Tiger flower, Cypella herbertii. Mr. George Herbert's tiger-flower, Tigridia herberti. Native to Argentina, flowered for the first time in Europe at Rev. George Herbert's conservatory at Burghclere. 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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