Sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Egyptian bean lily, Cyamus nelumbo). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.

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