Oxblood lily, Rhodophiala bifida. Two-cleft habranthus, Habranthus bifidus. Native to Argentina, imported by Lord Carnarvon, drawn from a plant raised by gardener James Robert Gowen at Highclere Castle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by William Herbert from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1825.

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