Tropical milkweed, bloodflower or Curassoa swallow-wort, Asclepias curassavica. Native of Jamaica and the West Indies, drawn from a specimen from Lady Aylesford’s garden at Stanmore. 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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