- Spiral gingers (Plantin 1567) (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus) ◼
- Spiral gingers (Costus indicus). In Garcia de Orta, Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia, Charles de L'Écluse (Clusius) (translator), Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1567, p. 159 ◼
- Spiral gingers (Costus). In Matthias de L'Obel, Plantarvm sev stirpivm historia, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1576 (Wrocław, BUWr), p. 38 ◼
- Spiral gingers (Costus indicus). In Charles de L'Écluse (Clusius), Caroli Clvsii Atrebatis ... Exoticorvm Libri Decem Quibus Animalium, Plantarum ... historiae describuntur ..., Leiden, Antwerp: Franciscus (I) Raphelengius (printer), Officina Plantiniana (printer), August 1605 - December 1605 (Augsburg, SSB), p. 205 ◼