Plate 1053 - Pale-flowered

Plate 1053

Publication Information

Native Region: Cape of Good Hope

Description: N1053. Powards Del

Pub by T. W. W Curtis st Geo st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent Oct:1. 1807. ulp. [ 1053 ]
BABIANA SULPHUREA. BABIANA. PALE-FLOWERED

Class and Order
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

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

Specific Character and Synonyms
. BABIANA sulphurea; soliis totis villofis ; scapo affurgenter inclinato his longiore; media spatharum valva duplo longiore; tubo hac breviore; limbo fubregulari, erecto, patentiffimo; laciniis ovatis oblongis, tubo fubtriplo longioribus ; staminibus fubadfcendentibus. G. BABIANA sulphurea. Nobis fupra No. 1019. pag. alt. uti et in Annals of Bot. 1. 234. GLADIOLUS sulphureus. Jacq. Coll. 3. 258. Ic. Rar. 2. 239. Vahl Enum. 2. 99. GLADIOLUS plicatus. Bot. Rep. tab. 268. GLADIOLUS pigmæus. Burm. Flore Cap. 1.? 46. ? Pluk. t. 424. f. 8.? Houtt. 11.

 It is very difficult to define with any precifion the specific difference between this and stricta; yet we think them distinct species. Besides general appearance, the stamens are here fubadfcendent, not entirely trifarious, neither is the corolla precisely regular; the segments are also proportionately longer than the tube. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was imported some years ago by Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY of Hammerfmith. Seems to us intermediate between stricta and plicata. G.


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N1053. Powards Del Pub by T. W Curtis st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent Oct:1. 1807. ulp.

[ 1053 ] BABIANA SULPHUREA. BABIANA. ******* PALE-FLOWERED ****** Class and Order. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.-Vid. Nos. 576 & 680, et Annals of Botany, 1. p. 233. specific Character and synonyms. BABIANA sulphurea; soliis totis villofis ; scapo affurgenter inclinato his longiore; media spatharum valva duplo longiore; tubo hac breviore; limbo fubregulari, erecto, patentiffimo; laciniis ovatis oblongis, tubo fubtriplo longioribus ; staminibus fubadfcendentibus. G. BABIANA sulphurea. Nobis fupra No. 1019. pag. alt. uti et in Annals of Bot. 1. 234. GLADIOLUS sulphureus. Jacq. Coll. 3. 258. Ic. Rar. 2. 239. Vahl Enum. 2. 99. GLADIOLUS plicatus. Bot. Rep. tab. 268. GLADIOLUS pigmæus. Burm. Flore Cap. 1.? 46. ? Pluk. t. 424. f. 8.? Houtt. 11. It is very difficult to define with any precifion the specific difference between this and stricta; yet we think them distinct species. Besides general appearance, the stamens are here fubadfcendent, not entirely trifarious, neither is the corolla precisely regular; the segments are also proportionately longer than the tube. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was imported some years ago by Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY of Hammerfmith. Seems to us intermediate between stricta and plicata. 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