Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 804 - Albuca major (Larger Albuca) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 804, Albuca major (Larger Albuca).

• Plate: 804
• Latin name: Albuca major
• Common name: Larger Albuca
• Native region: Cape of Good Hope
• Linnaean class / order: Hexandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Jan 1 1805
• Artist: S. Edwards
• Engraver: T. Curtis
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 804 ]

ALBUCA MAJOR. LARGER ALBUCA.

. . .

Class and Order.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. N°. 720.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
ALBUCA major foliis lato-subulatis, canaliculatis, firmulis; pedunculis firmioribus, patentibus. G. Catera ALBUCÆ minoris, N°. 720, à qua ægre distinguenda nisi statura robustiore bulboque sobolsum nonnihil feraciore. ALBUCA major. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 438. Dryand. Aif. Holm. 1784. p. 293. Thumb. ibid. 1786. p. 57. prod. 65. Marl. Mill. Dict. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 99. facq. ic. rar. 2. t. 443. Col. Suppl. 06. Redouté Lil. t. 69. ALBUCA lutea (a). Lamarck Dict. Encyc. 1. 76. ORNITHOGALUM canadense. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 308. ORNITHOGALUM luteo-virens indicum. Corn. Canad. 160. Rudb. Elyf. 2. p. 140. f. 7. Mor. Hift. 2. p. 423. f. 4. t. 24. f. 7. Scarcely to be distinguished from minor but by its more robust stature and upright growth, as also perhaps by a bulb more apt to produce numerous offsets and somewhat smaller in proportion to the plant than that of minor; hence we may refer our readers to the description of that species given p. 720. Our plant was formerly thought to be of Canadian origin, but is now well known to be a native of the Cape of Good Hope; was introduced here by Mr. WILLIAM MALCOLM, in 1767. Our drawing was made at Mr. SALISBURY'S Botanic Garden, Brompton. G. CORRIGENDUM. In charactere specifico ALBUCÆ minoris. N°. 720, pro "Stigmatibus trigono-obscuris, acutis, papillosus," lege "Styl. trigono-obscurico papilloyo-birtis; stigmute sulcuberciferis." G.

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