Stenomesson pauciflorum. Native to western South America, introduced from Peru by Scottish plant collector James Cowan. Few-flowered chrysiphiala, Chrysiphiala pauciflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by John Lindlery from William Jackson Hooker's Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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