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From the exhibition

Stachytarpheta gesnerioides Cham.

· Collected 1891

Stachytarpheta gesnerioides Cham.
This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. The sheet displays a dried plant — *Stachytarpheta gesnerioides* Cham., a verbena-family herb — mounted on archival paper with a color calibration strip, institutional barcode, and a partially legible handwritten collection label. It belongs to the tradition of scientific natural history documentation, not print satire. No wall label for a caricature exhibition can be accurately written for this object. To fabricate satirical content, figures, or printmaking technique for what is plainly a Kew Gardens herbarium sheet would be false. The item should be catalogued under botanical history, not comic art heritage.

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