Indian Snakeroot or Java Devilpepper (Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Kurz): flowering and fruiting branches, root, inflorescence and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
- Date:
- [1686]
- Reference:
- 16261i
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Description
The root of Rauvolfia serpentina contains the drug reserpine and the fruits are used for inks and dyes
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.2 x 41.3 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Tsjovánna-Amel-Podi Lat. ... Mal. ... Arab.
Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Rauwolfia serpentina Bth. Apocynaceae 106"
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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16261i
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