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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Polystachya (To the species described on p)

Portulaca
Portulaca

To the species described on p. 196, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. leonensis (Sierra Leone). fl., upper sepals and petals light green; lateral sepals suffused brownish-purple in the lower half; lip white, the lateral lobes suffused behind with light purple, and the front lobe, the central keel, and the basal part of lip white-mealy. May. Bulbs globose-depressed, 1/2in. across, arranged in a string along the creeping rhizome so thickly as to touch each other. Sierra Leone, 1888.

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