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  • A plant (Trigonella species): flowering and fruiting stems with seed. Watercolour.
  • Bird's foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) and common vetch (Lathyrus pratensis): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Four Egyptian plants in a landscape, including purging cassia, French jujube or Chinese date, and a taro species. Line engraving, c. 1676.
  • Seven garden plants, including a fuchsia and monkey flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • A plant (Cynometra cauliflora L.): trunk bearing flowers and fruit, and separate floral sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Two flowering plants, one a legume and one a umbelliferous species. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A plant (Onobrychis sativa) related to holy clover): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1902.
  • Trefoil (Lotus gracilis): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate floral segments. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • A tropical plant (Brownea grandiceps) with large flower. Photograph.
  • Dhak or palas tree (Butea monosperma): flowering branch with fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Restharrow (Ononis hircena Jacq.): flowering stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after F.A. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Three British wild flowers, including kidney vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria) and milk vetch (Astragalus hypoglottis). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
  • A plant (Sophora tinctoria) related to the pagoda tree: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Seven garden plants, including a glory pea and two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Butterfly tree or camel's foot (Bauhinia diphylla): flowering stem with floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.
  • A plant of the Leguminosae family: two flowering stems with separate flowers. Watercolour.
  • A plant (Vigna glabra) related to cowpea: flowering and fruiting stem with separate seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Flowering stems of the indigo plant (Indigofera tinctorum) and coffee plant (Coffea arabica). Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), Chinese citron or natsumikan (Citrus natsudaidai), jak fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), muhimbi tree (Cynometra cauliflora) and bilimbi tree (Averrhoa bilimbi), in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • Bean plant (Phaseolus sp.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after F.A. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Five Egyptian trees with fruit, including the tamarind, mulberry fig and baobab. Line engraving, c. 1676.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a coral tree: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Coronilla cretica L.: flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • A broom plant (Genista stylosa): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • Goat's thorn (Astragalus christianus): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Wattle (Acacia sp.) flowering stem with a blue locust and a faggot caterpillar emerging from its nest. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1779.
  • A plant (Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and pods and separate pod and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Orchid Tree or Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis Wallich.): flowering branch with separate fruit and sectioned ovary. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.