Ambonese Herbal: Georgius Everhardus Rumphius

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, a seventeenth-century naturalist, meticulously collected information on Ambon Island’s native plants over five decades. His comprehensive reference, featuring over 800 original illustrations, describes more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and economic and medicinal uses. Native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, Ambonese, and sometimes Macassarese and Chinese are also recorded. E. M. Beekman’s introduction highlights the Herbal’s significance in tropical botanical literature and surveys Indonesian economic and medicinal plant uses.

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