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Hortus Malabaricus was compiled over a period of nearly 30 years and published in Amsterdam during 1678–1703. [4] The book was conceived by Hendrik van Rheede, who was the Governor of Dutch Malabar at the time.
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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.
Frontispiece of the original Latin Hortus Malabaricus. As Hortus Malabaricus is a pre-Linnaean book, the scientific names of plants, equivalent to local Malayalam names, were not included. Since voucher specimens for the book are also not known to exist, the correct identity of many of the plants described was unclear and not verifiable to ...
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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 .
The attached library boasts of a copy of the first book printed in India - Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India (1563) by Garcia de Orta. Besides the Hortus Malabaricus (The Gardens of Malabar) by Hendrik van Rheede from 1678, the library contains a compendium of botanical literature and Indian and international journals on botany.