Kamala (a species of Mallotus): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

[Amsterdam], [1685]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 34.2 x 42.7 cm

Ponnagam̀ Lat: ... Mal: ... Arab: Title is transcribed in Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Rottlera tinctoria Roxb. 151"

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 16014i