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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Lapeyrousia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 235, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

L. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl., perianth tube 1in. long; limb bright scarlet, 2in. in diameter, the segments oblong or oblong-lanceolate; spikes lax, four to ten-flowered; peduncle (including the inflorescence) 1ft. long. October. l., produced ones six to eight in a distichous, nearly basal rosette, linear, 6in. to 12in. long. Eastern tropical Africa, 1883. (B. M. 6924.)

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