'Seeds', list of seeds collected from Delagoa Bay and St Mary's, Madagascar, by John Forbes

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Title: 'Seeds', list of seeds collected from Delagoa Bay and St Mary's, Madagascar, by John Forbes

Scope & content: List of seeds collected from Delagoa Bay [Maputo Bay, Mozambique] and St Mary's Madagascar [Nosy Boraha, Madagascar], numbered (specimens 1-61), some unnamed, with a brief description. Includes a species of Bignoniae ('tree 30 feet high, flowers terminal, large purple, leaves pinnate'), Sophora tomentosa ('10 feet high, rich soil'), Ixora rosea or madagascarensis [Ixora cuneifolia] ('splendid shrub, 15 feet high, flower blush, very fragrant, rich loam'), Sagus raffia [Raphia vinifera] ('one third of a raceme') and Corypha africana [Hyphaene coriacea] ('sandy soil, Mozambique) [here the list includes 56 more seeds]

Pages now loose, but first page includes a piece of string threaded through holes which would have tied the pages together

Undated [Sep 1822-Jan 1823; Forbes visited Mozambique and Madagascar between September 1822 and January 1823]