Jungle geranium, flame of the woods, jungle flame or pendkuli, Ixora coccinea. Bandhooka ixora or Bandhuka, Ixora bandhuca. Native of Hindoostan (India), imported by Sir Abraham Hume in 1812. Specimen provided by George Loddiges of Hackney. 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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