Henry Noltie’s ‘Flora Indica: Recovering Lost Stories from Kew’s Indian Drawings’ | These flowers have a backstory
Deep in the Kew Gardens archive some years ago, Henry Noltie found a drawing that had been cut in half. It was a large watercolour of a salak palm (Salacca zalacca). He didn’t think he’d ever find the other half, but months later, it turned up mounted on a herbarium sheet in a specimen cupboard, where it…