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Marsh mallow plant (Althaea officinalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1906.

A mallow plant (Abutilon sp.): flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Cotton plant (Gossypium species): flowering stem. Watercolour by J.E.F.

Screwpine plants (Pandanus species) of Madagascar, sheltering a tent. Wood engraving, c. 1867.

East Indian Screw Tree (Helictores isora L.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate dehisced fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.

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

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

Old trunk of a toddy palm tree (Caryota urens). Watercolour by H. Schlagintweit.

Bromelia karatas L.: flowering stem with roots and separate sections of fruit with seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

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.

Talipot palms (Corypha umbraculifera) growing beside and on other plants with two people in foreground. Aquatint by T. Medland, c. 1807, after J. Cordiner.

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

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.

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

Cotton plant (Gossypium species): flowering stem. Watercolour by J.E.F.

Talipot palms (Corypha umbraculifera) growing beside and on other plants with two people in foreground. Aquatint by T. Medland, c. 1807, after J. Cordiner.