Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 833 - Eriocephalus africanus (Cluster-leaved Eriocephalus) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 833, Eriocephalus africanus (Cluster-leaved Eriocephalus).

• Plate: 833
• Latin name: Eriocephalus africanus
• Common name: Cluster-leaved Eriocephalus
• Linnaean class / order: Syngenesia / Polygamia Necessaria
• Publication: May 1, 1825
• Artist: S. Edwards
• Engraver: I. Curtis
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

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

[ 833 ]

ERIOCEPHALUS AFRICANUS. CLUSTER-LEAVED ERIOCEPHALUS.

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Class and Order.
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA.

Generic Character.
Recept. nudum. Pappus o. Cal. 10-phyllus, aequalis. Radii flosculi 5.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
ERIOCEPHALUS africanus: foliis integris divisifique, floribus corymbosis. Linn. Spec. Pl. 1310. Hort. Cliff. 424. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 278. Reich. 3. p. 938. ERIOCEPHALUS racemosus. Gaert. Fruct. 2. p. 428. t. 168. f. 7. ? ERIOCEPHALUS fempervirens, foliis falciculatis et digitatis. Dill. Elth. 132. t. 110. f. 134. ABROTANUM africanum foliis argenteis anguftis, floribus umbellatis, capitulis tomentofis. Raii Hift. 3. p. 232. ABROTANUM africanum folio tereti tridentato. Walth Hort. 1. t. 1. We have very little doubt but that GAERTNER's figure really belongs to our plant, though supposed by him to be ERIOCEPHALUS racemosus, which has very short peduncles growing in long racemes, and not several, in a fort of umbel at the extremity of the branch, as in our species, in which there are also frequently a few fingle flowers growing on peduncles longer than the folitary leaves or bracles towards the extremity of the branch, from the axils of which they issue. As he had only dry flowers to examine, it is not to be wondered at that GAERTNER did not find a double calyx; what he takes to be the

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