Velvet bean or cowitch, Mucuna pruriens.

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Velvet bean or cowitch, Mucuna pruriens. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn by G. Reid and engraved on steel by Weddell from John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill's "Medical Botany: or Illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopœias," John Churchill, London, 1831.

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