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Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede

(13 Apr) 1636 - 1691 (15 Dec)




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Hendrik van Rheede was a Dutch naturalist employed in a military capacity by the Dutch East India Company. His Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693) was a collaborative work of dozens of Indian and Dutch scholars with knowledge of medicinal properties of the flora of southwest India. Linnaeus cited this work in Genera Plantarum (1737).


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1678. Van Rheede Tot Draakenstein, H.A., J. Van Dyck, J. Casearius, J. Van Someren and A. Syen. HORTUS INDICUS MALABARICUS, Continens Regni Malabarici apud Indos celeberrimi omnis generis Plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, [et] Bramanum Characteribus nominibusque expressas, Una cum Floribus, Fructibus & seminibus, naturali magnitudine a peritissimis pictoribus delineatas, & ad vivum exhibitas. Addita insuper accurata earundem descriptione, qua colores, odores, sapores, facultates, [et] praecipuae in Medicina vires exactissime demonstrantur. (p. 1): .Google Scholar
1678. Van Rheede Tot Draakenstein, H.A., A. Syen and J. Caesarius. Regni Malabarici apud Indos celerberrimi omnis generis Plantas rariores: Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, & Bramanum characteribus nominibusque expressas. (): .Google Scholar
1679. Van Rheede Tot Draakenstein, H.A., J. Caesarius, J. Commelin and A. Syen. De fructibus regni Malabarici apud Inos celeberrimi: Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, [et] Bramanum characteribus nominibusque expressis .... (): .Google Scholar
1769. Burmannus, J. and H.A. Van Rheede Tot Draakestein. Flora Malabarica, sive Index in omnes tomos horti Malabarici [i.e. the Hortus Indicus Malabaricus of H. A. van Rheede tot Draakestein], etc. (Index alter in omnes tomos Herbarii Amboinensis Cl. G. E. Rumphii, etc.).. (): .Google Scholar
1896. Van Rheede Tot Draakestein, H.A. and D.G. Dalgado. Vires Plantarum Malabaricarum, Ou Virtudes Das Plantas Do Malabar, Extrahidas Do "Hortus Indicus Malabaricus" ... Por D.G. Dalgado. (): .Google Scholar


1911. Van Rheede, H.A.. "Memoir written in the year 1677 a. d. by Hendrik Adriaan Van Rheede, commandeur of the Malabar, Canara and Wingurla Coast, for his successor". Officieel afschrift van het corspronkelijk ["sic"] gedenkschrift geschreven in 1677 ... [Voorwoord door A.J. Van der Burg.].. (): .Google Scholar
1911. Van Rheede, H.A.. Officieel afschrift:. (): .Google Scholar
1977. Manilal, K. S., C. R. Suresh and V. V. Sivarajan. A Reinvestigation of the Plants Described in Rheede's "Hortus Malabaricus": An Introductory Report. Taxon (5/6): 549-550.Google Scholar
1978. Tirvengadum, D. D.. Re-Establishment of Genus Catunaregam Wolf (Rubiaceae): A Contribution Towards the Plants Described in Rheede's "Hortus Malabaricus". Taxon (5/6): 513-517.Google Scholar
1979. Majumdar, N. C. and D. N. Guha Bakshi. A Few Linnaean Specific Names Typified by the Illustrations in Rheede's Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Taxon (4): 353-354.Google Scholar
1983. Suresh, C. R., M. Sivadasan and K. S. Manilal. A Commentary on Rheede's Aroids. Taxon (1): 126-132.Google Scholar
1983. Tirvengadum, D. D.. Re-Establishment of the Genus Benkara Adanson (Rubiaceae): Second Contribution Towards the Plants Described in Rheede's "Hortus Malabaricus". Taxon (3): 436-441.Google Scholar