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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Rodriguezia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 311, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

R. Bungerothii (Bungeroth's). fl. purple; sepals and petals resembling those of R. secunda; lip cuneate-obovate, bilobed, with a well-developed, triangular, descending spur; column quite naked, white; inflorescence dense. Venezuela. A near ally of R. secunda.

R. Leeana picta (painted). fl. covered with numerous mauve-purple lines and spots, which are almost circular on the fine lip. A fine variety. 1885.

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