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  • Four flowering plants, including cuckoo-pint, sweet flag and two pondweeds. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).
  • Arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica): inflorescence and leaf. Watercolour.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids, a gardenia and a clematis: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • A species of the genus Arum: fruiting spadix with separate leaves and single sectioned fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Five flowering plants, one possibly a voodoo lily (Sauromatum venosum). Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A species of the genus Arum: spadix, leaf and tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Flamingo flowers (Anthurium scherzerianum): flowers and leaves. Coloured lithograph, c. 1862, after W. Fitch.
  • Friar's cowl (Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Four plants, all with different forms of bracts, sheaths or spathes. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Four Egyptian plants in a landscape, including purging cassia, French jujube or Chinese date, and a taro species. Line engraving, c. 1676.
  • Yellow arum lily (Zantedeschia elliottiana): inflorescence and leaf. Watercolour.
  • A plant (Caladium bicolour (Aiton) Vent.): 3 large stalked leaves and numbered inflorescences - both sheathed and unsheathed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Seven flowering plants, one possibly a voodoo lily (Sauromatum venosum). Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Seven garden plants, including an iris: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Mouseplant (Arisarum proboscideum (L.) Savi): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Leaf and flowers of skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidum), a type of mollusc (Doris argo) and a dragon lizard (Draco volans). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1803, after J. Ihle.
  • Dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris Schott): leaf and base of stem with tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Four poisonous plants: fool's parsley (Aethusa cynapium), cuckoo pint (Arum maculatum), white bryony (Bryonia dioica) and greater celandine (Chelidonium majus). Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.
  • Three flowering plants, possibly including a lily and a species of Dracunculus. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Five flowering plants, two possibly Aquilegia species. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A tropical aroid (Philodendron simsii): spadix, spathe and leaf bases. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.
  • Arum plant (Arum palestinus?): inflorescence, spadix and leaf. Watercolour.
  • Four flowering plants, one possibly a Clematis species. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A wooded valley with a plant of the Araceae family in the foreground and verses below. Etching by Matthaeus Merian the elder, c. 1629.
  • A plant (Spathiphyllum minahassae T. & B. Tjariang Poetie): spadix and leaf with separate numbered sections of spadix, flower and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Cobra-lily (Arisaema fimbriatum): inflorescence and leaf. Watercolour.
  • Four flowering plants, possibly including species of Sisyrinchium and Dracunculus. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum): spathe and spadix with hairs and flowers, fruiting stem, leaf and tuber. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.