Downy-flowered witsenia, Witsenia maura. Sent from South Africa by Scottish botanist Francis Masson to Kew Gardens. Named for Dutch botany patron Nicolaas Witsen. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Sansom after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from his own Botanical Register, J. Ridgeway, London, 1815.

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