A plant (Acalypha paniculata): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

Date:
[1685]
Reference:
16000i
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[Amsterdam], [1685]

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1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.1 x 43.6 cm

Lettering

Patsjotti Lat: ... Mal: ... Brah: ... Arab: Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. M. Holmes: "Acalypha paniculata 151"

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 16000i

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