Mountain flax or wharariki, Phormium colensoi, native to New Zealand. Imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. As Phormium colensoi-variegatum. Handcolored botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Worthington George Smith from Henry Honywood Dombrain's Floral Magazine, New Series, Volume 3, L. Reeve, London, 1874. Lithograph printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.

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