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The image shows a branch of a coconut tree, with green fronds extending on both sides. Bottom of page: Forbes includes a Latin quotation from Pliny's Natural History--"In palmarum foliis primo scriptatum"--with the gloss, "The Leaves of Palm Trees were used to write on by the ancients."

The drawing shows a branch of a banyan tree with leaves and fruits, without surrounding illustration. There are several roots descending from the branch.

The image shows a detail of a tree, focusing on palm-like fronds. No Latin name is given (see possibly Pandanus odorifer).

The images are labeled "Buctory, or Man in Armor" and "Turk" in English, "savaarabaShatarposh" and "turk" in Hindustani, and "savaar bakhtar posh" and "turk savaar" in Persian. The images show two men on horseback, one with a horse draped in orange armor.

The drawing depicts a bunch of coconuts, without surroudning illustration. The Latin name is given as Cocos nucifera - Lin: (see Cocos nucifera).

The drawing is a detail of the fruit of the Betel-nut tree, with no surrounding illustration. There are two nuts at the bottom of the image, one labeled "The Nut in the Outer Coat," and the other labeled "The Nut divided."

Typeset by John Rose in 11-point Plantin on a CCRTronic phototypesetter, printed litho by Parchment (Oxford), Ltd., and bound by Paperback Binders (Oxford), Ltd. The text pages are printed on 140gsm Kaskad Pintail Cream and Kestrel Corn used for the endpapers. The cover is printed on 350gsm Kaskad Lapwing Brown from Robert Horne Paper Company, Ltd. Richard Shirley Smith's 'Cornucopias' [1985, Messer Pietro Mio, Bain no. 268] illustrates the paragraph describing Michael Mitchell's Libanus Press on page 27. Glued soft binding.