A plant (Guettarda speciosa): large leaf with superimposed flowering shoot and separate tree, inflorescense, flowers and fruit sections with seeds. Coloured line engraving.

Date:
[1683]
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15954i
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[Amsterdam], [1683]

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1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.4 x 43.7 cm

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Ráva-pù. lat. ... mal. Cadámba. ... bra. ... Arab. Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Guettarda speciosa Linn. Rubiaceae 84"

References note

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

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Wellcome Collection 15954i

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