A plant (Flacourtia sepiaria): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.

Date:
[1685]
Reference:
16073i
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Runeala plum = Flacourtia cataphracta

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1685]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.6 x 42.2 cm

Lettering

Coúroú-Moelli ... Babuli-Canli ... ... Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Flacourtia sepiaria Roxb. Bixaceae 17" Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet

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 16073i

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