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  • Curled mallow (Malva verticillata L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Four British wild flowers, all types of mallow (Malva, Lavatera and Althaea species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Four British garden plants, including daffodil and rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Tree cotton (Gossypium arboreum): flowering and fruiting stem with caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after M. Merian.
  • Althaea flowers (4 varieties). Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • A durian (Durio zibethinus): an entire and sectioned fruit. Photograph.
  • A plant of the Malavaceae family, possibly a hollyhock (Alcea rosea): fruiting stem with palmate leaves. Watercolour.
  • China rose or Shoe flower (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower, dissected fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Durian (Durio zibethinus L.): flowering and fruiting branch, section of fruit and numbered sections of flower and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.) with swollen trunk. Lithograph after R. McCormick, c. 1884.
  • Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • Mallow (Malva peruviana): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
  • A fruiting Abutilon species, a fruiting pepper plant (Capsicum sp.) and a flowering Sisyrinchium orientale. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.
  • Egyptian mallow (Malva aegyptiaca): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • A large, exotic, tropical plant (Aguiaria excelsa): flowering stem and leaves. Watercolour.