Rattlepod, Crotalaria pulchra. Native of Mysore, India, seeds sent by Scottish botanist Dr. Francis Buchanan to Calcutta Botanic Garden (Kolkata). Mysore crotalaria, Crotalaria pulcherrima. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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