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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Nephthytis (To the species described on p)

Nephrolepis
Nephrolepis

To the species described on p. 446, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

N. picturata (pictured). l. spreading, 6in. to 12in. long, 5in. to 9in. broad, broadly ovate-hastate, deeply cordate at base with a rhomboid sinus, cuspidate-acuminate at apex, variegated with white in a pattern resembling the tips of Fern fronds laid between the nerves; petioles 10in. to 12in. long, terete, erect, green. Congo, 1887. Stove perennial. See Fig. 44, p. 574, for which we are indebted to Mr. Wm. Bull.

Nephthytis
Nephthytis

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