Escobedia laevis Schltdl. & Cham.

This is a herbarium specimen sheet, not a cartoon or caricature. It shows pressed, dried plants of *Escobedia laevis* (Orobanchaceae) — a parasitic flowering plant native to Mexico — mounted on archival paper with white linen tape. Labels document a chain of scientific custody: a field collection by Schiede & Deppe in San Luis Potosí (1829), a British Museum determination (1930), and a Flora Mesoamericana annotation by Maarten Christenhusz (2009). A color-calibration target aids photographic reproduction. No satirical tradition applies here. This object belongs to the history of natural-history illustration and taxonomic botany — a discipline whose own visual conventions of precise specimen rendering fed, separately, into the diagrammatic clarity prized by early scientific publishing.