Credit: ©The Royal Society 2018
    Image number: RS.13528

    ‘Pedicularis’

    Date
    1834
    Creator
    Jean-Baptiste Tassin (1800 - 1868, French) , Lithographer
    After
    Mrs P, Artist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 257mm
    width (print): 165mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
          > flower
    Description
    Botanical drawing of a Pedicularis or Lousewort.

    This drawing is an example of one of the plants that grows around the Neilgherries. It features a sub erect green stem, alternating oblong, crenate, leaves and small, pink, flowers that have a hooded upper lid and three lobbed lower lip.

    Labelled in the accompanying text ‘Didynamia Angiospermia… Pedicularis’

    Plate 11 (not numbered) from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).

    Inscribed below: ‘Pedicularis. Drawn from Nature by Mrs P. J.B. Tassin lith.’

    Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
    Associated place
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          > India
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          > India
             > Tamil Nadu
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