Description | Botanical study of a specimen of clutia alaternoides. Described by Dr Jan Commelin in 'Horti medici Amstelodamensis', vol. 2 (1701), p.1. A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society ... 1731', by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 38, issue 427, p.1.
Leafy plant showing white flowers in bud. Inscribed in ink 'Alaternoides Africana, erica foliis, floribus albicantibus & muscosis H. Amst.' Not signed. |