Images Dated 3rd May 2011

380. A common Plant on sandy sea-shores in the Tropics

This lovely trailer (Ipomoea blob, Forsk, is found on almost all sandy sea-shores in the tropics as well as in some subtropical regions, including many of the most remote oceanic islands. It is a most vigorous plant, its stems sometimes attaining a h

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Blue, Flower, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Pink

395. Buphane toxicaria and other Flowers of Grahamstown

Buphane toxicaria, Herb. is the large bulb bearing a single large head of innumerable small red flowers with projecting stamens. Like the gigantic Brunsvigia mutiflora (399) it develops leaves and flowers alternately, not coetaneously, as most plants

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Butter Fly, Flower, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Pink

383. A Remnant of the Past near Verulam, Natal

This trio of grand old Aloes (Aloe Baines ii, Dyer) was about forty feet high at the time the painting was done, and the only ones in that neighbourhood, where the native vegetation is fast disappearing before cultivation. The western species, of whi

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Mountains, Natal, Painting, River