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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Liparis (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 283, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

L. elegans (elegant). fl., sepals and petals pale greenish; lip orange-red; raceme many-flowered; scape 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. high. l. 3in. to 8in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, one to three-leaved. Penang, 1886.

L. latifolia (broad-leaved). fl. ochre; sepals oblong-ligulate, the lateral ones bent down; petals linear, reflexed; lip cuneate-dilated, emarginate, two-lobed, with dark ochre anterior margins, reddish-brown on the disk; peduncle nearly 9in. long. l. solitary, cuneate-oblong-ligulate, acute, protected by a sheath. Java, &c., 1885.

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