Large-flowered monsonia, Monsonia speciosa, with large pink flowers.

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Large-flowered monsonia, Monsonia speciosa, with large pink flowers. A native of the Cape, South Africa. Illustration by Henrietta Moriarty from "Fifty Plates of Greenhouse Plants" (1807), a re-issue of her own "Viridarium" (1806), with handcoloured copperplate engravings. Moriarty was a colonel's widow who turned to writing novels and illustrating botanical books to support her four children.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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