Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 708 - Hedychium coronarium (Sweet-Scented Garland-Flower) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 708, Hedychium coronarium (Sweet-Scented Garland-Flower).

• Plate: 708
• Latin name: Hedychium coronarium
• Common name: Sweet-Scented Garland-Flower
• Linnaean class / order: Monandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

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HEDYCHIUM CORONARIUM*. SWEET-SCENTED GARLAND-FLOWER.

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Class and Order.
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cal. 1-phyllus rumpens. Cor. tubus longissimus limbus 2-plex 3-partitus. Nect. 2-phyllum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
HEDYCHIUM coronarium. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 10. Kaenig apud Retz fasc. 5. p. 73. n. 20. GANDSULIUM. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 175. t. 69. f. 3. Lamarck Encyc. 2. p. 603. This very rare plant of the natural order of SCITAMINEAE or CANNAE of JUSSIEU, is not met with in MARTYN'S MILLER'S Dictionary, though fully described several years ago by KAENIG. What this author calls calyx we should confider as a spathe involving the separate flowers. Tube of corolla very long and soon becoming flaccid, which occasions the flower to droop. Limb divided into six segments, the three outer ones linear-lanceolate, keeled, regular, one or two of them reflected: the three inner segments are irregular and subject to considerable variation in their form, the upper one is much largest and obcordate. The whole flower is snow-white, except sometimes a greenish spot, in the centre of the largest segment. * A word compounded of Hyde sweet and Xion snow, from two of the qualities of the plant. Our English name is adopted from the German.

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.