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Tocoyena formosa (Cham. & Schltdl.) Schum
· Collected November 1849, Santarém, Pará, Brazil

This is not a cartoon or caricature — it is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen mounted on archival paper, collected by botanist Richard Spruce in the vicinity of Santarém, Province of Pará, Brazil, in November 1849. The sheet shows dried leaves and stem of *Tocoyena formosa*, a flowering shrub in the Rubiaceae family, accompanied by a color reference chart, metric rule, and a small envelope of detached floral fragments. No satirical tradition applies here. This specimen belongs to the natural history collection tradition of Humboldt-era Amazonian field botany, not the print satire lineage of Hogarth, Gillray, or Daumier.
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