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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Ibbetsonia

(named in honour of Mrs. Agnes Ibbetson, the author of several papers on Vegetable Physiology, published in "Nicholson's Philosophical Journal"). A small genus of shrubby greenhouse Cape plants, now referred to Cyclopia. For cultivation, see Podalyria.

I. genistoides (Genista-like). fl. yellow, pea-shaped, with an irregular purplish-brown spot at the base. Summer. l. sessile, ternate; leaflets narrow-linear with strongly revolute margins. h. 3ft. to 5ft. A much-branched glabrous shrub. (B. M. 1259).

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