Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 1022 - Lantana annua (Annual Lantana) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 1022, Lantana annua (Annual Lantana).

• Plate: 1022
• Latin name: Lantana annua
• Common name: Annual Lantana
• Native region: West-India Isles and South-America
• Flowering: August
• Flower colour: Pale Lilac
• Linnaean class / order: Didynamia / Angiospermia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 1022 ]

LANTANA ANNUA. ANNUAL LANTANA.

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Class and Order.
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.
Cal. obsolete 4-dentatus. Cor. limbus 4-fidus, fauce pervia. Stigma uncinato-refractum. Drupa nuce 2-loculari, levi.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
LANTANA annua; foliis oppositis caule inermi, spicis oblongis. Spec. Pl. 864. Hort. Upf. 180. Mant. 419. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 316. Reichb. 3. p. 165. Mart. Mill. Dict. a. 4. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 350. LANTANA trifolia; foliis ternis, spicis oblongis imbricatis, floribus carneo-violacei, fauce flava. Medicus in Ach. Palat. v. 3. Phyt. p. 222. ? The West-India Isles and the warmer parts of the continent of South-America contain many species of Lantana, most of which grow into shrubs of considerable height; this is an annual plant, but with an almost woody stem. The flowers are of a pale lilac colour with a yellow throat and not changeable, as those of LANTANA aculeata, No. 96, and several others are; the spikes, which are at first hemispherical, become afterwards oblong. Introduced before 1732, by Dr. Wm. Houston, as appears by Miller's specimen preserved in the Bankian Herbarium. Being an annual and not very readily producing ripe seeds in this country, it was probably of short duration; and we find no further trace of it, till seeds were brought from Spain, with many other curious plants, by Lord Holland, from whose collection at Holland-House our drawing was taken in August last. We believe it has never before been figured. Propagated by seeds only.

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