Tambaka, lamba, lemba babi or broad-leaved curculigo, Curculigo latifolia. Native of Amboyna (Ambon) and Poolo Pinang (Penang), introduced by John Allen in 1804. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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