Sticky monkey-flower or orange bush monkey-flower, Diplacus aurantiacus. Orange monkey-flower, Mimulus aurantiacus. Native to North America, introduced by James Colvill, nurseryman of King’s Road, Chelsea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Stephen Couchman, London, 1796.

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