27-08-2017, 06:08 PM
The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has an article dedicated to Oculus Cristi, among others there's Salvia mentioned above by JKP, but anyway the article is not very certain about the subject. Or, I'd rather say, too many plants seem to have been called that.
Now, looking at the BNF Lat 17844 at larger magnification, I'm less and less certain that it looks like the plant of the VMS. This is best recognized with the smallest flower which is turned to the reader, and thus its petals are better discerned. They are rounded, quite not what we see in VMS f17r.
Maybe the valuable part of the BNF Lat 17844 image is the visual "oculus Christi" key, so that the VMS plant is oculus Christi, but just "another one" of those.
Now, looking at the BNF Lat 17844 at larger magnification, I'm less and less certain that it looks like the plant of the VMS. This is best recognized with the smallest flower which is turned to the reader, and thus its petals are better discerned. They are rounded, quite not what we see in VMS f17r.
Maybe the valuable part of the BNF Lat 17844 image is the visual "oculus Christi" key, so that the VMS plant is oculus Christi, but just "another one" of those.