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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Lonchocarpus (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 296, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

L. Barteri (Barter's). fl. in clusters of eight or ten, 3/4in. long, shortly pedicellate; calyx reddish-brown, hemispheric; corolla rose-pink, the standard shortly clawed, the wings obtuse; racemes 1ft. to 1 1/3ft. long. September. l. 1ft. long or more; leaflets five or seven, 4in. to 7in. long, petiolulate, elliptic-oblong, acuminate or caudate-acuminate. Tropical Africa. Stove climber. (B. M. 6943.)

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