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Passion flower (Passiflora alata): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).

Reference

22160i

Dolichos pubescens: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.

Date

[1772]

Reference

17749i

Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Date

[1885]

Reference

16409i

Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

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22094i

A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

Date

[1854-63]

Reference

26335i

Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.

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22152i

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

Date

[1671]

Reference

24654i

Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

Date

1 August 1788

Reference

20137i

A plant (Achimenes longiflora): flowering stems. Coloured etching by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after Miss Drake.

Date

[1812-48]

Reference

26408i

A plant (Corypha minor Jacq.) related to talipot palm: flowering stem with separate seedling, fruit and flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

17968i

A cycad plant (Zamia species) with three large fruit. Photograph.

Reference

28162i

A tropical orchid (Coelia baueriana): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured engraving by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after S. Drake.

Date

1 June 1842

Reference

25888i

Workers preparing cakes from manioc root in the tropics, with decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.

Date

[1777-78]

Reference

26349i

Ambroma augusta (L.) L.f.: flowering stem with separate fruit, sections of flower and fruit and uncoloured leaf. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

17953i

Papaya, pawpaw or melon tree (Carica papaya L.): flowering and fruiting tree with flowers and fruit lying on the ground beneath. Etching by G. D. Ehret, 1742, after himself.

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18634i

Screwpines (Pandanus species) covered with climbing plants, surrounded by lush tropical vegetation. Wood engraving, c. 1867, after C. Whymper.

Date

[1867-1875]

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20942i

A tropical plant (Memecylon edule): flowering branch. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1815.

Date

[1817]

Reference

25523i

Custard apple or Sweetsop (Annona squamosa L.): fruiting branch with sections of fruit, flowers and seeds. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Date

[1885]

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16308i

A plant (Brucea species): flowering stem with floral segments. Coloured etching by J.F. Miller, c.1796, after himself.

Date

[1796]

Reference

20477i

Rosewood tree (a species of Dalbergia): branch with flowers and pods and separate sections of flowers, pod and seeds. Coloured line engraving.

Date

[1686]

Reference

16117i

Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): whole and sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

18107i

Cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): fruiting and flowering branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

Date

19 March 1796

Reference

25378i

Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): flower and young fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.

Date

[1st June 1813]

Reference

20096i

A plant (Justicia bicalyculata Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and opened fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

Date

[1686]

Reference

16181i

A tropical orchid (Trichopilia marginata): flowering plant. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1851, after himself.

Date

[1850-51]

Reference

26347i