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  • A plant, possibly of the Malvaceae family: flowering stem with blue flowers. Watercolour.
  • Althaea officinalis L. Malvaceae. Marsh Mallow. Herbaceous perennial. Althaea comes from the Greek word for healing
  • Althaea officinalis L. Malvaceae. Marsh Mallow. Herbaceous perennial. Althaea comes from the Greek word for healing
  • A plant (Hibiscus aculeatus Roxb.) related to China rose: branch with flowers and separate flower, fruits and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Mallow (Malva species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A plant of the Malavaceae family, possibly a hollyhock (Alcea rosea): fruiting stem with palmate leaves. Watercolour.
  • A mallow plant (Hibiscus species): fruiting stem in two sections. Watercolour.
  • Cotton plant (Gossypium species): flowering stem. Watercolour by J.E.F.
  • A mallow plant (Abutilon incanum): flowering and fruiting stems. Chromolithograph by Leighton Brothers, c. 1887, after I. Sinclair.
  • A large, exotic, tropical plant (Aguiaria excelsa): flowering stem and leaves. Watercolour.
  • A mallow plant (Abutilon sp.): flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A flowering marsh mallow plant (Althaea rosa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
  • An hibiscus flower (Hibiscus arnottianus): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, by Leighton Brothers after I. Sinclair.
  • Rose-of-Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Althaea flowers (4 varieties). Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • A flowering mallow plant (Malva purpurea). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
  • Common mallow (Malva sylvestris): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • A coal tit on the flowering branch of an Hibiscus plant. Watercolour.
  • Sida (Sida umbellata L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Lavatera triloba: flowering stem with separate sections of flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Tree mallow (Lavatera arborea L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Cotton tree (Gossypium herbaceum): flower, fruits and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • A durian (Durio zibethinus): an entire and sectioned fruit. Photograph.
  • Mallow (Malva peruviana): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
  • A mallow plant (Malva species): flowering stem. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • A bunch of flowering mallows and pansies. Coloured lithograph by E. Champin, c. 1850, after herself.
  • Ten flowering plants, including two orchids and an Hibiscus species. Coloured transfer lithograph, c. 1833.
  • Three flowers: a garden verbena (Verbena teucrioides), a mallow (Malva coccineum) and a salvia (Salvia patens). Coloured aquatint by A. Adlard, c. 1838.
  • Durian (Durio zibethinus L.): flowering and fruiting branch, section of fruit and numbered sections of flower and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.