NHD52/23

Illustration of an unidentified fruit tree

Original inscriptions: 来郎 (front lower left, in ink)

Flowering branch of an unidentified fruiting plant. Highly corrugate brown branch, showing numerous small, globular protuberances; two twigs stemming from the main branch. At the apex of each twig, a crown of large, clustered, elliptic and smooth dark green leaves with light green underside. Several white coloured campanulate flowers partially visible through the leaves, with three closed flower buds at the top end of the right twig. Flower petals are obovate in shape, with pink marks on the interior surface; one fuchsia style emerges from the centre of the flowers; and stamens with pink filaments and yellow anthers are visible, protruding and extending beyond the petals. Lower left: dissected view of five stamens, style (all in pink), light green pedicel, and flower corolla. The corolla is composed of five petals, depicted here with a clearer illustration of the petals pink dotted surface on white background. Lower right: dissected illustration of a fruit, horizontally cut. The upper half of the fruit is depicted still attached to the pedicel. The pedicel is brown to green coloured, with a three-lobed structure. The fruit outer colour is orange-light brownish, with interior white fleshy part; the fruit is globular with pointed apex in shape. The seed is depicted further on the right, it is dark brown, globular with a stellate internal structure.

Further inscriptions: Unintelligible roman letter script on front lower right, in pencil.