Mangrove plant (Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit on ground. Coloured line engraving.

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[1686]
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16209i
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Mangrove plant (Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit on ground. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The wood of Aegiceras corniculatum is made into small articles and a decoction of the bark is used as fish poison

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1686]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.3 x 41.3 cm

Lettering

Pù-Candèl Lat. ... Mal. Candelò ... Bra. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Ægiceras majus Gaertn. 100" 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 16209i

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