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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Govenia

To the species described on p. 87, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. sulphurea (sulphur). fl. rather large; sepals light sulphur, the lateral ones rather broader than the cuneate-lanceolate upper one; petals white on the disk, sulphur on the margin, with numerous broken, purple lines; lip white, spotted dark brown at apex, cordate-oblong. l. scarcely 2in. broad, cuneate-lanceolate, acuminate. Pseudo-bulbs onion-like. Paraguay (?), 1885.

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