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Bugloss or alkanet (Anchusa officinalis L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and seed and sections of flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.

Mangrove Tree (Rhizophora mucronata Lam.): branch with flowers and fruits and separate sectioned flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

A marigold (Tagetes species): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.

A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.

Common sawwort (Serratula tinctoria): two flowering stems and two separate leaves of different forms. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.

Dyer's rocket plant (Reseda luteola) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Tumeric (Curcuma longa L.): rhizome with flowering stem and separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis): flowering plant with roots. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.

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

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

Onosma arenaria: entire flowering plant and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.

Broom (Genista sibirica): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.

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

A marigold (Tagetes species): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

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

Onosma arenaria: entire flowering plant and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.

Broom (Genista sibirica): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.