Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 707 - Chironia decussata (Cross-leaved Chironia) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 707, Chironia decussata (Cross-leaved Chironia).

• Plate: 707
• Latin name: Chironia decussata
• Common name: Cross-leaved Chironia
• Flowering: continuing long in blossom
• Linnaean class / order: Pentandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 707 ]

CHIRONIA DECUSSATA. CROSS-LEAVED CHIRONIA.

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Class and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. rotata. Pistillum declinatum. Stam. tubo corolla infidentia. Anthere demum spirales. Per. 2-loculare,

Specific Character and Synonyms.
CHIRONIA decussata; fructicofa substomentofa; foliis confertis decussatis oblongis obtufis, calycibus globofis quinquepartitis. Ventenal Hort. Cels. 31. Monf. VENTENAT, in his accurate work, distinguishes this Chironia from the frutscens, No. 27 of the Botanical Magazine, by the stalk being more simple, the branches very short, the flowers larger, the calyx more globose and deeply divided into five segments, the leaves wider, more obtuse, growing in two ranks, and covered with a close short pubescence.

There are however so many intermediate varieties as to leave room for doubt whether it be a genuine species or not. It has been long known in our nurseries by the name of latifolia. Is a very ornamental greenhouse shrub, occupying but little space and continuing long in blossom.

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.