Plate 1017 - Oil-seed Verbesina

Plate 1017

Publication Information

Flowering Period: May - August - September

Description: No 1017 syd Edwards W. W Curtis S&Geo. st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent May 1, 1807 F. E. E. Sansom [ 1017 ]
VERBESINA SATIVA. OIL-SEED VERBESINA. Class and Order. sYNGENESIA superFLUA.

Generic Character
. Recept. paleaceum. Pappus aristatus. Cal. duplici ordine. Flosculi radii circiter 5. specific Character and synonym. VERBESINA sativa; (oppositisolia) soliis cordato-lanceolatis amplexicaulibus remote serratis, calycibus simplicibus pentaphyllis. VERBESINA sativa. Roxb. Pl. Corom. inedit. This plant having a simple five-leaved calyx and seeds, if we mistake not, without an arista, can hardly be considered as a true Verbesina; but as long as VERBESINA calendulacea, of which it seems to be a real congener, is suffered to remain in that genus, this need not be excluded. We are informed by Dr. ROXBURGH, to whom the Botanic Garden at Brompton is indebted for seeds of this hitherto undescribed vegetable, that it is cultivated in the Myfore country and several other parts of India, for the sake of an oil expressed from the seeds, which serves as a substitute for that of Sesamum. Communicated by Mr. SALIsBURY, of Brompton, in whose stove it flowered in August and September; but might be raised on a hot-bed in the spring, and treated as other tender annuals are.


Raw OCR Text (Original)

No 1017 syd Edwards Pub by T. W Curtis S&Geo. st Geo st Geo Crescent May 1, 1807 F. E. Sansom

[ 1017 ] VERBESINA SATIVA. OIL-SEED VERBESINA. ** ****** Class and Order. sYNGENESIA superFLUA. Generic Character. Recept. paleaceum. Pappus ariftatus. Cal. duplici ordine. Flofculi radii circiter 5. specific Character and synonym. VERBESINA Jativa; (oppofitisolia) soliis cordato-lanceolatis amplexicaulibus remote ferratis, calycibus fimplicibus pentaphyllis. VERBESINA fativa. Roxb. Pl. Corom. inedit. This plant having a simple five-leaved calyx and seeds, if we mistake not, without an arifta, can hardly be considered as a true Verbefina; but as long as VERBESINA calendulacea, of which it seems to be a real congener, is fuffered to remain in that genus, this need not be excluded. We are informed by Dr. ROXBURGH, to whom the Botanic Garden at Brompton is indebted for seeds of this hitherto undescribed vegetable, that it is cultivated in the Myfore country and several other parts of India, for the fake of an oil expreffed from the seeds, which ferves as a substitute for that of Sefamum. Communicated by Mr. SALIsBURY, of Brompton, in whofe stove it flowered in August and September; but might be raised on a hot-bed in the spring, and treated as other tender annuals are.

Plate Period: 1808-1810 - Mixed artist period
Typical Artists: S Curtis Del, W.J.H.del
Expected Publisher: S Curtis at Walworth
Publisher Location: St. George's Crescent, London - the original publisher address for Curtis's Botanical Magazine

Original botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine