Root - Specimen details

Root - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 52214

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Plant Name 85.00 VALERIANACEAE Valeriana hardwickii Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Root Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Root Geography Description India, Bombay
Uses RootUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
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Donor India Museum Donor No
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Notes: Label source: This valerian has crooked roots about two inches long, and from a 1/4 inch in diam. of a dull brown colour, marked with transverse ridges, and thickly studded with circular prominent tubercles, to a few of which thick rootlets still remain, attached. The crown of the root is marked by a number of bracts; the lower end is blulnt; the root is very hard and tough, and the fractured surface greenish brown. Odour like valerian but much more powerful. Examined under the microscope the outer bar, k is seen to be composed of ten or twelve layers of compressed cells; within this is a starchy parenchyma, and next to it a cambium layer; within the cambium layer is a broken ring of vascular bundles, and lastlly, a starchy parenchyma thickly studded wit, h conglomerate masses of large cells, having greenish yellow contents of a resinous appearance. The drug is mostly used in Bombay as a perfume, but there can be little doubt that it would prove an efficient substitute for valerian.

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