Shaving brush tree, Pseudobombax grandiflorum (or Bombax album). Native to Brazil, introduced by George Loddiges, and sent by John Shepherd of the Liverpool Botanic Garden. White-flowered carolinea, Carolinea alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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