Native rosella or various-leaved hibiscus, Hibiscus heterophyllus. Native of New South Wales, Australia, discovered by brutal Scottish soldier Colonel William Paterson on the banks of the Hawkesbury River. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Smith after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from his own Botanical Register, J. Ridgeway, London, 1815.

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