Chorizema ovatum. Native to south-west New Holland (Australia), introduced by Scottish plant hunter William Baxter in 1831. Ovate-leaved chorizema, Chorizema ovata. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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