Herbarium Type Specimen: *Heliotropium salicioides* Cham.

This is a pressed and mounted botanical herbarium sheet, not a satirical print. It shows a dried branch of Heliotropium salicioides Cham. (Boraginaceae), collected from dry hills near Villa de Arrayat, Province of Egypt [Brazil], by George Gardner. The sheet carries a color-calibration card, a metric rule, and handwritten collector's notes. A red label identifies it as a syntype specimen. No caricature tradition applies here. This object belongs to natural history documentation — the parallel universe of scientific illustration that, like print satire, democratized knowledge through reproducible images, but whose lineage runs through Ehret, the Florae rather than Hogarth or Gillray.