Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1620723 The plate is inscribed lower

The plate is inscribed lower right: 'And

With ruins of buildings in the background

(The second order of theperriwig is the 'aldermanic')

Dimion O'Neill

and the long-legged Casowary from New South Wales'

Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1620723 The plate is inscribed lowerBotanical study of a specimen of physalis, inscribed: 'Alkekengi Barbadense, patulum, parvo flore, fructu amplo, mucrone productioni Act. Phil n. 399.' A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants sent from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society 1726', by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 35 (1729), p. 293. Not signed. Original: watercolour on paper. ca. 1730