Kandel or Mangrove plant (Kandelia candel (L.) Druce): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.

[Amsterdam], [1686]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.1 x 41.1 cm

Tsjéru-Candel Lat. ... Mal. Candelò ... Bra. ... Arab. Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Kandelia Rheedei W. & A. Rhizophoraceae 65" Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet

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 16207i