Cinchona of St Lucia Size:XL: 100 x 75cm possibly a tufted capuchin Sapajus

possibly a tufted capuchin Sapajus apella

16th century

The church

Populus heterophylla

Inscribed in pencil lower left 'Born 1785 Elect Died 1856'

Cinchona of St Lucia Size:XL: 100 x 75cm possibly a tufted capuchin SapajusPlate 19 figure A from the paper 'An account of a new species of the Bark tree, found in the Island of St Lucia', by George Davidson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 452 456. Botanical studies of parts of a tree from the West Indies used as an anti malarial treatment. The main figure is a dried sprig from the tree with leaves and flowers, appearing with several figures not used in the published version of