Flowering grass, Freesia laxa. Native to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Blood-spotted anomatheca, Anomatheca cruenta. Handcoloured engraving from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 1, Orr and Smith, London, 1834.

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