Plate 1054 - The Cinna- Mon Evening-flower

Plate 1054

Publication Information

Native Region: Europe, Cape of Good Hope

Description: N1054 Del

Pub by T W. W Curtis st Geo:st Geo st Geo st Geo Crescent Oct! 1. 1807 F. E. E. Sansom [ 1054 ] HEs
PERANTHA CINNAMOMEA. THE CINNA- MON EVENING-FLOWER.

Class and Order
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character
.-Vid. Num. 790, et in Annals of Botany, v. 1. p. 224, et General Index, p. 38.

Specific Character and Synonyms
. HEsPERANTHA cinnamomea; soliis falcato-enfatis, inferi. oribus crifpatis; spatharum valva extima herbacea, naviculari-conduplicata, ftriata; corolla erecta; limbo rotato-patente; an- theris vibratilibus; stigmatibus usque ad tubum discretis, infra stamina (quibus brevioribus) effufis. G. IXIA cinnamomea. HEsPERANTHA cinnamomea. Nobis, Ann. of Bot. 1. 225. Thunb. Diff. de Ixia, n. 9. cum tab. Prod. Linn. Suppl. 92. Willd. sp. Pl. 1. 9. 199. Vahl Enum. 2. 56. This very rare plant can only be distinguished from its con- gener falcata (fupra No. 566) by the curling or undulation of the lower leaves, by having stigmas much shorter inftead of equal to or longer than the stamens, in being altogether a smaller plant than that, and in having a different kind of fragrance, which to us appears to resemble that of the oil of cloves. In all other respects the description and what relates to falcata, as given above (No. 566), will entirely apply to cinnamomea. Our drawing was made from a specimen imported this year from the Cape of Good Hope, by Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY, of Hammerfmith, with whom it flowered very probably for the frt time in Europe. Falcata has been perpetually mistaken for the present species; and, perhaps, after all they are mere varieties of each other. G.


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N1054 Del Pub by T W Curtis st Geo:st Geo st Geo Crescent Oct! 1. 1807 F. E. Sansom sculp

[ 1054 ] HEsPERANTHA CINNAMOMEA. THE CINNA- MON EVENING-FLOWER. ***** ****** Class and Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.-Vid. Num. 790, et in Annals of Botany, v. 1. p. 224, et General Index, p. 38. specific Character and synonyms. HEsPERANTHA cinnamomea; soliis falcato-enfatis, inferi. oribus crifpatis; spatharum valva extima herbacea, naviculari-conduplicata, ftriata; corolla erecta; limbo rotato-patente; an- theris vibratilibus; stigmatibus usque ad tubum discretis, infra stamina (quibus brevioribus) effufis. G. IXIA cinnamomea. HEsPERANTHA cinnamomea. Nobis, Ann. of Bot. 1. 225. Thunb. Diff. de Ixia, n. 9. cum tab. Prod. Linn. Suppl. 92. Willd. sp. Pl. 1. 9. 199. Vahl Enum. 2. 56. This very rare plant can only be distinguished from its con- gener falcata (fupra No. 566) by the curling or undulation of the lower leaves, by having stigmas much shorter inftead of equal to or longer than the stamens, in being altogether a smaller plant than that, and in having a different kind of fragrance, which to us appears to resemble that of the oil of cloves. In all other respects the description and what relates to falcata, as given above (No. 566), will entirely apply to cinnamomea. Our drawing was made from a specimen imported this year from the Cape of Good Hope, by Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY, of Hammerfmith, with whom it flowered very probably for the frt time in Europe. Falcata has been perpetually mistaken for the present species; and, perhaps, after all they are mere varieties of each other. 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

Original botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine