North's false flag or walking iris, Trimezia northiana. Native to Brazil, introduced to the Horticultural Society in 1822. Captain Sabine's marica, Marica sabini. 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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