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Morinda scandens 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. ROX.
This plant was discovered by Roxburgh on his final journey home to Scotland while stopping at Ceylon in 1813. Roxburgh described the plant as a 'stout scandent shrub of several fathoms in extent, found common in the hills which form the east side of Point de Galle bay or Harbour'. Despite being numbered '2570' this particular species did not appear in Roxburgh's manuscript, and therefore did not receive a number. The number 2570 was actually attributed to Menispermum laurifolium in his manuscript.
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.1, p.548.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

Sri Lanka

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Flora
Flowers
Plants

Category

Glossary
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