Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 58436 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Derris elliptica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malaysia | TDWG Region | Malaysia | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | Malaya | ||
| Uses | RootUse: VERTEBRATE POISONS User: Man | TDWG use | VERTEBRATE POISONS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | s.n. | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1983 | Donor Notes | Leach & Son Macclesfield Date: 24/04/1924x0Dx0AWray Lx0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Leach & Son Macclesfield, see correspondence on letter file Sample includes bottle of Tubaine poison, crystals of Tubain (purified) and Tubain (crude) Opuscular source: From Pharm Journ 3.7.1886 - one of the tuba plants which has been iden, tified as D.elliptica. The root of this plant is one deserving chemical and physiological investigation. It is chiefly used by the natives for throwing into streams etc for poisoning fish, the root being pounded and thrown into the water This causes the f, ish to rise to the surface where they are netted or speared. A decocotion of the root of this plant is stated by Mr Oxley to afford the best remedy known to him for killing the insect that infects the leaves of the nutmeg tree and causes them to turn yell, ow. The root has an extremely persistent acrid taste; it would be valuable as an insecticide. Indeed this use of it has been suggest in the Kew Gardens Report 1877 p.43. Tuba root is also an ingredient in the Ipoh poison used by the Malays for tipping the, ir arrows. | ||||