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(a) (b)(c)Fig. 1.54. Duranta erecta: (a) fol. 94r; (b) fruit cluster ofD. erecta(Source: Hari Krishnan,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duranta_erecta_fruits.jpg, used under CC-BY-
SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en); (c) herbarium sheet
ofD. erecta(F1721033) (Source: Neotropical Herbarium Specimen Scans, The Field
Museum, Chicago).
thus the artist was likely unaware of the color of the mature fruit on a
living branch.
HH. Violaceae
- Fol. 9v.Viola bicolor(V. rafinesquei) (Fig. 1.55).This phytomorph
(Fig. 1.55a) clearly shows linear terminal stipular lobes, as in the North
American nativeV. bicolorPursh (V. rafinesqueiGreene) (Fig. 1.55b),
not spatulate as in the EurasianV. tricolorL. Also, this phytomorph
matches the blue flowers ofV. bicolor, not the tricolored ones ofV. tri-
color;V. bicolorflowers are uniformly cream to blue, while those of
V. tricolorusually have two purple upper petals and three cream to yel-
low lower petals.Viola bicoloris native from New Jersey to Texas, west