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El Jardín Botánico Del Instituto Provincial De COMUNICACIONES CIENTÍFICAS 83 EL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO DEL INSTITUTO PROVINCIAL DE MÁLAGA Blanca Díez Garretas, Numeraria de la Academia Malagueña de Ciencias y Blanca Lasso de la Vega, Jardín Botánico de la Concepción, Málaga INTRODUCCIÓN eclesiástica del año 18364. En 1846 se crea el Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza, n 1739 el segundo conde de según el plan de estudios de 1845. El jardín Buenavista donó a la Congregación era responsabilidad de la Cátedra de Historia de San Felipe Neri unas casas Natural, siendo fundamental para la docencia. EE 1 situadas en calle Gaona . Años más tarde (1750) El jardín va creciendo a la par que el Instituto se realiza un proyecto para la ampliación de la con el desarrollo de la colección de plantas iglesia y la construcción de una Casa de Estudios, vivas así como de las infraestructuras para en cuyos planos se ve un jardín que consta de 4 contenerlas y conservarlas, tales como un parterres rectangulares, enmarcados por un seto invernáculo con cubierta de hierro acristalada 2 que circundan una fuente (Fig. 1). A principios y un invernadero de salón5. del siglo XIX, durante el reinado de José I Bonaparte, el jardín cobra tal importancia que se La época de mayor prestigio del jardín se reconoció como “Jardín Botánico de Málaga”3. inicia con el profesor Aragoncillo, catedrático de Ciencias Naturales que se ocupa del Gabinete La Congregación de San Felipe fue de Historia Natural6. desapareciendo, hasta la desamortización Fig. 1. Plano de San Felipe Neri, 1750 84 BOLETÍN DE LA ACADEMIA MALAGUEÑA DE CIENCIAS Higinio Aragoncillo del Villar Nociones de Agricultura Teórico Práctica, (Villaluenga, Zaragoza, 1823-Málaga, 1875) clave para la obtención de los títulos de perito era doctor en Ciencias Naturales y Fisiología agrimensor y tasador de tierras10. e Higiene. En 1849 fue nombrado catedrático Aragoncillo se adaptó perfectamente a interino de Elementos de Historia Natural del la vida social y científi ca malagueña, fue socio Instituto de Orense, donde, según la memoria fundador de la Sociedad Malagueña de Ciencias de dicho Instituto, sentó las bases para realizar Físicas y Naturales desde su creación en 1872 y un jardín botánico oficial7. Apoyado por el formaba parte, como secretario o como jurado gobernador civil de entonces inició sus primeros de las exposiciones fl orales organizadas por ensayos “en un terreno arrendado por él mismo, la Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País y donde cultivaba 400 semillas que había traído del el Liceo11. El Gabinete de Historia Natural y botánico de Madrid”8. Cuando marchó de allí, se el Jardín Botánico “cobraron mayor relevancia decía del jardín que: era un establecimiento como desde su llegada”12. Durante los últimos años pocos hay en España, de hecho, obtuvo un premio de docencia trabajaba con él, el jardinero y medalla en la exposición de Santiago. Así Juan López Burgos13, que era muy conocido mismo hizo un herbario recolectado y ordenado en la ciudad por los premios recibidos en las por él, uno de los primeros de la zona, del que se exposiciones de Floricultura, destacando por la da cuenta en el libro de Seoane, Bosquejo histórico colección de dalias, hortensias y plantas útiles14. de la Botánica española: Entre los muchos herbarios que se han formado en España, merecen citarse los Aragoncillo era zoólogo y en Orense ya de... Aragoncillo en Orense 9. reunió una colección entomológica notoria. En Málaga amplió y desarrollo con gran Higinio Aragoncillo llegó a Málaga en acierto el Gabinete de Historia Natural y en la 1858 para desarrollar la docencia en la Cátedra y Memoria del Instituto de 1873 se habla de que Gabinete de Historia Natural. Aquí se encontró los Gabinetes merecen: los elogios de las personas con un Jardín Botánico oficial, conocido y inteligentes y de los muchos extranjeros que nos visitado, que utilizaba como espacio para sus honran con visitarlos15. alumnos de Ciencias Naturales y para los de Fig. 2. Vista del jardín a mediados del siglo XX. Archivo Temboury COMUNICACIONES CIENTÍFICAS 85 En 1876 leemos en una memoria del distribuidos en 87 familias21. La ordenación de Instituto Provincial sobre el Jardín Botánico: las mismas seguía el sistema de clasifi cación de Agustín Pyramus de Candolle (1806-1893) Hacía tiempo que la falta de recursos y el mal que en su obra Théorie élémentaire de la Botanique estado de salud del Catedrático de Historia natural (1813) expuso las bases para una clasifi cación de D. Higinio Aragoncillo, no había permitido atender las plantas siguiendo un sistema natural (Fig. a las mejoras, que imperiosamente reclamaba esta 3). dependencia del establecimiento tan necesaria para el estudio de la Botánica. Con la cooperación El catálogo, después de esta revisión, en del ilustrado Catedrático y vicedirector D. Vicente la que se han eliminado las especies repetidas, Andújar, y aceptando los fi nos ofrecimientos del los sinónimos y aquellas que no hemos Exmo. Sr. D. Tomás Heredia, para que se dispusiera podido identifi car, consta de 93 familias y de los notables ejemplares