ORD. Tiliaceoe. A genus containing two species of stove shrubs, natives of tropical Africa. Flowers yellow; cymes few-flowered, axillary, lateral or terminal. Leaves denticulate, three-ribbed. For culture, see Apeiba.

G. grewioides (Grewia-like). fl. bright yello, 1 1/4in. in diameter; cymes three to four-flowered, pubescent, with stellate hairs. September. l. glabrous, 4in. to 6in. long, membranous, oblong or ovate, rounded or slightly unequally cordate at the base, acuminate, acutely and irregularly toothed. Benguela, 1866. (B. M. 5610, under name of Glyphoea Monteiroi.

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