Curtis Botanical - Plate 835 - Cheiranthus armeniacus / Armenian Wall-Flower

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 835, Cheiranthus armeniacus (Armenian Wall-Flower).

• Plate: 835
• Latin name: Cheiranthus armeniacus
• Common name: Armenian Wall-Flower
• Native region: Mount Arrarat in Armenia-Major
• Flowering: May
• Linnaean class / order: Tetradynamia / Siliquosa
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 835 ]

CHEIRANTHUS ARMENIACUS. ARMENIAN WALL-FLOWER.

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Class and Order.
TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.

Generic Character.
Germen utrinque denticulo glandulato. Cal. claufus foliolix 2 bafi gibbis. Sem. plana.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
CHEIRANTHUS armeniacus; caule frutescente diviso, foliis aggregatis incifo-dentatis superne latioribus, filiquis tetragonis stigmate bilobo incrassato terminatis. We received this, as we suppose, new CHEIRANTHUS, from Mr. Lodiges, of Hackney, who informs us that the seeds from whence he raised it, were gathered on the celebrated Mount Arrarat in Armenia-Major.

It has near affinity with the CHEIRANTHUS erysimoides, figured by JACQUIN in his Flora Austriaca, but differs in having a shrubby divided stem, leaves collected in a circle at the extremity of the branch and deeper toothed, undulated and purple in the winter, flowers growing in longer racemes. The peduncles of the flowers are horizontal, of the fruit assurgent. The flowers, which appear in May, are sweet-scented. Is propagated by seeds or by cuttings.

This print comes from our Curtis archive (via the Royal Horticultural Society and Wheldon & Wesley). Sold as an original historic plate - please review photos for condition.