Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.: branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and sections of inflorescence, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.

Date:
[1683]
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15933i
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Lannea coromandelica is also used for its timber and gum. It's old name was Odina wodier Roxb.

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1683]

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1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.3 x 44.0 cm

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Lettering

Calesani. lat. ... mal. ... bra. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Odina wodier Roxb. Anacardiaceae. 53." 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 15933i

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