Legume Collection

Acacia nilotica, prickly acacia tree
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Indigofera tinctora, indigo
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Arachide hypogee, peanut
Plate 267 from Flore pittoresque et medicale (1827) Vol. 4 by Michel Etienne Descourtilz (1775-1835)

Trifolium pratensis, clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Manchineel or beach apple tree, Hippomane mancinella. Mancinella venenata, Mancinella velenosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze

Yellow pea, Lathyrus aphaca. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi di P.A

Stonecrop, Sedum telephium, and lupin, Lupinus albus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Alfalfa, Medicago ruthenica (Trigonella ruthenica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Three-flowered rafnia, Rafnia triflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Medicago sativa, alfalfa
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Acacia dealbata, mimosa or silver wattle
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod
Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod collected in Queensland, Australia in 1909 Date: 1909

Wild Sports of South Africa, William Harris
Title page to William Harriss collection of drawings from 1839. Date: 1839

Mucuna with insects in different life stages
Hand-coloured engraving based on Maria Sibylla Merian watercolour. From Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, 1726 edition. Date: 1726

Trifolium montanum, mountain clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lens esculenta, lentil
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Physostigma venenosum, calabar bean
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

The Furze Platt Hand Axe
The Furze Platt hand axe from the Acheulian culture (Lower Palaeolithic) about 400, 000 years ago. Found in Britain in 1919 the hand axe weighs 2.8 kilos and is 30.6 cm long

Pericopsis mooniana, or Nandu Wood
Pericopsis mooniana (Nandu Wood, Nedun Tree), also known as Dalbergia lanceolaria, Dalbergia mooniana, Derris ponapensis, Ormosia villamilii, and Pericopsis ponapensis

Pithecellobium circinale
Watercolour by Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822) Date: 1822

Mimosa leucacantha
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Senna italica, Italian senna
Illustration of Italian senna from the John Fleming Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cassia fistula, canafitula
The purging cassia or pudding pipe tree, is native to warmer regions of the world. The drug senna is prepared from its pods. The matrix in which its seeds are embedded also has laxative properties

Mucuna gigantea, sea bean

Trifolium sp. & Meliotus sp. clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Nelumbo nucifera, sacred lotus
Plate 45 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Vandasia retusa
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Lotus corniculatus, birds foot trefoil
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dolichos soja, soybean
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Glycyrrhiza echinata, liquorice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Trifolium sp. clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lotus nelumbo, lotus
Plate 47 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Onobrychis sativa, sainfoin seed
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Caesalpinia sp

Sesbania coccinea
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Aeschinomene speciosa

Haematoxylum campechianum, bloodwood tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Vigna adenantha, wild pea
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Phaseolus amoenus

Canavalia rosea, beach bean
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Glycine rosea

Wisteria sp

Ceratonia siliqua, carob

Dalbergia latifolia, Indian rosewood

Acacia verek, acacia
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Acacia-like pod
Part of Acacia-like pod, 14 cm long, from the Eocene of the Paris Basin

Plate 240 from Reichenbachs Synopsis Avium

Bauhinia divaricata L. bulls hoof
Sketch 15 (66 Drawings Volume). 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

Butea frondosa, flame of the forest
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London. Butea frondosa, flame of the forest

Cytisus scoparius L. Scotch broom
Sketch 30 (66 Drawings Volume). 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

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