New purple shrubby nightshade, Solanum houstonii (Solanum amazonium). Native of Mexico,, introduced by botanist and topographer Aylmer Bourke Lambert of Boyton House, drawn at Chelsea Physic Garden. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Smith after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from his own Botanical Register, J. Ridgeway, London, 1815.

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