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  • Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera): three flowers, one in bud. Watercolour.
  • Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): tear-drop shaped fruit. Watercolour.
  • Liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza echinata): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.
  • Wax gourd (Benincasa hispida): one box shaped fruit. Watercolour.
  • A fig plant (Ficus carica): fruits and leaves. Watercolour.
  • Garlic (Allium sativum): bulb, leaves and separate flower. Watercolour.
  • Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): rounded fruit. Watercolour.
  • Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Double claw (Martynia annua L.): entire flowering plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Azarole or virginian hawthorn (Crataegus azarolus L.): flowering stems and fruit. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • Water parsnip (Sium sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, root, flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Two aubergine fruits (Solanum melongena) and an umbelliferous plant stem. Watercolour.
  • Fig (Ficus species): branch with sections of fruit. Colour aquatint by G. Pera, 1827, after I. Bozzolini, 1826.
  • Almond plant (Prunus dulcis) and other fruiting stems collected in Persia. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1704.
  • Medlar (Mespilus germanica): fruiting stem, leaf and fruit segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Pear (Pyrus species): fruiting branch with halved fruit. Colour aquatint by F. Corsi, 1829, after D. del Pino, 1825.
  • Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.
  • Sea samphire (Crithmum maritimum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Female liane of Chilli (Lardizabala biternata Ruíz & Pavón): fruiting stem with tendrils and floral segments. Engraving by Heath, c.1798, after Prevost.
  • Madar plant (Calotropis gigantea (L.) R.Br.): flowering and fruiting stem. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1705.
  • Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Grape vine (Vitis vinifera L.) with black grapes. Coloured lithograph after J. Polydore.
  • Liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.
  • Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum): spathe and spadix with hairs and flowers, fruiting stem, leaf and tuber. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Butcher's broom (Rucus aculeatus L.): entire flowering plant with separate berry and immature fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A species of Boerhavia: entire flowering plant with separate fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • 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.
  • A carrot (Daucus carota): root with leaves. Watercolour.
  • Brookweed (Samolus valerandi L.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A carrot (Daucus carota): root with leaves. Watercolour.