Plate 1052 - Purple-flowered Babiana

Plate 1052

Publication Information

Native Region: Cape of Good Hope

Description: V1052 sy d.Edwards Del. Fubby T W. W Curtis st Geo st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent Oct 1. 1807 E. E. Sansom [ 1052 ] BABIANA sTRICTA (y.) PURPLE-FLOWERED BABIANA.

Class and Order
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character
.-Vid. Nos. 576 & 680, et Annals of Botany, 1. 233.

Specific Character and Synonyms
.-Vid. Nos. 621 & 637. BABIANA frita. Vid. fupra Nos. 621 & 637, rejecto syno- nymo IXIE villofæ. Jacq. Coll. & Ic. Rar. que noftra BABIANA obtufisolia. Vid. fupra 1019. (y) corolla purpurea. G. BABIANA purpurea. Nobis fupra No. 1019. pag. alt. IXIA purpurea. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 2. t. 286. Coll. 3. 268. Willd. sp. Pl. 1. 198. GLADIOLUS ftriatus. Vahl Enum. 2. 118. GLADIOLUS purpureus. Id. l. c. 2. 114. IXIA villofa. 3. Mart. Mill. Dict.

 As the present plant had been already enumerated by JAC- QUIN and ourselves as a distinct species, we wished to have continued it such; upon comparing the living plants, could detect no one rk of specific difference, nor indeed any difference whatever, except colour and fcent; we have therefore reduced it to a variety of the present species, two of which have been already published by us. Our specimen was imported by Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY, from the Cape of Good Hope. It would be rather difficult to felect a good specific difference between this and rubre cyanea. G.


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V1052 sy d.Edwards Del. Fubby T W Curtis st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent Oct 1. 1807 E. Sansom sculp

[ 1052 ] BABIANA sTRICTA (y.) PURPLE-FLOWERED BABIANA. *************** Class and Order. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.-Vid. Nos. 576 & 680, et Annals of Botany, 1. 233. specific Character and synonyms.-Vid. Nos. 621 & 637. BABIANA frita. Vid. fupra Nos. 621 & 637, rejecto syno- nymo IXIE villofæ. Jacq. Coll. & Ic. Rar. que noftra BABIANA obtufisolia. Vid. fupra 1019. (y) corolla purpurea. G. BABIANA purpurea. Nobis fupra No. 1019. pag. alt. IXIA purpurea. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 2. t. 286. Coll. 3. 268. Willd. sp. Pl. 1. 198. GLADIOLUS ftriatus. Vahl Enum. 2. 118. GLADIOLUS purpureus. Id. l. c. 2. 114. IXIA villofa. 3. Mart. Mill. Dict. As the present plant had been already enumerated by JAC- QUIN and ourselves as a distinct species, we wished to have continued it such; upon comparing the living plants, could detect no one rk of specific difference, nor indeed any difference whatever, except colour and fcent; we have therefore reduced it to a variety of the present species, two of which have been already published by us. Our specimen was imported by Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY, from the Cape of Good Hope. It would be rather difficult to felect a good specific difference between this and rubre cyanea. G.

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
Artist Information: delineavit (Latin: 'drawn by') - indicates the artist who drew the botanical illustration

Original botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine