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Scilla campanulata : scille à fleurs en cloche / par P.J. Redouté.

An Agave plant. Watercolour.

Eight plants, including an orchid and two yuccas: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

Sansevieria hyacinthoides (L.) Druce: inflorescence with separate leaf with part of rootstock and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

The century plant (Agave americana): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.

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Eight plants, including an orchid and two yuccas: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

An Agave plant. Watercolour.

An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.

The century plant (Agave americana): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.

Scilla campanulata : scille à fleurs en cloche / par P.J. Redouté.