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RefNoCLP/10ii/14/2
AltRefNoCLP/10ii/14 p17
LevelItem
TitlePlate, oxyoides malabarica sensitiva, oxyoids javanica sensitiva, and fruit of the musa by unknown artist
Date[1730]
DescriptionEngraved figures from Table II. Figure 1 shows the oxyoides javanica sensitiva; figures 2 and 3 show the oxyoides malabarica sensitiva, including details of its petals and seeds; and figure 4 shows various views of the fruit of the musa.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Memoirs communicated by Mons. Garcin to Mons. St. Hyacinthe, F. R. S. containing a description of a new family of plants called oxyoïdes; some remarks on the family of plants called musa; and a description of the Hirudinella marina, or sea leach. Translated from the French, by Mr. John Martyn, F. R. S.'.

Read to the Royal Society on 14 May 1730.
Extent1p
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionEngraved drawings on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1729.0053
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 36 (1729), p 377
RelatedRecordRBO/15/26
CLP/10ii/13
CLP/10ii/12
CLP/10ii/14
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4513Garcin; Laurent (1683 - 1751)1683 - 1751
NA7004Hyacinthe; Paul de Saint (1684 - 1746)1684 - 1746
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