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Anatomy and botany; top left, dissected head and chest showing arteries; top right, larynx; bottom left, buckthorn plant; centre, surgical instruments; bottom right, electric ray fish. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Four Egyptian plants in a landscape, including purging cassia, French jujube or Chinese date, and a taro species. Line engraving, c. 1676.

Colubrina cubensis: flowering stem with separate flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

A plant (Sondaria cranganoorensis Denn.) Coloured line engraving.

Scutia myrtina Kurz.: branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower, fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.

Christ's thorn plant (Ziziphus spina-christi): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1817.

Scutia myrtina Kurz.: branch with flowers and fruit and separate leaf, flowers, fruit, seeds and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.

French jujube (Zizyphus jujuba Gaertn.): Branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and separate fruit and flowers. Coloured line engraving.

West Indian Snake Bark (Colubrina ferruginea Brongn.): leafy stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

El Rhamnus Humboldtianus : apuntes para su historia natural médica. Tésis para el examén general de Medicina, Cirugia y Obstetricia / presentada por Manuel Godoy Álvarez.

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El Rhamnus Humboldtianus : apuntes para su historia natural médica. Tésis para el examén general de Medicina, Cirugia y Obstetricia / presentada por Manuel Godoy Álvarez.

Colubrina cubensis: flowering stem with separate flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Christ's thorn plant (Ziziphus spina-christi): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1817.

Scutia myrtina Kurz.: branch with flowers and fruit and separate leaf, flowers, fruit, seeds and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.

A plant (Sondaria cranganoorensis Denn.) Coloured line engraving.