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Aegle marmelos

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX75.
In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this species as a pretty large tree, which is native of the mountainous parts of the coast of Coromandel. It flowers during the hot season, and its fruit ripens after the rain. Roxburgh also reports an extract of the 'Asiat. Res. vol. 2. page 349': 'The fruit is nutritious, warm, cathartic; in taste delicious, in fragrance exquisite; its aperient, and detersive quality, and its efficacy in removing habitual costiveness, have been proved by constant experience. The mucus of the seed is for some purposes a very good cement.' The drawing has been inscribed 'Received from Leopard Man of War 30th November 1791' in an unknown hand.
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.579.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Flora
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Category

Glossary
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