Malabar catmint or Malabar anisomeles, Animoseles malabarica. Native of Malabar and Coromandel, India, traditional Ayurvedic medicine, specimen sent by William Kent of Clapton. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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