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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Trichopilia (To the species described on pp)

To the species described on pp. 83-4, the following should now be added:

T. Laxa (loose). fl. in loose, erect racemes, produced out of broad, obtuse, short, membranous, spotted bracts; sepals and petals pale, watery green, faintly tinged with purple, erect, linear-lanceolate, equal; lip cream-colour. l. linear-oblong. SYN. Pilumna laxa (B. R. 1846, 57). T. I. flaveola (yellowish). fl. having yellowish-white sepals and petals. 1884. TRICHOSTEMA. To the information given on p. 86, the following should now be added. For culture, see Salvia, on p. 349, Vol. III. T. Parishii (Parish's). fl. bluish-purple, with very long, projecting stamens, disposed in long, virgate, interrupted spikes; inflorescence wholly clothed with purple, woolly hairs. l. entire, linear. Stems simple. h. 1 1/2ft. South California. An interesting, half-hardy sub-shrub.

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