Velvet bean, Mucuna pruriens (Cowhage, Dolichos pruriens). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.

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