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Rhynchosia erythrinoides Schltdl. & Cham.

· Collected March 1850, identified 1976

Rhynchosia erythrinoides Schltdl. & Cham.
This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. It shows dried stems, rounded leaves, and small dark seed pods of *Rhynchosia erythrinoides*, a leguminous vine, mounted on archival paper and held at the Natural History Museum, London (accession EM013715025). A handwritten field label records collection from the Isthmus of Panama in March 1850. A typed University of Toronto label documents its formal identification by John W. Grear in 1976 as part of a revision of New World *Rhynchosia*. No satirical, caricature, or printmaking content is present. Writing a political-cartoon wall label for this object would require wholesale fabrication, which this response declines to provide.

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