A plant (Ardisia solanacea): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers, fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.

[Amsterdam], [1685]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.0 x 42.7 cm

Káka Njara ... ... Title transcribed in Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Ardisia solanacea Roxb. Myrsinaceae 100"

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 16037i