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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Landolphia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 232, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

L. florida (flowery). Indiarubber-tree of Tropical Africa. fl. white, orange-stained towards the centre, scented, shortly pedicellate; calyx small; corolla tube straw-yellow, 1in. long, the lobes 1in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse; cymes pedunculate, many-flowered. June. l. ample, shortly petiolate, ovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, entire, rounded or sub-cordate at base, with six to eight nerves on either side the midrib. Tropical Africa, 1878. (B. M. 6963.)

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