Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 554

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-COMMON_NAMES- Trumpet-flowered Massonia
-GENUS- Massonia
-SPECIES- Massonia ensifolia
-CLASS- Hexandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- Gawler

-MODERN_GENUS- Polyxena 
-MODERN_SPECIES- Polyxena pygmaea
-MODERN_FAMILY- Liliaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- pale violet or purple
-SEASON- October or November
-NATIVE_REGION- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 16
-PUB_DATE- 1802
-REISSUED-  
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0413 IMG0048.PCD