Caption:
Chinese balsam, Impatiens chinensis. Bristle-leaved balsamina, Balsamina setacea. Sent from the Kerrera mountains north of Sylhet (Bangladesh), by English scholar and East India Company writer, Henry Thomas Colebrooke. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.