Bastard Teak or Flame of the Forest (Butea monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze): leaf cluster, inflorescence and dissected flower. Coloured line engraving.

Bastard Teak is known locally in India as dhak or palas

The gum of Bastard Teak (Bengal kino) is used as an astringent, the seed-oil (muduga oil) as a vermifuge, the flowers give a red dye (tisso flowers), the leaves are used as plates, the bark for cordage and sails and the timber for charcoal

[Amsterdam], [1686]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.4 x 41.4 cm

Pláso Lat. ... Mal. Palasù ... Bra. ... Arab. Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Butea frondosa Roxb. 57"

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 16111i