Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.

Fruits of Java Plum/Jambolan are used to make preserves. The seeds are diuretic and used to reduce blood sugar in cases of diabetes.

Eugenia jambolana Lam. = (Syzygium jambolanum Dec.)

[Amsterdam], [1685]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.1 x 43.3 cm

Perin-Njara Lat. ... Mal. ... Brah. ... Arab. Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Eugenia jambolana Roxb. Myrtaceae. 67"

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 16041i