Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Cham. & Schlecht.

This herbarium specimen — a pressed and mounted branch of Cordia alliodora, the Ecuador laurel or salmwood — was collected in the Barahona province of Santo Domingo (present-day Dominican Republic) by collector Pedro Fuertes. The sheet displays the plant's characteristic slender, branching stems, opposite leaves, and small cymose flower clusters, secured with paper tape to archival board. A Royal Botanic Gardens label anchors its scientific provenance. Herbarium sheets like this one are primary documents of botanical survey, the physical substrate from which illustrated floras were produced — those engraved plate traditions linking Enlightenment natural history illustration directly to the sequential image culture from which comics descend.