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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Todaroa

(commemorative name). Campylocentron is now the correct name. ORD. Orchideae. A genus comprising about fifteen species of stove, epiphytal Orchids, natives of tropical America. Flowers minute, spicate, often distichous; sepals and petals free, narrow; lip sessile at the base of the column, produced in a spur at base; column very short. Leaves distichous, often scattered, oblong, linear, or terete. Stem occasionally leafless, not pseudo-bulbous. Only one species calls for description here. For culture, see Angraecum.

T. micranthum (small-flowered). fl. white; sepals and petals spreading at apex; lip conformed, bilobed; spur obtuse, incurved; spike secund, many-flowered, horizontal, shorter than the leaves. February. l. 1 1/2in. long, oblong, three-nerved, oblique at apex. Stem short. 1836. (B. R. 1772, under name of Angraecum micranthum.)

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