Piper melastomoides Schltdl. & Cham.

This is a herbarium specimen sheet, not a cartoon or caricature, and cannot honestly be presented as one. The image shows pressed, dried leaves and stem of *Piper melastomoides*, a pepper-family plant collected in Mexico during the Schiede & Deppe expedition. It bears manuscript annotations, printed type labels, a color-calibration chart, and a centimeter scale—standard natural-history documentation. No satirical figures, printmaking tradition, or caricature content is present. Fabricating a wall label attributing comic or political meaning to a botanical syntype would misrepresent both the object and the history of print satire. The piece belongs in a natural-history or history-of-science exhibition, not a caricature gallery.