Silverleafed princess flower, Tibouchina heteromalla (Wooly leaved melastoma, Melastoma heteromalla). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1822.

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