Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 822 - Drimia elata (Tall Drimia) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 822, Drimia elata (Tall Drimia).

• Plate: 822
• Latin name: Drimia elata
• Common name: Tall Drimia
• Native region: Cape of Good Hope
• Flowering: Summer
• Linnaean class / order: Hexandria / Monogynia
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 822 ]

DRIMIA ELATA. TALL DRIMIA.

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Class and Order.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. fexpartita, breviter tubulofo-connivens, longius revoluto-reflexa. Stam. infra corollæ adnata. Stigm. trilobo-capitatum, vel obslolete triplex. Cupl. membranacea, verticali-oblonga, subtriquetra. Sem. pauça, oblonga. G. Obs. Radix fquamato- vel fubfquamatz-bulbosa, magis minufvæ e terra prominens; qua nec fincerior distinguit genus nota ab HYACINTHO cujus bulbus tunicatus atque subterraneus. G.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
DRIMIA elata fcapo elato foliis præcociore; iftis lanceolato-atque verticali-loraris, concaviufculis, glabris; racemo multilloro, fpicato-oblongo, confertiufculo; organis conniventer porredtis. G. DRIMIA elata. Jacq. le. Rar. 2. t. 373. Coll. Suppl. 38. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 165. BULBUS liliaceus vomitorius Capitis Bonæ Spei. Breyn. Cent. 91. tab. 40. A genus eftablifhed by JACQUIN. One only of its fpecies appears to have been cultivated in the Kew Gardens, in the catalogue of which it ftands under HYACINTHUS, with the fpecific title of revolutus, and is now the undulata of this genus; the whole of which is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was named from the Greek word δρυμος, the juice of the roots being (as we are told by JACQUIN) to very acrid as, when applied to the fkin, to caufle inflammation and even blifters. The drawing of our plant was taken at Mr. WILLIAMS'S Nurfery, Turnham-Green, the only place we ever faw it at. Requires the treatment of the hardier Cape bulbs, with which it will flower freely in the fummer months. A very full defcription of it is to be found in the Collectanea of JACQUIN. The whole plant is frequently of much greater magnitude than the fpecimen from which our figure was taken. G.

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