Seed - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 56495 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Citrullus vulgaris | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seed | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Seed | Geography Description | Bengal | ||
| Uses | SeedUse: MEDICINES - Unspecified Medicinal Disorders User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Unspecified Medicinal Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 19 B 2 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/01/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: History and Uses etc - The seeds of the water melon are of interest as being one of the four cold cucurbitaceous seeds of the ancients, which, according to Guibourt were originally those of - Cucumis sativus L., C.melo L., C.citrullus DC.,, and Lagenaria vulgaris var clavata DC. But he remarks that in Paris the seeds of Cucurbita pepo Duch, and C.maxima (the potiron of the French ) are now subsituted for those of Cucumis citrullus and Lagenaria vulgaris. In Bombay the four cold courbitaceou, s seeds sold in bazaars are those of Cucumis utilissimus and C.melo and Citrullus vulgaris and Benincasa cerifera. These sseeds are in great demand, and are kept decorticated and ready for use. The natives always use them together, and consider them to be, cooling, diuretic, and strengthening. They fetch Rs 3/4 per pounds. | ||||