Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 711 - Hypoxis sobolifera (Creeping Hypoxis) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 711, Hypoxis sobolifera (Creeping Hypoxis).

• Plate: 711
• Latin name: Hypoxis sobolifera
• Common name: Creeping Hypoxis
• Linnaean class / order: Hexandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Jan. 1, 1804
• Artist: S. Edwards del.
• Engraver: F. Sansom sculp.
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 711 ]

HYPOXIS SOBOLIFERA. CREEPING HYPOXIS.

. . .

Class and Order.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. No. 662 & 709.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
HYPOXIS sobolifera rhizomatibus supra convexis, infra in placentam solidam, craffam irregularem et torfo-multiplicipitem coadunato-prorepentibus; caule compreffo; foliis perennantibus hirto-villofis, canelcentibus; racemo 4–6-floro divaricatim subbraciatimque subfaftigiato. G. HYPOXIS sobolifera. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. t. 372. Coll. Suppl. 53. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 106. HYPOXIS villofa. Horl. Kew. 1. 439. ut in ejusdem auctorum exemplario in Herb. Bankf. videre eft. HYPOXIS Fabricia. Gartn. fruct. et fem. 1. 33. FABRICIA villofa. Var. 8ᵛᵃ fcapis longifimis bifidis pedunculis iterum diviſis foliis albido-hirfutis. Thumb. in Fabr. It. Norv. 31. OBS. Tres species, a Jacquino poftquam apte discriminatas et fcorlis exhibitas, sub fua villofa pro mutuuis inter se varietatibus comprehendebar. Thunbergius eas, motis propriis adjectis, adopimifmus. 1. HYPOXIS villofa. Jacq. rhizomatibus fobolilibus haud placentiformiter confluentibus; foliis fericeo-villofis. G. que var. 1ᵐᵃ. Thumb. cui prisfcum fervamus nomen. 2. HYPOXIS obliqua. Jacq. et Bal. Rep. t. 195, foliis fecundum dorfum villofis, villofo-ciliatis, fuobbliquis; fcapis fubtripeducnulatis et fubribracteatis. G. que ejufd. var. 2ᵈᵃ 3. HYPOXIS sobolifera. Jacq. supra. que sua var. 3ᵗᵘᵃ Although this is certainly the villofa of the Hortus Kewensis, yet, as three distinct species were comprehended by THUNBERG in his FABRICIA villofa (adopted by the authors of that work as the synonym of their plant) all which have since

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