First Fleet artwork collection

Woody, upright branch from a fruiting tree or shrub against a plain background, with details of three seeds. The branch terminates in four elongated, obovate leaves with serrated margins. The upper sides of the leaves are yellow-green and the undersides are grey-green with yellow veins. The fruit borne on an off-shoot to the right is brown, egg-shaped and hairy, with five green-brown closed follicles and one open to show a pale brown interior. At lower left there is a detail of three wing-shaped seeds. The one on the left is dark brown and seen from the side, the central one is pale brown and the one on the right is dark brown. The drawing is annotated in brown and black ink in what appear to be three different hands.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "351", which refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
• The drawing is annotated in black ink at top left "No 1-", and at top right "January". It is annotated in a different hand above a detail of seeds at lower left "Natural size", at lower right "Natural size -", and at bottom left "The seed of the Honey tree of New South Wales -".
• The drawing is annotated in brown ink at bottom right "Native name Wattang-ree".
• 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 12416
• James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
• Data sheet available