Mr. Tweedie's scarlet vervain, Verbena tweedieana. Found by plant hunter John Tweedie in bogs at Laguna de la Molina, Banda Oriental (Uruguay). Handcoloured botanical illustration engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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