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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Platyclinis (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 158, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. cucumerina (cucumber-like). fl. light, pellucid green, arranged in a graceful, distichous raceme; lip with a toothed, brown auricle on each side of the base, running out into a narrow, aristate process; middle lobe obcuneate, retuse, apiculate, with two brown stripes on the disk. l. shining. Pseudo-bulbs cucumber-like, at length furrowed, tufted. 1885. SYN. Dendrochilum cucumerinum.

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