NHD54/16

Illustration of an unidentified white flower plant

Original inscriptions: 仁面 Yun-mien (reverse lower right in pencil); 红米萳 (reverse lower right in pencil, faint and written beneath previous set of characters); reverse lower left: three unreadable characters in pencil

Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink)

Flowering branch of an unidentified fruit tree. One erect dark brown-greyish branch, with a light green, smooth twig at its apex, from which stem numerous, spirally arranged imparipinnate compound leaves. Leaves are lanceolate, bigger and dark green on the lower part of the twig, and smaller and light green on the upper part of twig. Beneath the leaves, along the brown part of the branch, three racemose inflorescences, showing small white flowers, dotted with numerous stamens, and green sepals. Behind the flowering branch, an horizontal, small and leafless twig bearing two green, round, fruit berries. Lower left: dissected view of the fruit, brown-orange with white flesh. Smaller fruit on its right. Underneath: dissected view of the flower, including five small, elongated and pointy yellow-greenish sepals; one yellow pedicel with round receptacle; five sinuous pistils followed by alternating stamens and petals.

Any further details: Page cut on the right side.