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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Leontice (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 249, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

L. Alberti (Albert Regel's). fl. ochreous, streaked reddish-brown at back, nearly 1in. across; raceme conical. April. l., fully-formed ones on petioles 4in. to 5in. long, sub-digitately five-partite, the leaflets rather fleshy, elliptic, obtuse; stipules 3/4in. long. Stems several, very stout, each giving off two radical, undeveloped leaves (which fully develop long after the flowering period), and a stout flower-stem 6in. to 8in. high. Western Turkestan, 1886. Half-hardy. (B. M. 6900; R. G. 1057, f. 2.)

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