COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-14
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Psychotrophum, and Metopium]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin.
Creator 2:
B. Cole
Creator 2 dates:
fl. 1755
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
[1756]
Image function:
plate 13; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
20.9 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Figures 1 and 2 depict a kind of psychotrophum with details of flower and seeds. Figure 3 depicts a branch of the Metopium or the hog gum tree.
Source creator:
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790
Source Title:
The civil and natural history of Jamaica. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn.
Source date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
notes:
Psychotrophum P. Browne is now synonymous with Psychotria L. and is a shrub perhaps related to wild coffee. Metopium may be Metopium toxiferum (L.) Krug & Urb. or poisonwood tree, a tree that produces a sap that causes rashes. Text states that it has many medicinal purposes, but it is now considered not to be beneficial. Image title taken from pages 160 and 177.In the plates the letter (a) indicates the empalement or cup; (b) the flower; (c) the filaments with their antherae; (d) the style and stigma; and (e), (f), and (g) the germen, fruit and seeds.Browne was an Irish medical doctor who settled in Jamaica in 1746. There he collected 1200 species of plants, 400 more than Sloane. He retired to Ireland in 1771.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1963; former collections of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwiliam; Charles William de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam; Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Metopium
Subject headings:
Natural history--Jamaica
Subject headings:
Psychotria
Subject headings:
Botany--Jamaica
[Psychotrophum, and Metopium]
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