Curtis Botanical - Plate 1032 - Chorizema nanum / Dwarf Chorizema

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 1032, Chorizema nanum (Dwarf Chorizema).

• Plate: 1032
• Latin name: Chorizema nanum
• Common name: Dwarf Chorizema
• Native region: New Holland
• Flower colour: Yellow
• Linnaean class / order: Decandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Poly 1 1803
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 1032 ]

CHORIZEMA NANUM. DWARF CHORIZEMA.

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Class and Order.
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cal. tubulosus, 2-labiatus: labium superius emarginatum; labium inferius 3-fidum laciniis acutis. Cor. papilionacea, carina brevissima. Stylus recurvus. Legumen oblongum polyspernum.

Specific Character.
and Synonym. CHORIZEMA nanum; caule erecto flexuoso, foliis ovalibus obtufis spinoso-dentatis. PULTENÆA nana. Bot. Repos. t. 434. DESCR. A minute shrub with upright flexuose stem, hardly exceeding five or six inches in height. Leaves alternate, rigid, holly-like, elliptic, elliptic, obtuse with undulated spinous margins. Stipules minute spines at the angles of the stem and the peduncle. Flowers papilionaceous, distant, on longish flexuose racemes growing from the axils of the leaves: pedicles very short, mostly recurved. Calyx tubular, two-lipped: upper lip broad emarginate: lower lip shorter than upper, three-toothed: teeth equal, acute. Standard large, emarginate, reflected, yellow with a red, streaked star at the bafe: wings as long as the standard, very narrow, pendulous, crimson-coloured: keel not half the length of the wings, white with purple tips. Stamens ten, distinct: anthers globular, white. Germen ovate-acuminate, villous; style short, recurved; stigma truncate. M. LABILLARDIERE, who went on the voyage to the South-Sea in search of the unfortunate LA PEROUSE, has given the first account of this genus in his relation of that voyage. To this species, which he found on the fouth-west coast of New-Holland, he gave the appellation of CHORIZEMA ilicifolium, deriving its specific name from the resemblance of its leaves to those

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