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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Seriana

ORD. Sapindaceae. A large genus (about sixty species) of stove, climbing or twining shrubs, all natives of tropical and sub-tropical South America. Flowers yellowish; sepals five (or four and two of them connate), imbricated, concave; petals four; racemes or panicles axillary, often bearing two tendrils. Leaves alternate, exstipulate (or with minute stipules), ternate, biternate, or impari-pinnate, often pellucid-dotted. A few of the species have been introduced, but they boast of no particular beauty, and are probably only cultivated in botanical gardens.

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