Melastomaceae (I) : Tribus I. Microlicieae et Tribus II. Tibouchineae
A botanical monograph on Melastomaceae, the tribes Microlicieae and Tibouchineae, by Alfred Cogniaux, published in 1883 under Fleischer's imprint for specialist botanists and taxonomists. Its plates show whole flowering shrub sprigs beside magnified dissections of stamens, pistils, petals and seed capsules, each labelled with a species name and numbered figures in fine, even pen-and-ink lines on white paper. A designer could draw on the orderly grid of specimen sprigs and isolated botanical parts as a model for scientific diagrams and herbarium-style layouts.
