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Concept

Rhamnaceae

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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.
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Catalogue

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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.

    Godoy Álvarez, Manuel. | Date: 1890
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    Colubrina cubensis: flowering stem with separate flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 18091i
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    Christ's thorn plant (Ziziphus spina-christi): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1817.

    | Date: 1 March 1817 | Reference: 25836i
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    Scutia myrtina Kurz.: branch with flowers and fruit and separate leaf, flowers, fruit, seeds and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.

    | Date: [1685] | Reference: 16043i
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    A plant (Sondaria cranganoorensis Denn.) Coloured line engraving.

    | Date: [1685] | Reference: 16076i
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