Giant bamboo plants, one split to show the interior.

  • Scowen, Charles
Date:
[1900]
Reference:
551109i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Also known as

Dendrocalamus Giganteus. Giant bamboos in the Peradeniya Gardens showing the young shoots and a section of one.

Publication/Creation

Colombo : Apothecaries Co. Ltd, [1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Bears number pencilled on verso: 173

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 551109i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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