COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09960
Record number:
09960-19
JCB call number:
E714 F426h
Image title:
Inga Siliquis longissimis, vulgò Pacai.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre Giffart]
Image date:
1725
Image function:
plate XIX [19]; part 2, following p. [76]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
21.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
15 cm.
Page dimension height:
24.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Branch of the Inga or Pacai plant with its leaves, flowers, and fruit or pod.
Source creator:
Feuillée, Louis, 1660-1732
Source Title:
[Journal des observations physiques, mathématiques et botaniques. Selections] Histoire des plantes medecinales qui sont le plus en usage aux royaumes de l'Amerique meridionale, du Perou & du Chily, composée sur les lieux par ordre du Roy, dans les années 1709. 1710. & 1711.
Source place of publication:
[A Paris]
Source publisher:
[rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre Giffart]
Source date:
1725
notes:
This is probably Inga edulis, a leguminous tree native to the humid American tropics. Its fruit is called the ice cream bean.Feuillée, a member of the order of Minims, worked with Jacques Cassini as a hydrographer and later made trips using his knowledge of currents, astronomy, and botany to the Caribbean, Peru, and Chile.Detached copy from v. 2 and [3] of the author's Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, Paris, 1714-1725. Imprint for this part taken from the title page of vol. [3] of the author's Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques. Paris, 1725.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Botany--South America
Subject headings:
Natural history--South America
Subject headings:
Medicinal plants
Subject headings:
Inga (Plants)
Inga Siliquis longissimis, vulgò Pacai.
