Book ID: 83189
Beekman, E. M.
Rumphius' Orchids. Orchid Texts from ' The Ambonese Herbal' by Georgius E. Rumphius. Engl. translation. 2003. 15 b/w plates.LI, 172 p. 8vo. Hardcover.
Rumphius included in his seven-volume Ambonese Herbal the descriptions of thirty-six species of orchids found on the island of Ambon ineastern Indonesia. This English translation gathers all the partsof the Ambonese Herbal relating to orchids. Rumphius describeseach plant, names it according to pre-Linnean system of nomenclature,gives its locality, and details its medicinal and medicinal-uses.