Here’s to the internet! While researching for my “Field Guide to Office Plants” booklet on Sansevieria, I found a digital copy of Plants of the coast of Coromandel: selected from drawings and descriptions presented to the hon. court of directors of the East India Company by William Roxburgh. (1795)
On page 184 is a beautiful drawing of the Sansevieria Roxburghiana — a Sansevieria native to India, that incidentally makes an appearance as an ingredient in a recipe for male virility in the Kama Sutra.