A species of Cassine: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and seeds and cross-section of fruit. Coloured line engraving.

[Amsterdam], [1685]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.2 x 43.3 cm

Parilì lat: ... mal: ... Arab: Title transcribed in Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Elaeodendron malabarica Denn. Celastraceae 47"

See further: K.S. Manilal (ed.), Botany and history of Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1980, ch. 2 by M. Fournier, pp. 6-21

J. Heniger, Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus, Rotterdam, 1986

Wellcome Collection 15995i