Botanical Art Gallery

Trichonema speciosum, Ker Gawl. ('Crimson Trichonema')

Original illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published as plate 1476, 1st July 1812. Watercolour and pencil on paper. The currently accepted plant name is Romulea speciosa. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, this drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in Mr. Knight's greenhouse, King's-Road, Fulham, and which had originally been obtained from Mr. Hibbert's collection

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Crassula saxifraga Harv

Original illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6068, 1st November 1873. Watercolour and pencil on paper. The specimen figured is from tubers collected in South Africa. According to J.D. Hooker, this species has a wide South African distribution, being found on mountain sides from the extreme south-west, as on the Muysenberg mountain, near Simon's bay, to Port Elizabeth and Albany

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Zamioculcas boivinii, Dcne

Original illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published as plate 6026, 1st April 1873. Watercolour and pencil on paper. Kirk had collected dried specimens previous to the living specimens he sent to Kew of this species in 1872, when accompanying Livingstone on his second expedition, in 1861. These dried specimens were collected from the banks of the Shire river, opposite the rapids of Zedzani

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