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Uvaria heteroclita R.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX2524.
In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this plant as a large scandent shrub, native of the Garrow hills and other mountainous districts in the vicinity of Sylhet. He also notes that it blossoms about the beginning of the rains, and ripens the seed in October and November. Drawing inscribed No. 2518 by Roxburgh, later identified as No. 2524 in MS, by Sealy.
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.663.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Flora
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Category

Glossary
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