Root - Specimen details

Root - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 58442

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Plant Name 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Clitoria ternatea Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Root Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Root Geography Description India
Uses RootUse: MEDICINES User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 26 F 4
Donor Date Donor Notes Dymock Drx0Dx0A
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Notes: Label source: The root is large, fleshy, branched and spreading often 1 inch or more in diameter, white, with an acrid bitter taste ; the root bark is soft and thick and easily separated. Under the microscope it is seen to consist of a thin walled cellul, ar tissue containing a little granular matter and here and there a few small starch cells. The central portion of the root is composed of very large dotted vessels, easily visible with the naked eye. The seeds are rather nmore than a 1/4 of an inch and re, semble vetch seeds ; they are mottled green and black. The testa is hard and contains 2 cotyledons made up of elongated thin walled cells and full of large starch granules ; they have an acrid bitter taste. The seeds exhausted with spirit yield a light br, own resin with an odour exactly like jallap. The medicinal uses of both root and seeds are noticed in the India Pharmacopoea and its supplement by Mr Moodeen Sheriff. I would suggest a trial of the resin.

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