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Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): fruiting and flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

East Indian Screw Tree (Helictores isora L.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate dehisced fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.

A plant (Sterculia nobilis Smith.): flowering and fruiting branch with separate numbered flower sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), Chinese citron or natsumikan (Citrus natsudaidai), jak fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), muhimbi tree (Cynometra cauliflora) and bilimbi tree (Averrhoa bilimbi), in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.

Heritiera fomes: flowering stem with floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.

Ambroma augusta (L.) L.f.: flowering stem with separate fruit, sections of flower and fruit and uncoloured leaf. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

A fruiting cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Photograph.

Melochia pyramidata L.: flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

A species of the genus Byttneria: flowering stem with separate segments of flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Pods and seeds of a Sterculia plant. Line engraving by J. Heath, c. 1804.

Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.

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Ambroma augusta (L.) L.f.: flowering stem with separate fruit, sections of flower and fruit and uncoloured leaf. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Heritiera fomes: flowering stem with floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.

East Indian Screw Tree (Helictores isora L.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate dehisced fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.

Pods and seeds of a Sterculia plant. Line engraving by J. Heath, c. 1804.

Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.