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  • Flowering stems of the indigo plant (Indigofera tinctorum) and coffee plant (Coffea arabica). Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Source of Lopez Root (Toddalia asiatica Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis): flowering plant with roots. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Bugloss or alkanet (Anchusa officinalis L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Kamala (a species of Mallotus): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Common elder (Sambucus nigra): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and seed and sections of flowers and 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.
  • Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): tree bearing flowers and fruit. Coloured lithograph, 1812, after J. Forbes, 1780.
  • Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
  • Mattipaul (Ailanthus malabarica DC.): branch with flowers and fruits, separate flowers and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Tumeric (Curcuma longa L.): rhizome with flowering stem and separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Bastard Teak or Flame of the Forest (Butea monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze): leaf cluster, inflorescence and dissected flower. Coloured line engraving.
  • Six British wild flowers, four types of bedstraw (Galium species), squinancywort (Asperula cynanchica) and levant (Rubia peregrina). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
  • Three British wild flowers, including hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale) and woad (Isatis tinctoria). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Indian Snakeroot or Java Devilpepper (Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Kurz): flowering and fruiting branches, root, inflorescence and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.
  • Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • Dyer's rocket plant (Reseda luteola) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Bastard alkanet plant (Lithospermum arvense) with an associated beetle, its larva and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Carthamus tinctorius (Safflower)
  • Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae. Safe Flower, False Saffron - Distribution: W. Asia. Dioscorides (in Beck, 2003) notes the seeds as a purgative, but also advises it made up with 30 figs, which must have helped. Gerard (1640) calls it Atractylis flore luteo the yellow distaffe thistle. and follows Dioscorides in its uses, but does get the reader confused with Cnicus benedictus, calling both plants 'wild bastard saffron'. Culpeper makes no mention of it in his early works, but later (1826) have the following: ‘Wild Saffon, or Saf-flower ... accounted a pretty strong cathartic [causing diarrhoea and vomiting], evacuating tough viscid phlegm, both upwards and downwards, and by that means is said to clear the lungs, and help the phthisic [now equated with tuberculosis]. It is likewise serviceable against the jaundice
  • Cotton tree (Gossypium herbaceum): flower, fruits and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Cynara scolymus (Globe artichoke)
  • Galium aparine (Cleavers or Goosegrass)
  • Calluna vulgaris; Erica vulgaris (Heather)