Singapore rhododendron (Melastoma malabathricum L.): branch with flowers and fruit, flowering shoot and floral segments. Coloured line engraving.

[Amsterdam], [1683]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.3 x 43.7 cm

Kadalì. lat. ... mal. Nakéri, ... bra. ... Arab. Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alpabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Melastoma malabarica L. 68"

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 15947i