ABSTRACT
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein was a military man and a colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company and a naturalist. Between 1669 and 1676, he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar and employed twenty-five people for his book Hortus Malabaricus (1673), describing 740 plants in the region. He discussed Ceropegia for the first time and gave a drawing of C. candelabrum in his Hortus Malabaricus. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429061233/b79074a2-3107-481c-be01-5813705097c5/content/unfig10_1_C.jpg"/>
