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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Synandra

(from syn, together, and aner, andros, an anther; the posterior and sterile anthers are connate). ORD. Labiatae. A monotypic genus. The species is a hardy, hairy, fibrous-rooted biennial, with the habit of Lamium, and requiring ordinary culture.

S. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl. white or nearly so, solitary in the bracts; corolla 1 1/2in. long; filaments bearded. June. l. membranous, cordate, coarsely crenate, all but the floral ones (which are reduced to ovate, sessile bracts) long-petioled. h. 1ft. to 2ft. North America, 1827.

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