Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): flower and young fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.

Fruits of the ketaki are edible, the male flowers used in perfumery, the leaves for matting, the roots give a black dye and the plant is used for hedging

Pandanus species are known as screw-pines

Pandanus tectorius = (Pandanus odoratissimus)

[London (Fleet Street)] : [White, Cochrane & Co.], [1st June 1813]

1 print : aquatint with etching, with watercolour

Pandanus odoratissimus, The flower and young fruit of the keura. Jam.Forbes, Bombay,1769.

See further: J. Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, vol. 4, London, 1813, pp. 351-379

Wellcome Collection 20096i