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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Stipels

Small bodies, like diminutive stipules, situated at the base of each leaflet in certain compound-leaved plants (e.g., Phaseolus), but solitary, except that there are two at the base of the terminal leaflet. Leaflets in such leaves are said to be "stipellate." In some plants, e.g., Erythrina, Stipels are replaced by small, glandular bodies.

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