Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.

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[1686]
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16263i
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Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Oil from flowers of Cape jasmine is used in perfumery, the flowers are used to scent tea and the fruits give a yellow dye

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam], [1686]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.4 x 41.4 cm

Lettering

Tsjéru-Mullà Lat. ... Mal. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Gardenia florida L. Rubiaceae 84" Title transcribed in 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 16263i

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