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Dye plants

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  • Bugloss or alkanet (Anchusa officinalis L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and seed and sections of flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Mangrove Tree (Rhizophora mucronata Lam.): branch with flowers and fruits and separate sectioned flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A marigold (Tagetes species): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
  • Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
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    A tropical plant (Memecylon edule): flowering branch. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1815.

    | Date: [1817] | Reference: 25523i
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    A marigold (Tagetes species): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

    Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. | Date: [1879-1887] | Reference: 24347i
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    Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): flower and young fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.

    Forbes, James, 1749-1819. | Date: [1st June 1813] | Reference: 20096i
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    Onosma arenaria: entire flowering plant and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.

    Schütz, Johann. | Date: [1802/12] | Reference: 18482i
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    Broom (Genista sibirica): flowering stem with pod and seed. Coloured engraving, c. 1792, after F. J. Schultz.

    Schultz, Franz Johann. | Date: [1792-1804] | Reference: 20787i
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