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Bromelia karatas L.: flowering stem with roots and separate sections of fruit with seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Two plants (Pisonia sylvestris and Pisonia alba ): flowering and leafy shoots with separate numbered flower and fruit sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): tear-drop shaped fruit. Watercolour.

Wax gourd (Benincasa hispida): one box shaped fruit. Watercolour.

Bromelia karatas L.: longitudinal section of flowering stem with roots. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Amaranthus spinosus L.: flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

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.

Two water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis) and a root of Shan kui. Watercolour.

Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): rounded fruit. Watercolour.

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Wax gourd (Benincasa hispida): one box shaped fruit. Watercolour.

Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): tear-drop shaped fruit. Watercolour.

Amaranthus spinosus L.: flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

Bromelia karatas L.: longitudinal section of flowering stem with roots. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Bromelia karatas L.: flowering stem with roots and separate sections of fruit with seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.