Calibrachoa thymifolia. Narrow-leaved petunia, Petunia linearis. Native of Brazil, found in Buenos Ayres by Scottish plant hunter John Tweedie. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2, Orr, London, 1836.

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