Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 1047 - Moraea tenuis (Brown-flowered Moraea) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 1047, Moraea tenuis (Brown-flowered Moraea).

• Plate: 1047
• Latin name: Moraea tenuis
• Common name: Brown-flowered Moraea
• Flower colour: Brown
• Linnaean class / order: Triandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Sep
• Artist: S. Edwards
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 1047 ]

MORAEA TENUIS. BROWN-FLOWERED MORAEA.

. . .

Class and Order.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. Nos. 593, 612, & 694.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
MORAEA tenuis (barbata; sigmata petaloîdea) folio glabre, fubunico; caule culmaceo, tenui, simplici, vel ramolo; corollae laminis extimis integerrimis, recurvatim deflexis, fuis unguibus triplo-longioribus; his unguibus intimis duplo-brevioribus, bafi scrobiaulatim melliferis; laminis intimis parvulis, tridentatim partitis, dente media spiraliter involuta; filamentis unguibus longioribus aequalibuv, deorfum connatis, furlum columnariter conniveentibus. G. IRIS tricuspis. Var. minor. Jacq. Ic. rar. v. 2. tab. 222. DESCR. Leaf one, subradical, narrow, linear-lorate, convolute-concave, smooth, shorter than the stem; culpidately-caudate; stem culmaceous, two feet or more high, simple or with one or two branchlets, upright, round, slender, stiffikh, geniculate, sheathed at the joints (which are generally two) by a fingle spathelike short leaf, upwards clastic, filiform; floral fascicle about three inches long, narrow-lanceolate, round, green, smooth, the general involucre or upper valve nearly twice the shortest; pedicles enclobed; flowers 2-3 in succession, scentless, not ephemeral as in most species of this genus, but lasting six or eight days; corolla, Iris-like, hexapetalously parted, most unequal; ungues from upright slightly turbinately diverging, concave, outer ones glandularly-bearded, twice the broadest, shorter, with a small indentation at their bafe, overflowing

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.