Commelinid Collection (page 5)

Lonchura striata, white-rumped munia
Plate 31, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Kempferi ovatifolia, colouring turmeric
Plate 4 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Calamus viminalis, rattan fruit
Plate 5 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Curcuma augustifolia, malabar arrowroot
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Areca catechu, betel nut
Plate 46 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held iat the Natural History Museum, London

Cocos nucifera, coconut tree
Plate 69 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Elaphe guttata, corn snake
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Corn Snake

Palm Cockatoo

Juvenile Sedge Warbler
Illustration of a Juvenile Sedge Warbler by Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940)

Tropical Fruits
Plate 51 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Fruits de Serre Temperee et Serre Chaude

Gladiolus sp. corn flag
Plate 159 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Acrocomia spinosa, macca fat palm
Illustration depicting the leaf of a macca fat palm from the verso on page 53, volume 7 of the Hans Sloane collection. Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane
Plate 635 from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Urania speciosa, travellers tree
Plate 578 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Euphorbia mammillaris, corn cob euphorbia
Illustration from Prludia Botanica (1703) by Caspar Commelin, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Chrysanthemum segetum, corn marigold
Corn marigold in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, July 2004

Phoenix dactylifera, palm date
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

All about Betel chewing
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge 1858-1949. 180 x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Lonchura punctulata, scaly-breasted munia
Plate 32, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Acrocephalus caffer, long-billed reed warbler
Ff. 55. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Oriolus musa and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Arera catechu, figure from Descriptiones Fruticum et Arborum
This volume, by Georg Joseph Camel, was held in the library of Sir Hans Sloane

Sabal comanonis, fossil plant. This specimen is from Axe-en-Provence, France, and is now held at the Natural History Museum, London

Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, coconut palm weevil illustration
An illustration of a coconut palm weevil, original painting by Amadeo J. E. Terzi (1872-1956)

Phoenix canariensis, Canary Islands date palm
Sketch 219 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ananas sativas
From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tillandsia stricta, air plant
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Aechmea nudicaulis, bromeliad
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771.. Illustration annotated Bromelia bracteata

Tillandsia geminiflora
Finished watercolour (B32) by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771.. Illustration annotated Tillandsia argentea

Aechmea sphaerocephala
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Bromelia Pseudo Ananas

Haemodorum coccineum, scarlet bloodroot
Finished watercolour by John Frederick Miller from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Zea mays, corn

Zea mays L. corn
From Blancos Flora de Filipinas. A botanical illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Gymnosperm, palm & angiosperm
Composite photomicrograph comparing structures visible through a hand-held lens in transverse section of fossil tree trunks: gymnosperm (left), palm (centre) and angiosperm (right)

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