List of drawings of plants headed 'Drawings' by John Forbes

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Scope & content: List of drawings of four species, each 'about half its natural size', with locations: Gomphocarpus procera [unidentified], from Cape de Verd Islands [Cabo Verde], Tillandsia serrata [?Aechmea serrata] from 'Granite Rocks, entrance into Boto Fogo Bay [Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil], Rio Janeiro [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil], 'Heliconia humilis?' [Heliconia psittacorum] from 'marshy thick woods, rich soil' and 'Guzmannia?' [Guzmania] from 'Granite Rock, Boto Fogo', detailing the size of the drawings ('about half its natural size') and the details depicted ('a stamen and another after the pollen is discharged', 'a leaf of the calyx'). The drawings are not present

Undated [May-Jun 1822; Forbes visited Brazil between May and June 1822]