East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.

The local Indian name for Malabar Kino is Vengai Padauk

The gum of Malabar Kino is used as an astringent and the timber is used for construction and furniture

[Amsterdam], [1686]

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 33.6 x 41.6 cm

Kariǹ-Tagerà Lat. ... Mal. Titi ... Bra. ... Arab. Title transcribed in Nagari, Malayalam, Arabic and Roman alphabet Lettering is inscribed on print in blue ink by E. Holmes: "Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. 57"

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 16187i