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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Thunbergia (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 32-3, the following should now be added:

T. affinis (related). fl. ample, sub-solitary; corolla violet, the tube yellow within and tinged yellow outside, twice as long as the bracts, recurved above the base, the lobes ample, rounded, retuse. September. l. shortly petiolate, elliptic, acute or obtuse, entire, acute at base. Stem quadrangular, rambling. Zanzibar, 1886. "Perhaps a glorified form of T. erecta" (Sir J. D. Hooker). (B. M. 6975.)

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