South african botanical illustrator (1886-1961).
Millicent Franks (6 October 1886 Durban - 11 February 1961 Winchester) was a South African botanical illustrator. At the age of 15, in November 1901, she took up the position of botanical artist and assistant to John Medley Wood at the Natal Herbarium in Durban, and when Frieda Lauth left the herbarium in 1903, Franks was appointed as chief botanical artist. She produced most of the illustrations for volumes 3 to 6 of Wood's 'Natal Plants', also providing several illustrations for Rudolf Marloth's 'Flora of South Africa' (1913-1932). She collected and pressed some 370 plant specimens from Van