Small-flowered cuphea, Cuphea parviflora. Native to the Caribbean, sent from Demerara (Guyana) by West Indies merchant and slave owner Charles Stewart Parker in 1824. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.

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