Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 709 - Hypoxis serrata (Saw-leaved Hypoxis) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 709, Hypoxis serrata (Saw-leaved Hypoxis).

• Plate: 709
• Latin name: Hypoxis serrata
• Common name: Saw-leaved Hypoxis
• Native region: America; Cape
• Linnaean class / order: Hexandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Aug 1, 1804
• Artist: Syd. Edwards
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 709 ]

Hypoxis Serrata. Saw-Leaved Hypoxis.

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Class and Order.
Hexandria Monogynia.

Generic Character.
—Vid. Num. 662. Obs. L. C. Addendae. Americanis bulbus tunicatus, attenuatim elongatus, cuticulis membranaceis vestitus, fibris de margine basis orbiculatim erumpentibus ut in Hyacintho. Capenfibus rhizoma in speciebus varium, ratione gemma aut larvati bulbilli magnum, undique fibratum. Scapi successive plures, in quibusdam pedunculi filloslo-cavi, hirce fucili gradu apud proximam Gethylliaem transfuntes in tubos corallaceos, cum germen a fiamma et pedunculato gradatim per species medias in imum radicale dilabatur. Flos conminiter canaliculatus vel exeeptione rara cavo-tereti, flabambientis deorsunt completa vel complicata. Corolla coryna, post anthefin perflanter emnivens. Capsula inerrata verticali-ablonga, trigona, cuius difficuit portio superna inflar operculi circumcilse disrupta, dum scinditur partes laciniatim et reflexo-revoluvens senfim dimitit semina; ea numerosa, biseriatia, scabrata, nigrieanta, libera, receptaculo quosque libero, centrali, triquetre circumfunduntur. In fructu nondum plene maturato adjunt desfissimenta tria tenuiffima, et femina a funiculo umbilicali capillacea detineri videntur. G.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
Hypoxis ferrata: rhizomate subglobofo, annue renovato; fcapis articulatim unipedunculatis; braćteis ge-minatis, fibulatis; foliis glabris, aculeolis remotis retrorsis denticulato-ferrulatis vittaque argenteo-pallescente undata percurfis; stigmatibus turbi-natim fecedentibus. G. Hypoxis ferrata. Linn. Suppl. 197. Syft. 326. Hort. Kew. 1. 439. Mart. Mill. Dict. Thunb. Prod. 60. Jacq. Ic. rar. 2. t. 369. Coll. 4. 134. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 109. Fabricia ferrata. Thunb. in Fabr. It. Norw. 29. Rootftock annually reproduced, dark-brown, fubfphaeroid, hollowed out on the upper part for the bulb, throwing out fibres

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