First Fleet artwork collection

Flowering tree or shrub, with details of a flowering branch and seed. The bottom half of the sheet is occupied by a drawing of the whole tree, with the foliage represented by individual pointed leaves, brown oval fruits and pale round flowers. The top half of the sheet contains a detail of a branch, which is woody and slender, with paired pale-green oblanceolate leaves, overlaid with three longitudinal veins and connecting smaller veins in dark grey. There are five round clusters of white flowers up the stem, and one grey-brown oval fruit overlaid with black dots. To the left there is a detail of a single flower, and to the right a detail of the fruit or seed case split open to show the interior, with two views of a dark-brown, wing-shaped seed below it. The drawing is annotated in brown ink.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "434", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the collection.
• The drawing is annotated in brown ink at bottom "Grows to the height of six or seven feet -", and at centre right alongside a detail "seed".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
• By permission of the trustees of the Natural History Museum (London)
• Two sets of transparencies held in the Natural History Museum (London) Zoology Library and Picture Library: Picture Library reference number 12434
• James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
• Data sheet available