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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Illicium (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 177, Vol. II, the following should now be added:

I. verum (true). fl. red, axillary, shortly pedunculate, globose; perianth leaflets about ten, orbicular, concave. November. l. elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, shortly narrowed into the petioles. h. 9ft. South China, 1883. (B. M. 7005.)

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