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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-32
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Galega, Brya, Amerimnon, Stizolobium, and Lagetto]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin
Creator 2:
F. Garden
Creator 2 role:
sc.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
1755
Image function:
plate 31; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
21.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Inscription:
l.c.: 2. Brya. Aspalathus Ebenus. Linnai.
Description:
Branches of two plants with details of flowers, leaves, and seeds. Figure 1 is identified as Galega. Figure 2 is identified as Brya. Figure 3 is identified as Amerimnon. Figure 4 is identified as Stizolobium. Figure 5 is identified as Lagetto or lace-bark tree. Items are lettered and numbered for identification in text.
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:
Image title taken from pages 289, 288, 290, 371, and inscription. Galega or goat's rue may have been introduced to Jamaica. Brya is Brya ebenus, a leguminous tree or shrub that is the source of a very hard wood. Amerimnon is a genus now known as Dalbergia; this plant may be Dalbergia brownei or Brown's Indian rosewood, a tree found in Central America and the West Indies. Stizolobium is probably Dolichos pruriens or Mucuna pruriens, commonly known as velvet bean, cowhage or cow-itch, native to the West Indies and tropical America. The lace-bark tree is under threat in Jamaica where it was once most commonly found.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
References:
http://www.itis.gov… http://bio.fiu.edu/… http://plants.usda.… http://www.kew.org/… (Mar. 2008)
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:
Natural history--Jamaica
Subject headings:
Botany--Jamaica

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