Fever bark (a species of Croton): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower, fruit and seeds and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.

[Amsterdam], [1685]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.3 x 42.8 cm

Pee-Tsjeroú-Ponnagam Lat: ... Mal: ... Arab: Title is transcribed in Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Croton 151"

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 16017i