Caption:
Chile nettle, Caiophora lateritia. Native to South America, raised in Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds sent by Scottish botanist James Tweedie from Tucuman, Argentina. Red-flowered loasa, Loasa lateritia. Handcoloured lithograph from Joseph Paxtons Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5, Orr and Smith, London, 1838.