Purslane, Cistanthe grandiflora. Seeds brought to the Horticultural Society from Chile by Scottish botanist James Macrae in 1826. Great flowered calandrinia, Calandrinia grandiflora. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 1, Orr and Smith, London, 1834.

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