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Hortus Malabaricus (transl. The Garden of Malabar) is a 17th-century Latin botanical treatise documenting the varieties and medicinal properties of the flora of the Malabar coast. This treatise was based on earlier documentation by Itty Achudan. It was compiled in 12 volumes by Hendrik van Rheede, the Governor of Dutch Malabar from 1669 to 1676 ...
The compilation and publication of Hortus Malabaricus is intimately connected with the history of India, politics of the 17th century Netherlands and the then social conditions of Malabar. It is also an important source of information, and the oldest printed, authentic document, on the evolution of Malayalam language and script.
Hortus Malabaricus ("Garden of Malabar") — 17th century flora published in the Netherlands. The authors, contributors, and botanical taxonomy relevant to the comprehensive treatise on the medicinal properties of the flora of Kerala , a state in India .
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein (13 April 1636 – 15 December 1691) was a Dutch military man and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company.Between 1669 and 1676 he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar at Kochi and employed twenty-five people on his book Hortus Malabaricus, describing 740 plants in the region.
In the article 'On the English edition of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus by K. S. Manilal' published in Current Science (November, 2005, Vol. 89, No. 10), H.Y.Mohan Ram states that the ethno-medical information presented in Hortus Malabaricus, was culled from palm leaf manuscripts by Itty Achudan, who dictated the material in Malayalam, which was then scrutinized by three Konkani Brahmanas ...
Of the 742 species mentioned in van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus, 432 are bred here. [1] Many rare endangered aquatic plants, 150 species of pteridophytes, more than 60 species of bryophytes, 52 species of fruit trees, 60 species of aromatic plants and many medicinal plants are protected in the botanical garden. [1]
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