Caption:
Spotted-stalked peperomia, Peperomia maculosa. Discovered by botanist Charles Plumier in St. Domingo (Haiti), introduced by nurseryman George Loddiges. Piper maculosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.