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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Pittosporum (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 153-4, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. eugenioides variegatum (variegated). l. elliptic-oblong, pale green, bordered white. Stems and branches blackish-purple. New Zealand. Greenhouse, evergreen shrub.

P. flavum (yellow). A synonym of Hymenosporum flavum. P. rhytidocarpum (wrinkled-fruited). fl. white, disposed in terminal, crowded umbels. l. obovate or oblanceolate, shortly acuminate. Fiji, 1887. A pretty and useful, greenhouse shrub.

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