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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Jacobinia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 206, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

J. Mohintli (Mohintli). fl. orange-yellow, axillary; corolla bilabiate, the elongated tube inflated above, the upper lip slightly arched, the lower one curved in a spiral and three-toothed at apex. l. opposite, elongate-ovate, entire, coriaceous. Mexico, 1886. A half-hardy under-shrub, of bushy habit. SYN. Sericographis Mohintli.

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