Soapbush, clidemia or Koster's curse, Miconia crenata. Clidemia hirta. Native to Jamaica, sent by Barr and Brookes of Northampton Nursery, Islington. Large blue-fruited melastoma, Melastoma hirta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1818.

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