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  • Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): mature fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.
  • Circassian Tree or Red Sandalwood Tree (Adenanthera pavonina L.): branch with flowers and pods, separate opened pod, seeds and flowers. Coloured line engraving.
  • Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) growing on a lakeside. Coloured etching by B. Pouncy, c. 1793, after W. Hodges.
  • Cittwodi, Hawar or Manchingi (Dolichandrone falcata Seem.): branch with flower and pods, and separate sectioned pods and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Kandel or Mangrove plant (Kandelia candel (L.) Druce): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Avicennia officinalis L.: branch with flowers, fruit and leaves and separate sections of fruits, flowers and kernels. Coloured line engraving.
  • View from inside an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.). Engraving by J. Greig, after J. Forbes, 1778.
  • Mango (Mangifera indica L.) flower and fruit with a purple-eyed butterfly (Papilio sp.). Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1768.
  • Fever bark (a species of Croton): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower, fruit and seeds and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Fever bark (Croton coccineum Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Pride-of-India, queen flower or pyinma (Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.): branch with leaves and flowers.
  • A plant (Zanthoxylum rhetsea) related to knobthorn: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Mangrove Tree (Rhizophora mucronata Lam.): branch with flowers and fruits and separate sectioned flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruit showing seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Rosewood tree (a species of Dalbergia): branch with flowers and pods and separate sections of flowers, pod and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Indian almond (Terminalia catappa L.): leaves, tree, fruit, flowers, seed and cross-sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A spreading banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.) growing on a palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer L.) and sheltering 2 people. Engraving by J. Greig, after J. Forbes, 1774.
  • Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): tree bearing flowers and fruit. Coloured lithograph, 1812, after J. Forbes, 1780.
  • Mattipaul (Ailanthus malabarica DC.): branch with flowers and fruits, separate flowers and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A man climbing a coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) which stands by a banana plant (Musa sp.), in a waterside setting in Bombay, India. Engraving by J. Shury after J. Forbes, 1768.
  • East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell, A curious herbal, conta
  • Sowing cinchona seeds in a nursery bed, Munsong plantation.
  • A Brazilian rubber tree (Hevea Brasiliensis), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • An Indian woman wearing an elaborate headscarf and pierced ear ornament hands a condom to a man in front of a door within a decorative leaf border; an advertisement for Nirodh condoms as a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A man with a speech bubble telling us to use condom sense and stop unprotected sex; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. 1997.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.