Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): tree bearing flowers and fruit. Coloured lithograph, 1812, after J. Forbes, 1780.

Fruits of the ketaki are edible, the male flowers used in perfumery, the leaves for matting, the roots give a black dye and the plant is used for hedging

Pandanus species are known as screw-pines

Pandanus tectorius = (Pandanus odoratissimus)

[London (Fleet Street)] : [White, Cochrane & Co.], [1st June 1813]

1 print : lithograph, with gouache

Pandanus odoratissimus. The keura tree, sketched from nature in Guzerat, 1780, copied on stone 1812 J.Forbes

See further: J. Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, vol. 4, London, 1813, pp. 351-379

Wellcome Collection 20099i