M0006975: Illustration of a Myroxylon Peruiferum leaf

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sweet smelling balsam tree.

Photograph of a lithograph of an illustration of a leaf from Myroxylon Peruiferum, a sweet smelling balsam tree native to tropical forests of North and South America. This reproduction was made from Woodville, William: Medical botany. Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica...; London: J. Bohn, 1832.

4 July 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.