Cuprea bark plant (Remijia pedunculata): flowering and fruiting stem. Lithograph, c. 1883.

Date:
[1883]
Reference:
24339i
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Description

The bark of Remijia pedunculata (cuprea bark) is a source of the antimalarial quinine

Publication/Creation

[Berlin], [1883]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; image 27.1 x 16.9 cm

Lettering

Cinchona lancifolia. Lettering in pencil is inscribed on print: "familiar cùprea' bark"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 24339i

Notes

Print is one in a series of eight mounted plates of quinine-producing plants and plant anatomy

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