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  • A plant (Galega flavescens): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Watercolour.
  • A plant (Trigonella species): flowering and fruiting stems with seed. Watercolour.
  • A fruiting plant, possibly in the Capparidaceae family. Watercolour.
  • Two plants, one possibly in the Leguminosae family. Watercolour.
  • A leguminous plant: flowering and fruiting stem with long pods. Watercolour.
  • A fruiting tree branch and enlarged single pod. Watercolour.
  • A fruiting tree branch with a small section enlarged and a fruit with some seeds extracted. Watercolour.
  • A plant of the Leguminosae family, possibly a Lespedeza species: flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.
  • A plant of the Leguminosae family: flowering stem with separate flower bud and fruit. Watercolour.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • A woody liane of the Asclepiadaceae family, with two pods. Watercolour.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • Four fruiting and flowering plants all with different types of pod. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Vetchling (Lathyrus species): flowering and fruiting stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • A plant, possibly balsam apple (Momordica balsamina): fruiting stem. Watercolour by Depaoli.
  • Bean plant (Phaseolus species): flowering and fruiting stem with three beans. Coloured pen and ink drawing by F. V. Ghini, 17--.
  • Two plants, a leguminous species with pods (left) and a flowering iris (right) Watercolour.
  • A bean plant, possibly a Phaseolus species: flowering and fruiting stems. Watercolour.
  • Glory pea (Clianthus puniceus): flowering stem, pod and seed. Coloured etching by S. Watts, c. 1835, after Miss Drake.
  • White lupin (Lupinus albus): entire flowering plant with pod. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza echinata): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.
  • Egyptian gum arabic (Acacia nilotica): flowering stem with separate seed pod. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.
  • Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Dhak or palas tree (Butea monosperma): flowering branch with fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Purging cassia or Indian laburnum (Cassia fistula): flowers, leaf, pod and seeds. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.
  • False acacia or black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.): branch with large pod. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • Five figures showing fruit, pericarps and seeds of a gooseberry, fir cone and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • A cultivar of garden pea (Pisum sativum) and of variegated kale (Brassica oleracea acephala). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.