Date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, and banana trees, Musa × paradisiaca. Jamaica plantain, Musa paradisiaca, palm tree and banana plantain, Musa sapientum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellie's English translation of George Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular, and Henry Chambers' History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, Thomas Kelly, London, 1828. Artist unknown. William Smellie (1740-1795) was a prolific Scottish author, naturalist and translator. His two-volume translation of Buffon first appeared in 1781.

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