A plant (Canthium parviflorum) related to Ceylon boxwood: branch with flowers and fruits, separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

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[1685]
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16054i
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A plant (Canthium parviflorum) related to Ceylon boxwood: branch with flowers and fruits, separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Canthium Lam. = (Plectronia Gaertn. f.)

Ceylon boxwood = Canthium didymum

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[Amsterdam], [1685]

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1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.3 x 43.0 cm

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Kanden-kara Lat. ... Mal. ... Brah. ... Arab. Title is transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Canthium parviflorum Lam. Rubiaceae 84"

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 16054i

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