. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . III, 1, p. 737. Var. Loftisse, Van Houtte. Dwarferand smaller in all its parts than var. Leopoldii:
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . III, 1, p. 737. Var. Loftisse, Van Houtte. Dwarferand smaller in all its parts than var. Leopoldii: , dark reddish green, terete, covered in partswith soft pilose hairs, upper part of the st. below theinfl. quite glabrous: lvs. in. long, elliptic, rich darkgreen with brighter colored silvery markings along themidrib and principal veins: infl. 3-6 in. long, un-branched; bracts ovate, •4in. long, rich dark yellow,with green markings in the middle; fls. exserted beyondthe bracts over half their length, rich canary-yellow,l-^in. diam., lower 3 petals forming a lip and reflexed,upper 2 hooded, reflexing with age; tube broad, broad-ening out upwards with a narrowbase, \% in. long. Brazil. :157. Chamissoni&na, Nees (A. punctata,Hull). An erect herb or sub-shrub:sts. slender, erect, terete, green, lowerpart more or less woody: lvs. petio-late, eUiptic or elliptic-lanceolate,tapering at apex and base, and upto 6 in. long, upper part light green,marked along the princ
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