NHD55/28

Illustration of an unidentified white flower plant

Original inscriptions: 白葉茶 (front lower right in ink); Pae-yiep-lan (reverse lower right in pencil)

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

Flowering branch of small, white flower plant, producing small round, berry fruits. Opposite leaves, clustered at the top of a woody, reddish-brown branch. Leaves are mostly elliptic, with tapered ends, entire margins and alternate golden veins, yellow-greenish pedicels. The top four leaves are pale cream colour with pale orange veins. At the top of the branch, three racemose inflorescences with small white flowers, on the right mostly still in buds. Yellow stamens clearly visible in stellate arrangements across the corolla; thin green sepals also visible between the petals. Lower left: dissected view of two fruit berries, elongated, green-yellowish with white flesh. Dissected view of the flower corolla, stamens, and pistil. Pencil underdrawing clearly visible. Lower right: Dissected view of the fruit, showing light green skin, white-yellowish flesh and two sets of egg-shape seeds repository lying in the middle of the fruit. Brown seeds are sketched on the right of the fruit.

Any further details: Pencil underdrawings visible. White paint partly oxidised.