Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
- Date:
- [1686]
- Reference:
- 16113i
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Description
A decoction of the leaves of the Niepa Bark Tree is used to treat biliousness, as an emetic and purgative and as an insecticide
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.5 x 41.2 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Kariǹ-Njóta Lat. ... Mal. Locandì ... Bra. ... Arab.
Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Samadera indica Gaertn. Simarubaceae 40"
Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet
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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16113i
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Location Status Access Closed stores