Australian Willow-leaved Crowea saligna. Original antique botanical lithograph c1895

by Maiden, J.H.

Australian Crowea saligna was named by English botanist Henry Andrews (1743-1820). Named Crowea in honour of willow-collector British botanist James Crowe. Latin saligna meaning like a willow, alludes to the shape of the leaves. Of the Rutaceae family, and named Eriostemon Crowei by Ferdinand von Mueller, this slender shrub growns to a metre high in coast districts from the Illawarra to southern Queensland.

Scientific artist Richard Baker supervised artists E.W. Minchen and H.J.A. Baron for botanist Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925). Groups of the botanical lithographs with common and botanical names were published in Sydney between 1895 and 1898 by the New South Wales Department of Mines and Agriculture (Forest Branch), to increase public knowledge of the Colony's principal flowering shrubs, plants, ferns, and forest trees of economic value.

The page size is 240 x 180mm (9.5 x 7 inches). Image size is 225 x 150mm (9 x 6 inches).