Arrowroot - Specimen details

Arrowroot - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 29522

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Plant Name 170.03 MARANTACEAE Maranta arundinacea Entry Book Number 39.1899
Artefact Name Arrowroot Vernacular Name
Iso Country Nigeria TDWG Region Nigeria
Parts Held Arrowroot Geography Description Nigeria, Old Calabar, West Tropical Africa, Africa
Uses ArrowrootUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
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Donor Holland JH Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
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Collection Notes Collection Date
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Notes: Label source: Prepared with rainwater. Report on the samples of Arrowroot prepared at Old Calabar by Dr JH Holland One prepared with spring water and the other with rainwater. Mr LD Hawser (?) Dowgate Park (?) Upper Thames Street EC. Both samples we ?c, olor especially in jelly where they should be of a ? ? almost colourless. Both are thin in jelly and do not dissolve completely. Of the two we think that the one irrigated with spring water to be possibly most unsatisfactory. Both seem to require refining, .... and both seem to have been artificially or kiln dried where as we venture a suggestion that they might be better if sun or air dried. So that you yourselves may form an independent judgement we send you a sample of a about the lowest grade commercial, quality (other than for manufactured goods such as coco and Cattle (?) spice) that is obtainable in the market. And also a sample of the highest grade, a ? ? ..We think if you make jellies of these and jellies of the other by ? the paste with cold water, and then adding boiling water you will see plainly that our objection is well founded. We believe that in Bermuda, which as no doubt you are aware provides the finest description (?) of arrowroot. The starch is washed from the comminuted tubes invariably, with rainwater. We might add that after the tubes are first washed and deprived of their scales all discoloured and defective portions are removed naturally this can be done only by hand. Faithfully yours Mr Hawser (?)

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