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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Saccolabium

Salvia
Salvia

To the species and varieties described on pp. 340-1, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

S. giganteum Petotianum (Petot's). fl. dull white, large and rigid. Cochin China, 1885.

S. Pechei (Peche's). fl., sepals and petals ochre, with red spots, cuneate-oblong, blunt-acute; lip forming a cupular spur, having a few red spots at the yellow base of the spur, the side laciniae retuse and angular over the transversely triangular, nearly white mid-lacinia; raceme few-flowered. l. broadly ligulate, blunt, bilobed at apex, 7in. long, nearly 2in. broad. Moulmein, 1887.

S. Smeeanum (Smee's). fl., sepals and petals greenish-white, with mauve mid-veins, becoming whitish-ochre with brown-purple stripes, the sepals oblong-ligulate, the petals nearly so; lip white, becoming yellow, the disk of the oblong, acute mid-lacinia mauve, turning brown, the side laciniae very small; peduncles bifid, each branch closely racemose. 1887.

Sambucus
Sambucus
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