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Orchid Tree or Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis Wallich.): flowering branch with separate fruit and sectioned ovary. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16301i
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A galled tree (Mimosa cinerea), a Jamaica pepper tree (Pimenta dioica) and a Turkey rhubarb plant (Rheum palmatum). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
Date: [1827]Reference: 27952i
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A plant (Odontadenia speciosa): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
Briscoe, H.Date: 1870Reference: 26139i
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A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
Date: [1827]Reference: 27951i
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A palm tree (Iriartella setigera (Mart.) H. Wendl.) in fruit in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
Goodall, Edward A.Date: [1846]Reference: 21774i
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A palm tree (Mauritiella armata (Mart.) Burret) in Guyana with a man and smaller palm in the distance. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
Goodall, Edward A.Date: Oct.r 19th 1846Reference: 21762i
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A plant (Vigna catjang) related to cowpea: flowering and fruiting stem with separate pod and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17543i
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Palm tree (Inaja palm) with man standing beneath. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
Date: [1867-1875]Reference: 20947i
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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.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16341i
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East Indian Screw Tree (Helictores isora L.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate dehisced fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16202i
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East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16187i
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A grape vine, cedar of lebanon and two palm trees by a lake with eleven other plants from the bible forming a border. Lithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27985i
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Fruiting branch of a sapodillo tree (Manilkara zapota) and four mites. Coloured etching, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 30 January 1808Reference: 25370i
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African people brewing pombe beside a pile of sorghum grain. Wood engraving by J. B. Zwecker.
Reference: 25430i
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Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 25 September 1799Reference: 25491i
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A tropical plant (Acokanthera spectabilis): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1872, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1872]Reference: 25906i
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Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Engraving with etching, c. 1828, after J. Hart.
Hart, J. T., active 1833-1840.Date: 1 October 1828Reference: 25328i
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Workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.
Rugendas, Johann Moritz, 1802-1858.Date: 1850Reference: 25222i
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Seaside grape (Coccoloba uvifera): fruiting stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 1 July 1801Reference: 25389i
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Madar plant (Calotropis gigantea (L.) R.Br.): flowering and fruiting stem. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1705.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20307i
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Arabian coffee tree (Coffea arabica): flowering stem, fruit and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1853]Reference: 23987i
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A dayflower (Commelina species): flowering stem with separate flower. Watercolour.
Reference: 23408i
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Flowers, stem and leaf of a tropical plant (Dillenia pentagyna) and five skin beetles (Dermestes species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1803, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 30 April 1803Reference: 25503i
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Pods and seeds of a Sterculia plant. Line engraving by J. Heath, c. 1804.
Date: 1 October 1804Reference: 20925i
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Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus): flowering stem with separate flowers. Watercolour.
Reference: 22908i