Butterfly flower, Schizanthus grahamii. Found in the Chilean Andes by Scottish botanist Dr. John Gillies and sent to Barclay at Bury Hill. Blunt-petalled schizanthus, Schizanthus retusus. 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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