This famous copperplate engraving stems from Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's seminal 1596 travel book, Itinerario, which revealed key Portuguese trade routes and natural histories of the East Indies to northern Europe. The illustration highlights the 'Arbore triste' (Night-flowering jasmine, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis), depicting the tree both by day ('de dia') stripped of its blossoms and by night ('de noite') fully in bloom. Surrounding plants include pepper vines ('Pim.ta Peeper') and betel palm nuts ('Arecca' or 'Faufel') along with betel leaf ('Bettele'). The scene provides a rare sixteenth-century visual record of everyday agricultural life in Goa, India. Local villagers are shown gathering fallen night-blossoms from the courtyard floor, tending zebu cattle, carrying water pots, and preparing betel nut (paan) in the foreground. Latin and Dutch inscriptions across the bottom margin describe the remarkable botanical cycle of the tree, which loses its fragrant flowers at sunrise and blooms again at sunset.