Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 1052 - Babiana stricta (Purple-flowered Babiana) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 1052, Babiana stricta (Purple-flowered Babiana).

• Plate: 1052
• Latin name: Babiana stricta
• Common name: Purple-flowered Babiana
• Native region: Cape of Good Hope
• Flower colour: Purple
• Linnaean class / order: Triandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 1052 ]

BABIANA STRICTA (γ.) PURPLE-FLOWERED BABIANA.

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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 stricta. Vid. supra Nos. 621 & 637, rejectio synonymo IXIAE villosae. Jacq. Coll. & Ic. Rar. quae nostra BABIANA obtusifolia. Vid. supra 1019. (γ) corolla purpurea. G. BABIANA purpurea. Nobis supra No. 1019. pag. alt. IXIA purpurea. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 2. t. 286. Coll. 3. 268. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 108. GLADIOLUS strictus. Vahl Enum. 2. 118. GLADIOLUS purpureus. Id. l. c. 2. 114. IXIA villosa. β. Mart. Mill. Dict. As the present plant had been already enumerated by JACQUIN and ourselves as a distinct species, we wished to have continued it such; but, upon comparing the living plants, could detect no one mark of specific difference, nor indeed any difference whatsoever, except colour and scent; 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 Messrs. LEE and KENNEDY, from the Cape of Good Hope.

It would be rather difficult to select a good specific difference between this and rubro cyanea. G.

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