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Palmae - Daemonorops hystrix - Daemonorops hirsutus From: Rumphia, sive commentationes botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae orientalis, … by Carl Ludwig Blume. Leiden, etc., 1835-1848, volume 2, plate 135. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 262 x 425 mm). Text missing. € 100
Magnificent plates of the flora of the East Indies. The title refers to Georg
Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius). Blume saw himself as continuing Rumpf’s pioneering
work and indeed Blume was given the cognomen ‘Rumphius’ as his spiritual
disciple.* Great flower books p. 50; Nissen BBI 178; Stafleu & Cowan 566.
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