A plant related to the clove tree (Eugenia species): flowering and fruiting stem and separate flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.

Date:
[1685]
Reference:
16013i
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[Amsterdam], [1685]

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1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.0 x 43.0 cm

Lettering

Bellútta-Kannelì Lat: ... Mal: Davì-Bedusì ... Brah: ... Arab: Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Syzygium zeylanicum DC. Myrtaceae 67"

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 16013i

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