que en fl ores y arbustos 461 taxones. De ellos, un 25% corresponde a posee en su magnífi ca hacienda de San José, hemos plantas americanas, estando particularmente conseguido dar a nuestro jardín un gran impulso bien representadas las de América central y que será mucho más conocido la próxima primavera, del sur; también tienen buena representación pues que contendrá sobre 400 plantas de gran las plantas de la región Mediterránea (17%) y mérito, cuyos pormenores constan en el catálogo las europeas (15%), seguidas de las que tienen respectivo16. un área euroasiática, y africana. Cabe resaltar la escasez de las plantas de distribución En el Jardín Botánico la adquisición de australiana. nuevas plantas era continua, año tras año se iba enriqueciendo en especies y de ello se daba Las familias mejor representadas cuenta en las memorias anuales: se han adquirido corresponden a Compuestas, Labiadas y para enriquecer el jardín botánico 142 individuos Solanáceas, en esta última resalta el género de plantas notables, distribuidos en 49 especies, Solanum con 13 especies procedentes de y 52 cajitas de semillas de variedades importantes diversos continentes. de Botánica17 (Fig. 2). La procedencia de estas Respecto al tipo de plantas del jardín, plantas era diversa: unas eran solicitadas a podemos señalar que una parte importante de viveros, otras correspondían a donaciones la colección correspondía a plantas de utilidad realizadas por particulares18, y también se agrícola, hay que tener en cuenta que una de las proveían de semillas solicitadas al Real Jardín fi nalidades de este jardín era la docencia. Botánico de Madrid; de hecho, el catálogo de plantas que se presenta en este artículo iba Entre los taxones cultivados podemos acompañado de otro listado de 150 semillas: destacar los destinados a alimentación se han traído del Jardín Botánico de Madrid para humana con aprovechamiento de raíces, completar las familias de que se compone el de esta rizomas, hojas, tallos, fl ores, frutos o semillas Escuela, debidamente clasifi cadas19. Por último, o a la producción de aceites (olivo, girasol, una pequeña parte de las especies venía de su cártamo), otras dedicadas a la alimentación lugar de origen, al menos en forma de semilla: animal con numerosas plantas de interés Hemos tenido ocasión de experimentar durante dos forrajero, particularmente entre las gramíneas cosechas con semillas de tabaco procedentes de la y leguminosas. Destacan también las Habana20. tintóreas y aquellas que proporcionan fi bras textiles para la fabricación de tejidos o para CATÁLOGO ACTUALIZADO DE LAS cordelería. Muchas tienen interés ornamental PLANTAS DEL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO SEGÚN y los aceites esenciales de algunas se utilizan LA MEMORIA DEL CURSO ACADÉMICO en perfumería o como aromatizante de vinos 1861-1862 y licores. También son importantes las que se usan de manera tradicional en medicina El Jardín Botánico situado en el Instituto popular por sus propiedades, algunas son de 2ª enseñanza de Málaga tenía una extensión tóxicas y pueden ocasionar la muerte del que de 1.145 m2 y estaba dividido en ocho cuadros las ingiere. dispuestos en platabandas. El catálogo, según la En el jardín botánico también se cultivaban memoria del curso académico 1861-62, siendo especies poco frecuentes en los jardines de hoy, director D. Francisco Paula de Sola, incluía entre las que podemos citar: 488 taxones (especies, variedades, cultivares) 86 BOLETÍN DE LA ACADEMIA MALAGUEÑA DE CIENCIAS Fig. 3. Páginas de la Memoria del Instituto con el catálogo de las plantas cultivadas Acanthaceae: Justicia furcata Jacq., Amaranthaceae: Gomphrena serrata L., Labiatae: Salvia pulchella DC., Malvaceae: Abutilon indicum (Link) Sweet, Abutilon abutiloides (Jacq.) Garcke ex Hochr., Kearnemalvastrum lacteum (Aiton) D.M. Bates, Malvastrum americanum (L.) Torr., Phymosia abutiloides (L) Desv. ex Ham., Sphaeralcea angustifolia (Cav.) G. Don, Onagraceae: Clarkia pulchella Pursh, Gaura mutabilis Cav., Papaveraceae: Argemone gracilenta Greene, Phytolaccaceae: Phytolacca rivinoides Kunth. & C.D. Bouché Solanaceae: Solanum bahamense L., Solanum capsicoides All., Solanum cinereum R. Br., Solanum heterantherum Fig. 4. Imagen actual de los restos del Witasek ex Reiche, Solanum radicans L. f., Jardín Botánico Verbenaceae: Glandularia peruviana (L.). Esta riqueza en plantas llegó a El catálogo se ha actualizado, corrigiendo incrementarse de forma notable, según el la nomenclatura de los taxones, añadiendo comentario de MERCIER & DE LA CERDA (1866) en el nombre vulgar, distribución geográfi ca, la obra Guía de Málaga y su provincia: El Jardín propiedades o utilización de los mismos y Botánico cuenta con setecientas plantas clasifi cadas toxicidad de algunos. El nombre actual va y colocadas por familias con su correspondiente seguido de su autor/es y entre corchetes invernadero. La situación actual dista mucho el que se cita en el catálogo, cuando no son de aquellos momentos de esplendor y hoy coincidentes. También se ha puesto al día el día apenas se conservan algunas especies de nombre de las familias y cuando no coincide, aquella época (Fig.
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